The Washington Times has this online report about an identity fraud ring that was set and ready to roll the minute the Senate immigration bill passed. Fraud in immigration is nothing new. According to the report, "a quarter of approved applications were later deemed fraudulent" from persons granted amnesty under the 1986 immigration bill which did nothing to stem the tide of illegals entering the United States.
While the fraud ring in the report above was broken up, who knows how many more are out there? No wonder the current Senate bill is in such trouble. No one believes that it will do anything to solve the problem.
The bill faces another 60 vote hurdle Thursday and news reports once again show it weakening.
What's in the Bill?
The latest version of the bill has become a "moving target" according to SC Senator Jim DeMint (R). In this video, taken from a speech he delivered on the Senate Floor Wednesday he described how the Senate was being asked to consider massive amendments, running to hundreds of pages that no Senator, other than perhaps the bill's authors, had actually read. Changes have been made that delete amendments that Senators had agreed on in the previous version of the bill.
Brian Darling at the Heritage Foundation described this bizzare Senate process this way: "Someone once said not to watch how sausage or legislation are made. Today especially I prefer to be at the sausage factory.As if the Senate floor situation could get any worse, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's staff is now rewriting the Clay Pigeon amendment behind closed doors. It is the intent of the Majority Leader to bring this new unread Amendment up without the Republicans seeing the language. Yesterday Senator Reid did not have his massive 373 page amendment ready when he started debate on it and mistakes were made in the initial drafting. This fact was not discovered until Republicans objected to waiving the reading of the bill, and the Senate Clerk had nothing to read."
"The American people have said loud and clear that this is an incredibly important issue to them. For the Senate to move ahead anyway using this process, railroading me and other critics of the bill and blocking our rights as senators to represent our constituents, is disgraceful," said Sen. David Vitter, R-La.
"I think this clay pigeon is becoming a dead duck," said Sen. Ben Nelson, Nebraska Democrat.
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