Immigration bill in doubt? Yeah!

It's my understanding that all the competing amendments have screwed it up so much that now Senators won't be able to pass the bill. Yeah!!!! I've heard too many bad things about this legislation. Why do we need to rush to pass a new set of laws, when the ones there already aren't even being enforced??? The amendment (or it may have been more than one) I liked - which had teeth in it - was to bar people with criminal offences from getting legal residency. That amendment, by Sen John Cornyn of Texas, was plain common sense. Of course I'd be a bit lenient on very minor stuff like a parking ticket, but not much else. When there are so many coming here, we can afford to be a bit choosey with screening out the bad apples. But, sadly, nobody has the guts or fortitude to buck the special interests who want cheap labor or to gain political brownie points.