Treacherous Senate Immigration Bill Fails

The comprehensive immigration bill that Senators tried to ram down the throats of Americans has been defeated. It was a sweet victory for those who want border security & enforcement of illegal immigration laws.

The bill was concocted by a group of Senators who tried to by-pass the normal channels of bringing a bill before the Senate. Instead of writing a bill & sending it to a committee & sub-committee for review, debate & amendments & voting it out of committee to the full Senate for a vote, these Senators met in secret with illegal-immigration advocacy groups & hammered out a bill that was a mish-mash of amnesty & weak border controls. They then brought it before the full Senate & attempted to get the bill passed without review, debate or time enough to study it completely.

In effect, they tried to ram the bill through to passage before the American public became aware of what a travesty this bill was. They are reprehensible.