Steve LeBlanc reports that the Massachusetts Senate has passed a more moderate proposal on illegal immigration than the one that Republicans wanted them to pass.
The Massachusetts Senate on Wednesday passed a measure that would limit the access of illegal immigrants to some unemployment and welfare benefits, but did not go as far as Republicans would have liked.
The amendment to the state budget, which passed on a 32-6 vote, was designed to quash a more expansive Republican-sponsored measure which would have barred illegal immigrants from a wider range of benefits. One Democrat joined the Senate's Republican minority in voting against it.
A similar measure was narrowly defeated in the Massachusetts House last month.
The State House News Service has more about an incident involving the Anti-Defamation League Regional Director Derrek Schulman. He invoked Godwin's Law (well, he said neo-Nazis, not Nazis, but it amounts to the same), and now the Senators sitting near him have to distance themselves from the comments, including Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz (D-Suffolk 2).
“I can say personally I don’t believe the members of the Republican party in either chamber, I don’t find them to be in the category that Derrek was describing of people who are taking on the rhetoric of white supremacists or neo-Nazis,” Chang-Diaz said. “I think there are plenty of other reasons on the merits to have an honest disagreement about [the immigration amendments].”
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