Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi was killed in a raid yesterday. I believe this is a huge blow to the Al Qaeda network. While figurehead Osama still eludes us in a hole somewhere, the top general for the terrorists in Iraq is gone.
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Senate Pardons 12 Million Criminals
Well it has unfortunately happened. Huge, blanket Amnesty has been passed by the Senate. The only thing left standing in front of this insanity is the House's bill which somehow must be rectified with the Senate's before the law is created.
There are many bad provisions in this bill which is estimated to legalize 32 million immigrants and their families over the next 10 years. (The current US population is less than 300 million) One that deserves mentioning is the fact that illegals social security benefits are guaranteed. Why? Because the thing most often pointed out to prove this bill isn't amnesty is that the illegals have to pay a $2000 fine. Now forget about the fact that illegals may have paid as much as $15k to coyotees to get here and consider this: The average social security pay out is $919.40 per MONTH. Yeah.
Immigration Vote Today
The Senate will be casting their votes for the "comprehensive" immigration bill today. Most likely the large Amnesty bill will pass since the best chance for its opposition was the Cloture vote yesterday.
6000 A Lot Or A Little?
President Bush laid out his latest plan for immigration last night. Chief among the proposals: sending 6000 National Guard troops to the border in "support roles". Most people yawned. While some people are worked up about "militarizing the border", most view sending 2% of the Guard to do some office work for the Border Patrol as meer window dressing – and not even a good dressing at that.
Considering that there are 35,000 police officers in New York city – 6,000 people helping to secure thousands of miles of open border doesn't really inspire awe. Pres. Bush also gave lip service to many, many immigration ideas such as ID cards, walls, fences… enforcement. But the tone definitely came across as "X, Y, and Z are all great ideas… and we're going to do them… in the future… so lets go ahead and pass the amnesty -er- guest worker program today." Even the stop gap Guard deployment will likely take weeks if not months to occur, but the Senate is trying to push through amnesty by Memorial day.
On the whole, it doesn't seem like the speech did anything to change anyone's mind. It simply added one more facet (the Guard) into a growing debate.