This statement just in from U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson’s [R-GA]office on today’s senate deals.

“This is a mini-compromise that was agreed to by only a few people in the Senate. This compromise is just another version of the McCain-Kennedy proposal. New programs that attract people to come here illegally will only compound the problem. If we do not secure our borders first, we will only accelerate the volume of illegals entering our nation.

“I am insisting on the right to offer my amendment to prohibit the implementation of any guest worker program until border security enhancements are made. If my amendment is not voted on or does not pass, there is no way I can support this legislation in its current form. If we do not incorporate measures that will secure and seal our borders, we’ll have recreated the problem we created in 1986 when we granted amnesty to 3 million but failed to first secure the border. Only this time, we will deal not with just 3 million illegals coming, but millions and millions and millions more – all because we looked the other way.”