While all eyes will be on Florida's horrible tragedy (yes, it is horrible and yes, it is a major tragedy) the Senate will be pushing through an amnesty bill.... The media is focused on one thing only (on purpose)... THEY never let a tragedy go unused...

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by Neil Munro12 Feb 20182249

The Senate’s supposedly open and lengthy debate on immigration and amnesty will likely come to a quick end on Thursday, leaving both Democratic and GOP groups scrambling to find 60 votes before a Senate recess starts on Friday.

The short period means the outcome will be deeply shaped by Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell’s power over the debate rules and by President Donald Trump’s willingness to Tweet a promised veto of any bill he does not meet his popular goals.

“This is going to be done or not done this week,” Sen. John Cornyn, the second-ranking Republicans in the Senate, said Monday. “People had better get to work because the clock is ticking.”

The Senate goes into recess on Friday for a week, allowing home-state voters to meet their Senators and make clear their support for an amnesty, a compromise or opposition to an amnesty. Those voters have plenty of opportunities to make their views clear via many civic groups and websites, such as NumbersUSA, Stop DACA.org or United We Dream or Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us.

The short process may also be tangled up if Texas Sen. Ted Cruz uses his rights under Senate rules to force other Senators to debate the large and small amnesties that are now being pushed in the Senate bills. Cruz was the only Senator to vote against McConnell’s procedural rule. The promise of citizenship to the younger illegals “is inconsistent with the promises that he and Republicans have made to the voters, and is in fact further to the left of President Obama’s position,” said spokeswoman Catherine Frazier.