Senate Rewards Lawbreakers

My friend John Burits sent me this Email concerning the Senate Amnesty Immigration Bill which passed yesterday:

The US Senate has ground the views of the founding fathers into the dustwith their vote on amnesty for millions of criminal aliens.They are ordering mammon to fatten the bellies of insatiate pestilentialmendicants.Woe betide our country while these vain venal hucksters sit in her countinghouse.These senators are mean crass destructive uncaring senseless men, who haveturned their backs on the people they represent.
John Burtis

"They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men."-- John Adams (Novanglus No. 7, 6 March 1775)Reference: Papers of John Adams, Taylor, ed., vol. 2 (314)

It does seem they were bending over backwards not to offend illegals while trying to "appear" to appease legal Americans. Also interesting is the Senators who voted against the Bill are up for reelection this year.

Here's Ollie North's view:

Regrettably, the bill passed by the Senate this week repeats many of the mistakes of the ‘80's -- even replicating some of the original language. The Heritage Foundation estimates that if the current Senate Bill became law, it would permit “103 million persons to legally immigrate to the U.S. over the next 20 years -- fully one-third of the current population of the United States .”
In the aftermath of the Senate vote, some members in both parties are now saying that there is scant hope for getting any real reform before the 2008 elections.

The Washington Times puts it bluntly Senate OKs citizenship for illegal aliens:

The Senate yesterday easily approved an immigration bill that allows 10 million illegal aliens to become citizens, doubles the flow of legal immigration each year and will cost U.S. taxpayers an estimated $54 billion over the next 10 years. The leaders of both parties hailed the 62-36 passage as a historic success. Majority Leader Bill Frist said the vote represented the "very best" of the Senate.

He's right, and their best ain't much!