Dems Defeat Amendment to Immigration Bill

Washington, DC (TLS). CNS is reporting that Democrats in the Senate have defeated an amendment to the immigration bill--an amendment that would have prevented anyone from gaining legal status who had fake documents, committed crimes, or ignored deportation orders.

The amendment was offered by Texas Republican John Cornyn but was harshly denounced by one of the bill's co-sponsors, Senator Ted Kennedy.

Kennedy said the following about the amendment: "This amendment would exclude hundreds of thousands from benefits in this bill and undermine the bipartisan compromise that members of this body worked so long and so hard to produce."

Cornyn's amendment was entirely reasonable and appropriate. Kennedy's words provide only more proof of the absolute mockery of the U.S. Constitution he has foisted on the public for over 30 years.