Senate Punts on Immigration Reform

We need to reform immigration. We need border security first.

by Rod D. Martin
May 21, 2007

Senate leaders agreed today that they would wait until June to act on the bipartisan "immigration reform" compromise which is quickly unraveling before everyone's eyes.

What Rush Limbaugh has termed the "Comprehensive Destroy the Republican Party Bill" is even getting jeers from people like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, showing that these western state Congresscritters are all too happy to help Republicans throw themselves under the bus.

The sad thing is, we need to reform immigration: the current system is a mess. But we need border security more. And until the latter is a reality, the former is a dead letter, no matter what form it may take.

And this form is just not gonna fly.