It’s baaaaack! The Most Honest, Most Open, and Most Ethical Congress in history is quietly sneaking amnesty back on to the table, keeping it as little known-about as possible. The Los Angeles Times reports:

Three months after Congress failed to pass a broad immigration overhaul, lawmakers are quietly returning to the hot-button issue, discussing narrower measures that address illegal immigrants and low-skilled laborers…

As early as this week, Democratic senators are set to introduce an amendment that would give conditional legal status to young illegal immigrants.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) hopes to bring up a visa program for farmhands that eventually would allow them to gain citizenship, while Republican senators are discussing a short-term guest-worker program for low-skilled laborers.

I know you’ll be shocked, but all of those Dems who said it would be off the table until after the ’08 election…lied. Gasp! You could knock me over with a straw.

After the Senate failed in June to pass the broad immigration bill, rebuffing President Bush, who supported it, many on Capitol Hill predicted the issue would lie fallow until after the 2008 presidential election. But that has not been the case.

Remember the “tough” Bush enforcement implementations that came suddenly, out of nowhere, last month? What’s the likelihood that their goal was an attempt to be able to say “Hey, look. We’re enforcing the laws, I mean, see these new tough measures?”. Fact of the matter is, those weren’t “tough”. They still failed to enforce the laws we have, and I’ve heard of maybe one or two raids by ICE since their implementation. That’s not an excuse for passing amnesty. Luckily, the right people are on the case:

“We may be heading for another immigration battle,” Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said of the measures headed for the Senate floor. “Hopefully it can be avoided.”

If you don’t mind the metaphor, we may have to man our battle stations again.