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Though few Republicans are willing to stand up and openly support amnesty (even presidential aspirant John McCain, who has cosponsored past amnesty attempts, said in a presidential debate that he has never supported any amnesty), President Bush is doing his best to twist enough Republican arms to get the deal passed in the Senate.
After the Senate rejected taking further action on the Bush-Kennedy immigration bill in early June, falling 15 votes short of the 60 needed to move it forward, Bush went after the Republican holdouts. He told reluctant Republicans that he would put $4.4 billion toward additional border security if they approved of his amnesty--the money to be taken from "the fines and penal ties that we collect from those who ...