$38 billion fails to buy 70 votes for amnesty

◼ Supporters of citizenship-for-illegal-immigrants failed to reach the 70-vote threshold they had set for themselves last night, after just 67 senators voted in favor of ending debate on the $38 billion Corker-Hoeven amendment to the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill. - Conn Carroll/Washington Examiner @conncarroll

Pro-amnesty Republicans had hoped that the last-minute, behind-closed-doors Corker-Hoeven deal would provide enough political cover for more members of their caucus to vote with Democrats, but in the end just 15 Republicans voted with 42 Democrats on the cloture motion.

The Senate is done with immigration, on to the House

And there is little chance any more Republican votes will be added. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has structured the debate so that no more amendments will even be considered. A final vote on the Corker-Hoeven amendment will take place Thursday, and a final vote on Schumer-Rubio will take place shortly after.

Then it is on to the House, where Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has promised regular order and the House Judiciary Committee hasn’t begun writing legislation yet. If pro-amnesty Republicans were looking to create pressure on their House colleagues with a 70-vote margin, they have clearly failed.

And, that's not all:

◼ Open-Borders Religious Front Loses Prominent Member - cis

Like the scales falling from the Apostle Paul's eyes, a prominent member of the Evangelical Immigration Table has distanced himself from the front group after learning of its funding by liberal atheist billionaire George Soros through the open-borders National Immigration Forum.

Eric Metaxas, who penned stellar biographies of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and William Wilberforce, has cut his ties to the NIF's project that gives the impression Christians broadly support mass amnesty and the Senate amnesty bill in particular.

It seems that, in recruiting Christian leaders to the Evangelical Immigration Table, the recruiters may have led them to believe that the EIT would merely serve as a forum to discuss the immigration issue from a biblical perspective. It turns out EIT has not exactly served as a thought-inducing forum. Rather, EIT has actually served as an activist front group, advocating for the Senate's Schumer-Rubio amnesty bill through an advertising campaign mostly targeting Bible Belt states.