El Senado aprobo 73 vs. 25 el procedimiento de urgencia para la Reforma Migratoria, despejando el camino para que pueda ser aprobada esta misma semana.
Senate Advances Sweeping Immigration Bill
By SUZANNE GAMBOA, The Associated Press
Wednesday, May 24, 2006; 4:59 PM
WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to limit debate on election-year immigration legislation, clearing the way for final passage later this week of a bill that calls for tougher border security as well as an eventual chance at citizenship for millions of men and women in the country illegally.
The vote to advance the measure was 73-25, 13 more than the 60 needed.
Despite the controversy surrounding the bill, the outcome was not a surprise. Even some of the bill's opponents said they were satisfied they had been given ample opportunity over past week to try and give the bill a more conservative cast.
Final passage would set the stage for a difficult negotiation with the House, which passed legislation last year that exposes all illegal immigrants to criminal felony charges.
President Bush has repeatedly urged Congress to approve an immigration bill that generally follows the approach taken by the Senate, and some senators expressed optimism that a deal could be reached.
"The politics of solving this problem is better than the politics of doing nothing," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
"Does someone have a better approach? Not yet. But we're still open for business," said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Across the Capitol, senior White House strategist Karl Rove met for the second straight week with the GOP rank and file. Asked whether he had made any progress, he told reporters afterward, "Could be."
In the Senate, the final maneuvering was evident as 41 Democrats, 31 Republicans and one independent voted to bring debate to a close. In all, 23 Republicans and two Democrats voted against.
GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell sought to add to the bill a requirement that all voters in federal elections be required to present a valid photo identification.
"It is nonsense to suggest that somehow a photo ID for one of our most sacred rights should not be protected by a requirement that is increasingly routine in almost all daily activities in America today," said the Kentucky lawmaker, second-ranking Republican.
But Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., likened the proposal to a poll tax or a requirement for voters to pass a literacy test. "Now is not the time and this is not the place to consider an amendment that may disenfranchise a million or more poor, minority, disabled, and elderly voters _ all of them American citizens," he said.
LAIF
Latin-American Immigrants Federation
L.A.I.F. Is a Federation of Florida-Based Organizations, whose goal is to Unite, Empower and Represent the U.S. Immigrant Community, and encourage a positive and legal integration into the U.S. American Society and system.
L.A.I.F. Es una federación de las organizaciones de la Florida,con la meta unir, autorizar y representar a la comunidad inmigrante de los E.E.U.U., y motivar una integración positiva y legal en la sociedad y el sistema Estadounidense.
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