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ORIGINAL: cyberdude611

The third attempt to pass Comprehensive Immigration Reform has failed in the Senate. By a vote of 46 to 53, the Senate failed by 14 votes to acquire the 60 aye votes needed to cut off debate and send the bill to the floor for a final vote.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8Q1TBO80&show_article=1

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ORIGINAL: caitlyn

90% of Americans opposed this bill. By the time the 2008 vote comes around, 90% of Americans will not remember this bill ever existed.

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ORIGINAL: caitlyn

90% of Americans opposed this bill. By the time the 2008 vote comes around, 90% of Americans will not remember this bill ever existed.

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ORIGINAL: Lockit

I am very glad this bill didn't make it.  I had to go to social services for my disabled adult son.  We were the only non Hispanics there and everyone working the front desk had to speak Spanish.  I was the worst dressed person there and I had far less gold on.  I have no beef with the Hispanic people and had I been born in Mexico, I might be crossing that boarder too... seeing as though it was allowed for so long and there are those amnesty bills that do get passed every twenty years or so.  But as one who is now forced to ask the tax payers to pay for the mistakes the hospital made in creating my son's disability, with no recourse because we have medical malpractice caps no law firm will take on, I want to lessen the burden on the tax payers if I can. 

I do not get enough money to support my son and although I am disabled, I do not live on tax payer funds.  I cannot get medical and that is another story.  The clinic I have to go to was created for migrant workers (not American poor) and is mostly funded by tax payers.  There I am begging for help with medications and watching a man who can speak no English with a Medicaid card with a long list of names, get it.  Children born in America to illegal residents.

I grew up in California and watched as an undeclared war of ‘take back our land’ was allowed and the influx of illegal immigrants took over.  I have watched as housing developers gave jobs away and the American construction workers end up needing the services offered to the illegals in social benefits, be denied them.  We already take care of the schooling, medical and living expenses of many of the children of these illegals and their parents get benefits in clinics created for them.  Enough is enough.

I have written letters and made calls to all sorts of people, media, agencies and the government trying to tell what happened to the people I used to advocate for and in my son’s situation and found that many were focused on the needs of the illegal immigrants and had no time for the issues of Americans.  No one wants to talk about certain things or stop certain things and so they lay the burden on the tax payer.

It is time for change and we the people must insist on that change, but I have found few who will do much of anything but complain.  We let it go for far too long... now it is imperative that we do something or there won't be much to fight for or any way to fight for it.

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ORIGINAL: caitlyn

90% of Americans opposed this bill. By the time the 2008 vote comes around, 90% of Americans will not remember this bill ever existed.

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

I just got an e-mail from Bay Buchanan, Pat's sister.
She said that just before the vote Senators Lindsey Graham and Arlen Spector were urging their colleagues not to pay attention to the overwhelming number of phone calls from their constituents.
And get this, Senator Spector said that "We can't let *PUBLIC OPINION* affect how the Senate votes!"
Oh? What an *ASSHOLE!*
How out-of -touch is He with The People to be making such a statement?
Hopefully, the good People of Pennsylvania will give him the Bum's Rush when *HE* comes up for re-election!