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June 12, 2007 | Comments: (0)

Bush, Kennedy aren't giving up on immigration legislation

For those who didn't believe me when I said the immigration bill wasn't dead, despite headlines to the contrary in all the major papers, well, today's headlines are quite different.

See "Bush and Kennedy talk compromise over Senate Immigration bill."
Here's an excerpt from that story filed to Axcess News.

Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) said, "Like the president, many of us are very determined to get the job done and get it done now." Kennedy is one the lead Democrats trying to push through immigration reform and may be key in negotiating compromise in order to win over enough Senate votes to pass the measure."

Anytime you see President Bush and Senator Kennedy practically hugging each other you know something is afoot.

Most of the focus of today's news is on reaching a compromise on the Z Visa, which would give those with illegal immigrant status a second chance at becoming a U.S. citizen.

However, while there is still lots of heat around this issue, if a compromise is reached over that, you can bet the H-1B visa increase will sail through as part of the bill with little opposition.

Stay tuned.

Posted by Ephraim Schwartz on June 12, 2007 02:05 PM


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Ted Kennedy was a strong supporter of the 1965 Hart-Celler Act signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson which dramatically changed US immigration policy.

This is what Ted Kennedy said about the 1965 bill.

"The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs."

Kennedy is now the chair of the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Citizenship, and remains a strong advocate for immigrants, both documented and undocumented

About the same time there wasn't enough room for citizens to have children.

The Unacknowledged Holocaust


Back in the 60’s the Federal Government came into the public schools and brainwashed us as little children with the message that the children we were about to have were unwanted because the population was rising so fast. They launched a program called Family Planning. They pushed birth control pills. I think you and I now both know that you only have to trick people for their few child bearing years and there is no going back.

Many of us never had a say.

I am the result of two living cells. One from each of my parents. They are the result of two living cells, one from each of their parents. I wasn't just born. I am a continuation of life. I am a living thing that reaches back into time perhaps 400 million years and the result of billions of joining of pairs of cells. It is possible that if you were to follow my cells back to my parent’s cells and beyond that my family tree touches every living thing here on earth. That is if we limit ourselves to believing life was created here on earth. If it rained down from the immensity of the universe it could reach back into that immensity of time and space, and who knows what relationships and who knows what species.

At least until I came up against the Federal Government and their plan to control the population.

I have seen the Federal Government do little else to control the population.

The open border, United States laws only apply to some, is a serious slap in the face. No, not a slap in the face, it reaches well beyond that. Maybe back to the beginning of time and stretch to the bounds of the universe.

Posted by: Carson at June 12, 2007 05:15 PM

Mr. Schwartz ---

What a fascinating set of navel gazers and zealots you've acquired as readers lately. Between this and the rabid comments on your recent Apple entry, which questioned everything from your intelligence to your journalistic credibility, I think this site needs a new option, perhaps called COMMENT DISPLAYED? or something similar.

I'd be clicking the NO button, thank you very much.

Posted by: Voice of Reason at June 13, 2007 11:27 AM

I would like to suggest that this current atmosphere of America losing jobs to overseas, and losing jobs to cheaper workers coming in, is a "Clear and Present Danger to the Security of the United States".

However, I feel better, but this will probably get nowhere.

Jim

Posted by: Jim at June 13, 2007 11:53 AM

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