The Senate is debating S.2611, the Immigration Reform bill. While the legislation includes important provisions on border security and interior enforcement, the Hagel-Martinez “compromise” also creates a system that grants amnesty to the approximately 12 million illegal aliens currently residing in the United States. I am adamantly opposed to any legislation that turns a blind eye and rewards illegal immigrants for breaking the law.

I believe that any legislation approved by the Senate should include strong, definitive measures to address border security and interior enforcement. I believe the President’s proposal to put National Guard troops on our borders is a good first step. I also believe we should continue to construct physical barriers to prevent unlawful entry at our borders. A secure border coupled with strong enforcement laws will begin to eliminate the market for illegal workers and allow the United States to begin to truly address the problem of illegal immigration.

Amnesty-citizenship Senate Bill 2611 for illegal aliens stands for complete, unbelievable and unchangeable insanity! Our reckless U.S. Senate launches our country toward adding 200 million people from outside our borders. This bill will prove the disintegration of our nation, our way of life, our language, our sovereignty, our culture, our schools, medical systems and create an unsustainable society.

Senator Teddy Kennedy’s stupid, moronic and infantile 1965 Immigration Reform Act added 106 million people to our county in 40 years. He opened the gates to a flood that grows by 80 million worldwide annually. What in the name of sanity was he thinking then? That’s the problem; these senators are not thinking about the kind of America into which they are drowning us. They stand bereft of their minds, ethics and understanding of their actions.

America suffers its greatest crisis since the Civil War. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. We are met on a great battlefield of that war testing whether that nation or any nation can long endure.

You’ve read or memorized Lincoln’s Gettysburg address. It stood as the definitive mandate for our country in 1865. Lincoln died for his efforts, yet the nation lived. Men and women perished in terrible battles that pitted brothers against brothers and sisters against sisters. In their time, it was states rights and slavery.

Senate Bill 2611 (Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act) (abbreviated CIRA), is a United States Senate bill dealing with immigration reform. It proposes to increase security along the southern United States border with Mexico, allows long-time illegal immigrants to gain citizenship with some restrictions, and to increase the number of guest workers over and above those already present in the U.S. through a new “blue card” visa program. The sponsor of S. 2611 is Senator Arlen Specter, who introduced it on April 7, 2006. It was passed on May 25, 2006, by a vote of 62-36. Cloture was invoked, which limited debate to a 30 hour period. The parallel House Bill H.R. 4437 deals with immigration differently.

Currently there are estimated to be between 11 and 12 million illegal immigrants living within the United States. On December 16, 2005, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 4437, which aims at improving the US-Mexican border security and increasing penalties for employers and smugglers of illegal immigrants. While most are supportive of increased border security, there have been various approaches to handle problems related to the large number of illegal immigrants already present in the country. The problems associated with illegal immigrants are unlicensed and uninsured drivers, identification theft and fraud, and employment fraud, and health services fraud.