The immigration "reform" bill before Congress is a $2.5 trillion spending bill. Why so little coverage, debate

Question

This bill will affect American life over the long run far more than anything Muqtada al Sadr has to say or Iran reporting western spy networks or 8 more soldiers killed in Iraq or any of the other stories in the news today. So where's the news on a bill that will entitle 12 million illegal immigrants to social security and other social programs such as medicare that
Robert Rector of The Heritage Foundation on Monday told US senators will cost the government $2.5 trillion over and above what the low-income, 6th-grade educated immigrants will be able to pay into the system?

So is the idea to try to slip this bill in under the public radar as much as possible? Are the mainstream media in large part ignoring the story as an aid to the Democrats, who stand to gain 10 million new Democratic voters through this amnesty plan?

Answer 1

Lou Dobbs has been reporting this story for some time. Wake up, it's not just the democrats, it's the republicans too including the President. The dems want the potential votes and the republicans want the cheap labor. We get screwed, Americans. It seems it was a push to go through the Senate last week but now it's starting to draw some heat there. I doubt it will make it through the House of Representatives. Contact your representatives and let them know how you feel about the issue, I did.

Answer 2

The word 'pork' means, to politicians, the spending the other party does. By any fair definition of 'pork barrel spending', the Republicans were much more profligate when they were in charge of Congress. Bush is getting pretty desperate. He's destroyed his own credibility--nobody to blame but himself (or whoever wrote the 3x5 cards for him to read from). So he's ramping up the rhetoric. I'm glad the Democrats finally found their backbones. Bush vetoed the Iraq spending bill himself!

Answer 3

You are much too polite calling this unconstitutional, un-American, unfair to legal immigrants, short sighted, poorly written, dishonest abomination a "bill".

We must do everything in our power to prevent it from happening.

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Answer 4

the people seem to be getting shut out of being part of this one. I know that they are seeing plenty of opposition from people. they really seem to be trying to see how far they can go without the approval of the citizens. if they keep this crap up they may just find out!

Answer 5

For the same reason, they hide ( spp.gov ).
They have been hiding it since 2005.
Rush was warned not to talk about it.
Perhaps the others were also warned.

Answer 6

Shhhh...we're not supposed to know that. Now you have gone and spilled the beans!

Answer 7

You answered your own question good job (towards the end)!

Mitch
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