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Illegal Immigration Watch: GOP Offers Senate Immigration Bill Change – Go Home First

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A Mexican national peers through the US Mexico border wall 10 June 2007 in San Ysidro, California. Backers of US immigration reform vowed Sunday to hustle deeply divisive legislation through the Senate this week to document 12 million illegal aliens while beefing up border security.

GOP Backers Offer Immigration Bill Change

Provision Would Require Illegal Residents to Return Home to Gain Legal Status

With a crucial test vote scheduled for today, Republican supporters of a sweeping immigration bill threw their weight yesterday behind a significant change to the legislation that would force illegal immigrants to return to their home countries to apply for legal status.

The change could rattle the delicate bipartisan coalition that forged the Senate’s immigration overhaul, but supporters say it may be necessary to pull in enough Republican votes to secure passage by week’s end. The bill’s authors will have to muster 60 votes today to bring it back up for consideration. The legislation would then have to clear potential amendments before a showdown Thursday over whether to cut off debate and vote on final passage Friday.

This “touchback” requirement is a JOKE because the people here illegally would remain anonymous, continue to live and work here and would simply not apply for a “Z” Visa.  Their children would continue to be American citizens.

Flap doubts that the GOP caucus would ignore the GOP base of voters to approve this provision so as to make the entire bill acceptable.

The American voters overwhelmingly do NOT support this bill.

The latest Rasmussen Poll is here:

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The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 22% of American voters currently favor the legislation. That’s down a point from 23% a couple of weeks ago and down from 26% when the debate in the Senate began. Fifty percent (50%) oppose the Senate bill while 28% are not sure.

Among the public, there is a bi-partisan lack of enthusiasm for the Senate bill. It is supported by 22% of Republicans, 23% of Democrats, and 22% of those not affiliated with either major party. It is opposed by 52% of Republicans, 50% of Democrats, and 48% of unaffiliateds.

Will this GOP “touchback” requirement be a poison pill for the Democrats? Or will they pass along the bill to the House and amend it in conference later?

The GOP base does NOT trust the Republican sponsors of this bill.

It would best to KILL this bill and focus on enforcing existing law and bolstering border security FIRST.

We will know soon whether there are sufficient GOP votes to provide cloture.

Stay tuned…….

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