News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

US Senate not influenced by protests

May 3, 2006 - 6:54AM

A nationwide boycott by Hispanic groups and others seeking rights for illegal immigrants was unlikely to help break a US Senate impasse on an overhaul of immigration laws, Republican lawmakers have said.

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants and their supporters walked off their jobs and held protests around the country on Monday in a display of economic might aimed at persuading Congress to pass a law giving them a chance of citizenship.

"It didn't really affect what goes on the floor of the Senate," said Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican.

Sen John Cornyn, a Texas Republican who opposes a bipartisan Senate bill that would give millions of illegal immigrants a chance to earn US citizenship, said he doubted the protests would have much impact.

"If anything, I think it may have alienated some people," he said.

posted by missionaryman | 8:19 AM

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