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June 28, 2007

BOND VOTES TO KILL SENATE 'AMNESTY' BILL

Senator Helps Defeat Flawed Immigration Bill

U.S. Senator Kit Bond today issued the following statement on his vote to kill the immigration bill:

"Today I voted to kill this fundamentally-flawed amnesty bill. We need to do more to secure our borders, but we cannot be held hostage by those who want amnesty for illegal aliens.

"I support cutting the flow of illegal immigration with more border barriers, detention facilities and enforcement agents, but I deeply oppose rewarding those who illegally entered or stayed in our country with a path to citizenship or new guaranteed federal entitlement benefits.

"This bill would legalize illegal immigrants who broke our laws and flaunted our rules. Unfortunately, my attempts to strike that legalization and cut their path to citizenship failed.

"Additionally, many people did not realize that the 12 million illegal immigrants legalized in this bill would eventually qualify for Medicare, Social Security and other entitlements.

"The amnesty provisions and the $20 billion in new unfunded mandatory entitlement spending for illegal immigrants doomed this bill, and I was proud to oppose it."

Today, the Senate failed 46-53 to invoke cloture on the motion to end debate on the immigration bill. 60 votes were required to end debate and move the bill to a vote on final passage. This failure essentially forced the bill managers to withdraw the bill, ending any hopes for its passage this Congress. Senator Bond joined those who opposed ending debate and thereby supported killing the bill.