The Senate yesterday approved immediately spending nearly $2 billion to stop illegal immigration, the largest such infusion of emergency cash for the effort in recent years.
"Porous borders are a threat to our national security, and the Senate has acted today to provide vital funding that will increase our border defenses "Majority Leader Bill Frist, Tennessee Republican, said after the vote
This bill, if approved by the House, would make Bush's guest worker program more difficult to pass through Congress.
The 59-39 vote came one day after Mr. Bush appeared to endorse the Senate proposal that would give many illegal aliens already in the country a path to citizenship.
Senator Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, asked Mr. Bush about Bush's "guest worker program" a.k.a. Hagel-Martinez proposal if he defined "amnesty" as a program that does not force the illegals leave the country before applying for citizenship.
According to Mr. Graham, Bush's reply was, "you don't want me to answer that question."
While this is a good step towards securing our borders and making our government finally realize that there is actually a problem.
Of course to define "problem".
Our [American people] definition of "problem" is we see what happens on the grassroots level.
Their [US government] definition of "problem" whatever benefits them at the time.
The last demonstration by illegal aliens basically showed the US government and the citizens of United States how big the problem actually is and this upcoming "walkout" happening on May 1, 2006 may further visually demonstrate how out of hand the problem has gotten.
A similar analogy would be when you see a mouse in your house, you may only think that there is one or two mice. In actuality, there's a whole nest hiding underneath the house. Most people do not worry too extensively about one or two mice, however, left alone, you wind up with a population that even your cat is afraid to handle.
We, the citizens of the United States, need to continue to keep the pressure on our government to send a message that we will not tolerate the selling out of America any longer.
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