-- most Senators had not read it
-- The Senate leadership tried to push it through before anyone had a chance to read it
-- at 373 pages, we assumed that anything that big being rushed probably had plenty of things worth being against

""This has nothing to do with skin color. It has to do with following the rules," said Tetannett. "Did they petition the council of chiefs? Did they bring us five deer? I am totally about process - not skin color - and these people do not go through the process. They show up on their boats and immediately they want us to bring them squash and corn and turkey, because they lack the basic tools to fend for themselves, so they're starving and cold and sick. We have people who are here legally who do not get free corn and squash and turkey."[...]

We're kicking around some kind of point system. They'd get a point, for example, if they had fishing skills or knew our language. They'd have to go back across the ocean and apply for a Special Otter Permit, then they could come back and work under the otter program for eight seasons, accumulating more points. Then they would be hawks. Eventually, after 40 seasons, if they didn't break any of our laws or excessively get on our nerves, we would make them human beings."

• "Voters were far more likely to support proposals that would tighten the border and stop illegal immigrants from getting government benefits than efforts to legalize the estimated 12 million people living in the country illegally."

• The pollsters stated, "We do not find very much voter support for the comprehensive Senate bill."

• "Democratic voters split 47 percent for and 37 percent against after hearing a description of the Senate bill, while most independents and Republicans opposed it."

• Testing what they called `demagogic attacks' on the compromise - labels of amnesty and proposals to make English the official national language - the pollsters called them "not effective."
  

When so much of American business is dependent upon IT, and with so many IT workers here on H-1B visas - and incidentally driving down the value of an advanced (college) education and/or technical training for born Americans, thus reducing their chances for a higher paying job and a better standard of living - I have to wonder why American businesses have placed themselves in such a  vulnerable position by hiring people whose only stake in the system is whatever they can get out of it before they return to their home countries.

The Republicans blocked the immigration reform bill and voters will remember that when its time to go to the polls.

of new customers, CLIENTS, patients,

probationers, parolees, PRISONERS, higher rent

or all, higher food costs, higher social costs

and on and on.

And it's one, two, three, what are we fightin'

for?  Answ:  see above.

And the loser is:  folks in the middle and lower

I trust no immigration bill without full public disclosure and transparency of info regarding any expansion of corporate rights, from the top-down, to move over borders and transnationally.

Aside from the serious questions about human rights, labor issues and obvious environmental concerns, I don't like the corporate halitosis off what seriously smells in this bait and switch.