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In 84-15 vote, Senate moves forward on immigration reform

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Comprehensive immigration reform legislation passed a significant hurdle Tuesday when the Senate voted overwhelmingly to begin consideration of the lightning-rod bill.
Thirty Republicans, including Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), voted to take up the measure in the 84-15 vote, revealing a deep well of potential support.


The vote tally was a promising sign of bipartisanship and the legislation appeared to have strong momentum after Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) predicted Tuesday that immigration reform would become law by year’s end.


Many Republicans are pushing for an amendment sponsored by Cornyn that would require 100 percent monitoring capability and a 90 percent apprehension rate of illegal entrants along the Southern border before granting permanent legal status to millions of immigrants in the country illegally. Cornyn’s plan would also require tracking visa exits with biometric data at certain air and sea ports.



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I hope this bill moves past the debate process and passes onto the house. Its not perfect but its a step forward in dealing with our seriously flawed immigration policies that we have today.
 
Secure our border first.
 
Looking forward to the House rejecting this summarily.
 
The Senate is filled with cowards that wouldn't know the right thing if it kicked them in the balls. When Schumer comes out saying it's good, you know that we're ****ed.
 
Hopefully the house rejects this.There should be no amnesty,legalization,pathway to citizenship, dream act or any other form of amnesty. Enforcement measures can always be removed or neutered once those 12-20 million illegals have legal status, so there should be no compromise period.
 
Frankly I'm disappointed, but even with Rubio in there this is probably the best we could expect out of that idiot Reid's Senate.
 
You think a grand total of four states with mandatory e-verify laws is enough to curb illegal immigration? :lamo

Alabama does
Arizona does
Florida does
Georgia does
Indiana does
Louisiana does
Minnesota does
Mississippi does
North Carolina does
South Carolina does
Tennessee does
Utah pretty much does


Thats more than 4..
 
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I hope this bill moves past the debate process and passes onto the house. Its not perfect but its a step forward in dealing with our seriously flawed immigration policies that we have today.

The Senate only voted to allow the bill to be debated before it dies.

Did you hear Obama today lying to the American people again. Can't Obama go 24 hours without telling a lie ?

Obama said all illegal aliens (he didn't use the legal term illegal alien) that they would pay back taxes. It's a lie ! The bill says only those who were on the books who owed taxes. Not the ten or more million who weren't on the books. If you were in the country for ten or twenty years and getting paid in cash under the table, you don't owe a penny in back taxes.
 
Touche sir. But i still dont see how this would work and solve the problems. Simply just hire them and dont verify them...

That would be breaking the law, and make a company subject to heavy legal fines as well as bad PR.
 
That would be breaking the law, and make a company subject to heavy legal fines as well as bad PR.

Yea if they could ever find the illegal immigrants. But hey people are already breaking the law by hiring them even without E-verify.
 
Yea if they could ever find the illegal immigrants. But hey people are already breaking the law by hiring them even without E-verify.

Without E-verify, employers have plausible deniability. With it, they do not.
 
The senate can pat themselves on the back all they want. This bill has zero chance to get through the house.
 
The tea party occupation forces in the House will kill it. They're freaks with an electoral death wish
 
The senate can pat themselves on the back all they want. This bill has zero chance to get through the house.

And bye bye GOP for the next three election cycles. This is good news.
 
Some seem to think this has already passed in the Senate, but there's a long way to go before that might occur...
 
A Harvard economist George Borjas' study shows...
Economists have long known that immigration redistributes income in the receiving society. Although immigration makes
the aggregate economy larger, the actual net benefit accruing to natives is small, equal to an estimated two-tenths of 1 per
cent of GDP. There is little evidence indicating that immigration (legal and/or illegal) creates large net gains for native-born
Americans.

Even though the overall net impact on natives is small, this does not mean that the wage losses suffered by some natives or
the income gains accruing to other natives are not substantial. Some groups of workers face a great deal of competition from
immigrants. These workers are primarily, but by no means exclusively, at the bottom end of the skill distribution, doing low-
wage jobs that require modest levels of education. Such workers make up a significant share of the nation’s working poor.
The biggest winners from immigration are owners of businesses that employ a lot of immigrant labor and other users of
immigrant labor. The other big winners are the immigrants themselves.

Illegal immigration continues to vex the public and policymakers. Illegal immigrants have clearly benefited by living and
working in the United States. Many business owners and users of immigrant labor have also benefited by having access to
their labor. But some native-born Americans have also lost, and these losers likely include a disproportionate number of the
poorest Americans.
http://cis.org/sites/cis.org/files/borjas-economics.pdf

All this will do is increase profits for business owners, and increase the burden on taxpayers, while excluding taxpayers from governmental assistance, providing immigrants an unfair advantage to start businesses, and keep America's poor, poor.

Yeah, this sounds GREAT! Break out the welcome mat!
 
Its very impressive that more than 80 Senators voted for this.

Looks like the House will have to deal with this issue after all.
 
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