Here is the official definition of "cloture," a method of closing a  debate and causing an immediate vote to be taken on the question.

What the rules actually mean is that it is probable that the senate will vote in favor of passage of this bill.

From the senate the bill goes to the congress. Nancy Pelosi is now speaker of the house. What this tells all of us is that the democrats hold the majority of the seats in the house. What this also tells us is that this makes it probable that this immigration bill will pass the congressional house. If the bill clears the senate and then clears the house this means that it will be sent to President Bush to be signed into law. This will mean that the face of America will change forever from what you and I know it.

Passage of this bill will make the bulk of illegal immigrants; legal immigrants. There will be no need to be concerned with I.C.E. or the I.N.S. or any special 287g officers. This bill stipulates more border control. Whether more border patrol will come to fruition or not we cannot say. But if history repeats itself we need not look for more border patrol. We're told that the next step would be to ensure that the border is sealed. In fact we know it's not going to happen. The CBO issued a report a few weeks ago saying that, at best, the amnesty bill would cut the flood of illegals by about 25%. This bill will make moot, void and null almost every bill passed in any state pertaining to illegal immigrants. The immigrants will simply not be illegal anymore. Our southern streets will mingle with the sounds of mariachi and Spanish. Your taxes will go up. They will have to go up. English and Spanish must be taught in the schools. There will be a drain on resources; water, oil, etc. We will experience a population explosion all across America including Bradley County. Landlords you will either rent to immigrants or you will be shut down. You will not be allowed to discriminate. The rate of pay for any jobs that are manufacturing or physical labor jobs will go down. It's a simple supply and demand situation. There will be far more laborers than jobs.

Senator's Alexander and Corker voted no to this bill. Congressman Zach Wamp has promised to vote no when the bill reaches the congress. But these three "no" votes pale in comparison to the "yea" votes. The face of America has probably changed as of Tuesday, June, 27th, 2007. I don't think that at this juncture there is anything at all we can do about it. It seems that it doesn't matter what the voices of the  American people say. It seems that the activist groups and the metropolitan cities outrank and are louder than any other voices. On talk radio I hear callers asking the hosts of the shows if we should take to the streets not in protest but to throw the government out and start over. I hear the hosts asking the audience and callers to call the senate and congress. On Tuesday evening after the USA changing vote of Tuesday afternoon the monthly Republican meeting was held at the courthouse. The vast bulk of comments and questions pertained to illegal immigration and the growing population of immigrants in the Cleveland/Bradley area. None of the audience members seemed to be aware of the Tuesday afternoon vote nor the ramifications of that vote.

We now only have the time it takes to watch it happen. We'll watch in amazement many of us not realizing that we can never go back. Many people will complain not even aware that the argument no longer exists. Will the face of the USA become a Spanglish face? Will there ever be any border control? What will many people do for a living in the face of some much job competition? Is it that the President, the senate and the congress are never going to listen to the USA citizens again? Will the laws be further rewritten to include residents from countries that do not have border access? Or will they still have to follow the old
laws? Why does the USA break and rewrite it's own laws for select groups of peoples? It will take nothing short of a Biblical sized miracle to stop this bill from becoming the law of the land.
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