House Republicans introduce their own immigration bill

This is encouraging!

In a sharp rebuke to President Bush, House Republicans unveiled legislation Tuesday that would bar illegal immigrants from gaining legal status in the U.S., require tamper-proof birth certificates for Americans and make English the nation’s official language. The measure’s core principles include gaining control of the border and enforcing existing immigration laws — it does not provide a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants as the Bush plan does.

Given the Donk management in Congress these days, this probably has little chance of getting very far, but at least it draws a clear distinction between a real REPUBLICAN approach, in contrast to the Kennedy-McCainiac Mexican Migration Support Act that has been under consideration in the Senate by the Republocratic Demmicans.