There goes the neighborhood.

"Boy, I'd say we pulled a fast one on those suckers.. err
voters..didn't we?"

With a dose of good cheer and laughter, a collection of republicans and democrats saw fit to agree to pass the "Selling Our Nation Down the River for Votes" Act.

Yes, dear readers, what has been described as a "done deal" has gone through without so much as peep of opposition or debate!:

Bipartisan immigration deal reached

Lawmakers from both parties and the Bush administration forge compromise on comprehensive overhaul.

By DENA BUNIS

The Orange County Register

WASHINGTON The Senate is poised to begin debate on the most sweeping immigration overhaul in decades after a bipartisan group of lawmakers announced they have agreed on a deal. Their draft would provide a way for millions of undocumented immigrants to come forward and live and work legally in the United States.

"Politics is the art of the possible, and the agreement we just reached is the best possible chance we will have in years to secure our borders, bring millions of people out of the shadows and into the sunshine of America,'' Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said Thursay. Kennedy, flanked by two other Democrats, seven Republicans and two Bush cabinet secretaries, outlined a plan that has created a most unlikely political coalition.

Lesson Number One:

ANYTHING---I MEAN ANYTHING that has Ted "The Swimmer (*hic) Kennedy's stamp of approval has got to be bad for America.

The "best possible chance to secure our borders?"

How so? No fence, no nothing?

Will the problems of illegal immigration actually be solved, just with a stroke of Bush's pen??

Was the problem solved during the 1980s when President Reagan, in one of the few mistakes he made as president, allowed amnesty for hundreds of thousands of illegals? Was the flood of illegal immigration stemmed at that time, or in the future?

Here are some illegal immigration fun facts to chew on:

• Immigrants account for 11.5 percent of the total population, the highest percentage in 70 years. If current trends continue, by the end of this decade the immigrant share of the total population will surpass the all time high of 14.8 percent reached in 1890.

Immigration has become the determinate factor in population growth. The arrival of 1.5 million immigrants each year, coupled with 750,000 births to immigrant women annually, means that immigration policy is adding over two million people to the U.S. population each year, accounting for at least two-thirds of U.S. population growth.

Now tell me we're going to be able to enforce those laws, on that size of a population, when our linguini-spined politicians don't have the cajones to enforce the laws we already have!

Tony Snow was on Rush the other day, and claimed that this bill would be a good deal for Republicans in the long run, saying that the illegals from Mexico are Roman Catholic, and therefore anti-abortion; and that they would ultimately be Republican voters.

Mr. Snow--God love ya BUT THAT's NOT THE FRIGGEN ISSUE!!!

I couldn't give a damn if every friggen illegal immigrant from Mexico would flood the border in November of '08 to vote Republican! The issue is that they don't have business being here--PERIOD, much less voting in our elections, whether they vote democrat or republican.

What part of the word, ILLEGAL don't you understand, Mr. Snow and Mr. Bush??

This measure supposedly makes an illegal pay a $5,000 fine (around half their yearly income), pay theirs and their family's fare back to Mexico, and wait in Mexico until their paperwork is in order to return to the States, which could take years.

Yeah--like that's really gonna happen. Like millions of illegal aliens are actually going to comply. And like we'll be able to do anything about it if they don't.

"But Leo--" you say, "There's no way we can round up all those people...and...we needed new laws to control the border!"

We don't need new laws to control the border. We don't need new laws to deal with illegal immigration. What we need are some politicians who actually have the cajones to enforce the laws we currently have!

While enforcing the laws against illegal immigration is admittedly a daunting task, that still does not make it right to throw ones hands up in capitulation, in effect, screaming "UNCLE!" and hoping for the best.

"But Leo--" you say, "Those poor, hardworking illegal immigrants come here to do the job Americans won't do! They're indispensable to the American economy! Without them, our economy will collapse!"

Hmmm... sounds suspiciously like what Southern plantation owners used to say about slaves, doesn't it?

And let's face it, folks... at average earnings rate rarely exceeding $12,o00 per year, are they really making any more than slave wages in the first place?

Is a cheap head of lettuce really worth promulgating slavery in the 21st century?

At the very least, this is a cop out and a complete dereliction of our government's responsibility to defend our borders, which under this measure will continue to be so porous as to make a sieve look like a hunk of cement.

Oh,, and did I mention that taxpayers will be funding their education, as well, WHILE THEY ARE HERE ILLEGALLY!

The DREAM Act would eliminate this provision and allow illegal alien college and university students to be eligible for in-state tuition without affording out-of-state citizen students the same opportunity. Thus, the University of Alabama could offer in-state tuition to illegal alien students while requiring citizens residing in Mississippi to pay the much higher out-of-state tuition rates.

Allowing all illegal aliens enrolled in college to receive in-state tuition rates means that while American citizens from 49 other states have to pay out-of-state tuition rates to send their kids to [*S5032] UVA, people who have illegally immigrated to this country might not. Out-of-state tuition rates range from 2 to 3 ½ times the in-state resident tuition rate.

Well...isn't that special?

I wonder if the 9/11 terrorists, many of whom were on student visas, would now have been eligible to have their flight school paid for them by taxpayer-financed student loans and grants?

This is not a good day to be a republican, a democrat, or even an American.

When President Bush signs this travesty into law, the United States, as a sovereign nation with sovereign borders, will have ceased to exist.

Go ahead, Ted Kennedy. Go ahead, President Bush. Laugh now, while you can.

Because you certainly won't be laughing at the hornet's nest you'll have stirred up at the polls, when you'll be given the bum's rush by some awfully angry voters with very long memories.