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9/11 FAMILIES PLEAD: include immigration controls or scrap the intelligence bill. Quotable:

"You allowed the murder of my son. I will not allow you to kill my daughters," said Joan Molinaro, mother of a New York City firefighter who died September 11, as she first held up a picture of her son and then a picture of her two daughters. "No bill should pass the Senate, the House, anywhere, unless it contains immigration reform � you secure our borders, you keep my girls alive."

See also this. Quotable:

For the next four years you can take it as an immutable Washington truth that when President Bush is allied with the Senate and most of the mainstream media against the conservative Republican base in the House of Representatives, he is on a quick path to a big mistake ..

Conservatives concerned about effective war fighting and controlling our borders were strongly against [the Senate intelligence "reform" bill] -- and for good reason .. the bill would take operational control of needed battlefield intelligence away from the Pentagon and give it to the new intelligence czar. It seems surpassingly odd that we would take control away from the Pentagon, which has been performing superbly for years and give it to the Intelligence agency that has been failing catastrophically for decades .. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Sensenbrenner is being nastily opposed for calling for tougher driver's license and political asylum standards to make it harder on possible terrorists .. the driver's license provision was in the 9/11 commission's final report but was deemed too controversial for open border-favoring politicians of both parties ..

UPDATE: Sensenbrenner holds his ground. Posted by Greg Ransom | TrackBack