So they just walk in and use their second cousin's ID just like they do now.

Grassley's amendment was beaten back 10-13 on a party-line vote.

SHOCKING

Yup, just immigrants. Because people like my parents and millions of other hard-working people who left their homes and families to help build this country are a bunch of fraudsters.

Fark you republicans. I hope you all DIAF and then burn in hell.

Gwendolyn: Wait can illegals even get driver's licenses?


In many states, yes, they can.

// I think Grassley wants a universal govt issued ID card proving you are acceptable to be signed up for the private industry insurance plans...

// almost there, almost there...

Is there some reason a simple health card wouldn't work?

Diogenes
It's feel-good legislation to satisfy the conservatives' home constituencies. It accomplishes nothing but appeases the home crowd. Same with Hatch's abortion amendment.

Pretty much. It's a minor, redundant thing. I'm much more concerned about the fact that the Senate is selling out real reform because too many of the Democrats are corporate whores. I knew the Republicans were. But the Dems have made numerous concessions without getting a single GOP vote for their trouble. wtf is up with the finance committee? They voted down a public option that 65% of the public supports and most doctors and nurses support.

Even with the whitehouse and 60 Senators, the Democrats suck at actually getting shiat done. If Republicans had that kind of power, they'd be ramming through their legislation and laughing at the feeble attempts of Democrats to stop them.

I'm thinking the basic problem is this: Obviously the GOP is the party of big business, so when they are in power, what big business wants is what happens. However, enough of the Democrats are in the same pockets that when Democrats are in power, the GOP minority continues to vote en masse for their corporate masters and enough Democrats join them that the result is much the same. Big business gets what they want. What the public wants simply isn't relevant.

Thanks, Democratic senators, you worthless, spineless, corporate whoring twats.

Goddamn, just tattoo numbers on them and throw them into camps guys, if you're really that concerned with the Mexican threat.

sweetmelissa31
How do they know whether someone is an immigrant? Might as well make everyone show IDs. There are plenty of people who don't have an accent but are still immigrants.

They look for brown people.

FTFA: Grassley's amendment was beaten back 10-13 on a party-line vote.

PhilMP: F*ck you republicans. I hope you all DIAF and then burn in hell.



You're going to lose in 2010. America's had enough of this attitude.

Borders are racist.

GAT_00: Goddamn, just tattoo numbers on them and throw them into camps guys, if you're really that concerned with the Mexican threat.

I see what you did there.

Is any of this "talk" going to create a farking job, or not? Lots of unemployed people would do the shiat jobs the illegals are currently doing to stay afloat. I sure have, and would do it again.

I'm so happy to see that our government is still focusing its efforts on the people themselves and not the employers who hire them. Farking pigs.

Civil_War2_Time: Is any of this "talk" going to create a farking job, or not? Lots of unemployed people would do the shiat jobs the illegals are currently doing to stay afloat. I sure have, and would do it again.

Prove it. Show me the plethora of Americans rushing out to take janitorial jobs, landscaping, dishwashing. Don't give me that one NY Times example either, show me some evidence. Or, shut the fark up.

Barbigazi

Thanks for the encouragement. Lowe's and Home Depot both told me I was overqualified for every position I applied for, even stocking the shelves. Nice thought, though. Far from reality, however.