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Six amendments and six votes to table. The seventh was Senator Baucus' amendment to scrap REAL ID and low and behold the motion to table fails and debate proceeds. So that's the end of debate for today. Tomorrow morning will be the key vote to end debate and 60 votes are needed. If that passes, the remaining amendments will be considered and a final vote on the bill would happen on late Friday.

If you ask me to lay odds, I'd say the cloture vote will pass in a squeaker - 62 votes is my prediction. We'll see how close I am.

UPDATE: Maybe I'm off if you believe reports that several Senators have changed their views in the last few hours. But this bill has been pronounced dead many times in the past so I wouldn't count it out yet.

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06-28-2007, 09:28 AM

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I was right this time it was really really dead, now let's see if there are conseqeunces, no 4.4 billion fund for border security,no extra border patrol etc, things will be just get worse, and even those who want to come across legally because of backlog will coss the desert, even if they have priotiy dates and still have to wait another 10 years, they would rather cross the border and work than wait home.
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06-28-2007, 09:42 AM

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Things are looking grim, even for people like US who are waiting on USICS and hoping the EB numbers don't start rolling back, which they will, no question about it.

I hope the democrates in the Senate can give and help ensure passage of at least border security in the next two years so then once that is in place we can finally get something regarding immigration. I hate to say this, but I don't think anything regarding immigration can pass untill these anti-immigrant senators can get their border security first.

I hate to do this, but I think all of us immigrants should get on the border security band wagon and ask our democrat senators such as Kennedy to secure our borders as soon as possible so we can finally, even after 2 years, get some relief and get real reform in immigration. What do you say guys, how does that sound?
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06-28-2007, 10:27 AM

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Well, well, well; there goes the CIR Bill. That was some brilliant political maneuvering by the Democrats. The Republicans have commited politial suicide at least with their Hispanic voters. If they used to have 35% before now, I would say that has gone down to 2%. What they don't realize is that the people they are asking to be deported are family members (fathers, mothers, children, aunts, cousins etc) of those that are citizens and can vote in the 2008 Presidential elections. And thats only the Hispanic vote. Did you not know that there are Vietnamese, Chinese, Europeans, Indians, Nigerians and so on that would have benefited from this bill? The true color of the Republican party has just come out and the repercussion will be known next year; stay tuned!

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