Thought y'all might be interested in this from Slate.com:
[A]n attachment to a bill (introduced by Wisconsin Republican James Sensenbrenner, chair of the judiciary committee) that supplements funds for Iraq, passed by Congress and now on the president's desk, would allow the United States once again to keep out and to deport foreign nationals not for their conduct, but for their politics--their ideas, their speech, and the groups with which they associate. Other attachments to the Iraq spending bill have gotten attention, for imposing mandatory standards on the issuance of driver's licenses and for altering the legal rules for asylum. But the expanded grounds for deportation and exclusion received virtually no discussion.
The Senate passed the bill 100 to 0.
The good times are over
Larry
more in extended entry...
that [bill] supplements funds for Iraq, passed by Congress and now on the president's desk, would allow the United States once again to keep out and to deport foreign nationals not for their conduct, but for their politics--their ideas, their speech, and the groups with which they associate. Other attachments to the Iraq spending bill have gotten attention, for imposing mandatory standards on the issuance of driver's licenses and for altering the legal rules for asylum. But the expanded grounds for deportation and exclusion received virtually no discussion.