Senators reject legal status for children of immigrants

Majority Leader Sen. “Dusty” Harry Ried (Donk-NV) made a second attempt at his so-called Dream plan to guarantee illegals the right to a fast track legalization pathway.

The obvious question to the Chief is why illegal alien residents, who by definition, have committed crimes in order to even be in the country should get this fast-track? Of course there’s no answer but one, found in the pages of history referring back to the bad old days of New your’s Tammany Hall (not coincidently, a also bunch of corrupt Donks) when stuff like this was a deliberate electoral strategy (from Wikipedia):

Tammany Hall also served as a social integrator for immigrants by familiarizing them with American society and its political institutions and by helping them become naturalized citizens. One example was the massively expedited, although legally dubious, naturalization process organized by William Tweed. Under Tweed special naturalization committees were established to complete the forms, pay the fees and obtain the witnesses necessary for naturalizing immigrants, and judges were compelled to expedite naturalization proceedings.(emphasis added)

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Anyway, Ried’s efforts were once again (fortunately) in vain:

The Senate today rejected a bill that would have allowed young people brought to the United States as children by their illegal immigrant parents to gain legal status provided they attended school or entered the military. The 52-44 vote, short of the 60 required, was seen as a test of the Senate’s appetite for pursuing an immigration overhaul on a piecemeal basis, as opposed to the comprehensive approach that failed this summer. The procedural vote would have allowed debate to begin.

Ried’s Donk allies wasted no time in shedding crocodile tears for the poor, oppressed illegals:

“I believe in this bill passionately,” said lead sponsor Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), who has lobbied for the so-called Dream Act for five years and says he knows many young people who would be helped by it. “Some of their stories are heartbreaking. Many know no other country, know no other language, and now they are being told to leave by our government.”

If they had been here legally in the first place, there would be no problem. This simple concept is apparently too much for Dick “Turban” Durbin to grasp.

Oh well. All’s well that ends well…at least for now.