More Immigration Madness

This is CNN:

Senate negotiators on Monday accepted a House plan to make states verify that driver's license applicants are U.S. citizens or legal immigrants but softened House-proposed changes in asylum laws.

The immigration measures are part of a bill to pay for continuing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Still unresolved was how much more money to spend on border security.

Congressional aides, speaking on condition of anonymity, said negotiators are still apart on provisions that would devote $4 million each to a Fire Science Academy in Elko, Nevada, and environmental cleanup of a former Energy Department site in New Mexico.

Also in dispute was about $600 million in the Senate version of the bill to hire 1,000 new border patrol officers and other immigration agents and provide 2,000 new beds for detainees.

Tentative deals have been reached to provide roughly $75 billion for defense-related costs and construction of a new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.

The legislation won't be final until the House and Senate vote on it. The House could take it up later this week, but the Senate won't vote until after it reconvenes May 9.

Okay...qhat does driver's licenses, Fire Science Academies, and environmental cleanup in Nevada have to do with defense-related costs and construction of an embassy in Iraq? This bill is supposed to be about the funding for Iraq and Afghanistan. Don't get me wrong, I want the driver's license provisions, but this sort of thing is what gets Congress in to trouble. CNN lists this as an immigration story for crying out loud...