Sarah Palin blasted the newest immigration reform bill on her Facebook page yesterday.
“Look no further than the fact that Senator Rubio and amnesty supporters nixed Senator Thune’s amendment that required the feds to finally build part of a needed security fence before moving forward on the status of illegal immigrants who’ve already broken the law to be here,” Palin said on her Facebook page.
Legislators appear to be doing just that.
The proposed immigration reform is based, in part, on a border security amendment that legislators announced last week. The security amendment would require that substantial increases to border security would have to occur before amnesty for illegal residents could even be considered. These increases include several hundred miles of new fencing, more funding for drones, and increased surveillance of the border.
Some Republicans are unhappy with the proposal.
"This is a border surge[.] We've practically militarized the border," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told The Huffington Post.
The authors of this amendment hope to win over skeptical Republicans so they can pass the immigration reform bill.