The word on Capitol Hill today is that the Senate expects to give members the text of the immigration bill late Friday, with a cloture vote slated for Monday. The bill is expected to run 1,000 pages or more. How fast does the average senator read, much less deliberate?

Remember, nearly three weeks ago, 15 Republican senators asked for at least a week to review the bill. They wanted the bill to be made publicly available online.

UPDATE — 3:57 p.m.: Sen. Jim DeMint (R.-S.C.), who orchestrated the letter asking for at a week to review the legislation, released the following statement about the bill.

I hope we don’t take a thousand page bill written in secret and try to ram it through the Senate in a few days. This is a very important issue for America and we need time to debate it.

But the little we do know about the bill is troubling. According to reports, the bill contains a new ‘Z-visa’ that allows those who entered our country illegally to stay here permanently without ever returning home. This rewards people who broke the law with permanent legal status, and puts them ahead of millions of law-abiding immigrants waiting to come to America. I don’t care how you try to spin it, this is amnesty.