Michelle Malkin: It's here: The Bush-Kennedy amnestyReport: Potential cost = $2.5 trillionUpdated with GOP reax

"The amnesty sellout arrives. Background at this post.
Lie of the day from Arlen 'Illegal Alien Gold Card' Specter: 'This will restore the rule of law.'

Second biggest lie of the day:
Bush called it 'a much-needed solution to the problem of illegal immigration in this country' and said, if approved, the proposal 'delivers an immigration system that is secure, productive, orderly and fair.'

Update: Reax from Sen. Jim DeMint...
“I hope we don't take a thousand page bill written in secret and try to ram it through the Senate in a few days. This is a very important issue for America and we need time to debate it.”
“But the little we do know about the bill is troubling. According to reports, the bill contains a new 'Z-visa' that allows those who entered our country illegally to stay here permanently without ever returning home. This rewards people who broke the law with permanent legal status, and puts them ahead of millions of law-abiding immigrants waiting to come to America. I don't care how you try to spin it, this is amnesty.”
Via Kate O'Beirne, Heritage Foundation scholar Robert Rector estimates the bill's pricetag at a potential $2.5 trillion with a 't:'"

Michelle Malkin: It's here: The Bush-Kennedy amnesty
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