Posted on 08/05/2005 7:45:55 PM PDT by Black Tooth
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay urged Texas police Thursday night to begin rounding up illegal immigrants, and said he backed legislation that would cut off federal funds to cities that don't enforce U.S. immigration laws.
Speaking to a gathering of Fort Bend County, Texas Republicans, DeLay said that if police rounded up illegals, the federal government would find places to house them.
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In quotes picked up by the Houston Chronicle, the top Republican urged: "If you pick up 50 or 100 of them, you can call the National Guard." As for housing, DeLay said: "Put them in tents."
He noted that until now, even the federal government has not rounded up illegal immigrants in U.S. cities, because federal agents had no place to detain them. The situation is changing, however, under the new leadership at the Department of Homeland Security, he said.
DeLay emphasized that he's a strong supporter of legal immigration. But he opposes educating illegal immigrants using U.S. tax dollars or having their U.S.-born children automatically become American citizens.
According to the Chronicle, he blasted Houston city officials for their lax attitude toward illegal immigration, saying, "It greatly concerns me that the police chief in Houston, Texas, has created a sanctuary in Houston by announcing that he is not going to enforce our laws."
DeLay said he supported legislation introduced by Rep. Tom Tancredo that would withhold federal funding from cities like Houston that ignore federal immigration regulations.
Other big city governments, including New York City, that do not enforce immigration laws and would presumably also be at risk to have federal subsidies yanked under the provision supported by DeLay.
Ah....thanks...
A guest worker program will be in the early stages of implementation so there won't be any arguments over whether Tancredo's or Cornyn's or McCain's guest worker plan should be enacted.
It will be as much of a dead issue as CAFTA is today. That's just fundamental politics. Timing is everything and DeLay/Rove have snookered Tancredo.
Tom DeLay for the PRESIDENT '2008 !!!!!!!!
Agree. They are either getting the message, or trying to appease in an effort to keep the crowds and their pitchforks at home.
If you think it's that simple, and so easily disposed of, fine.
A little legislative sleight of hand, a few PR magic tricks and "PRESTO!!, Political Problem Solved"!
But folks like you vastly 'misunderestimate' the depth of this problem, IMO.
Carry on...
No, I realize that the issue will never go away for the Buchanan crowd, but that's less than 1/2 of one percent of the voters. Have you noticed how many fewer Buchanites are on FR today as compared to 2000 ? Did they lose interest, die, get removed from the contributor lists for nonpayment or just wake up?
They aren't much of a crowd, are they? And yet, you continue to obsessively fixate on them.
Late to the thread....THANK YOU and a DITTO on your Wow!
"She wants every gutter-level vote she can muster up"
Wow, makes her no different than any other politician.
"Billions will have been allocated to increase border security so"
To allocate $$$ and to actually spend $$$ are two different things. There are billions of unspent $$$ on Homeland Security. And no, this issue isn't going to simply go away.
Lets hope he can get this moving!
I'm sending a donation to Delay and Tancredo right now
Immigration is not the issue, it is ILLEGAL immigration.
Nice try.
Well it's only been almost FOUR FRIGGIN' YEARS since 9/11 and we've got one genius in DC who has FINALLY seen the light!
At this pace our great, great grandchildren might still be alive by the time they decide to secure the borders.
Only problem, by that time the border will be secured against all non-Spanish speaking people. LOL
Semper Fi,
Kelly
This has been one of my ideas for a looooooog time. Cut off gubmint money to sanctuary cities and without it they can't give the illegals all the freebies which just enables them.
No money and pretty soon Juan the 'gardener' making $6.00 an hour for his family of seven who feed off the gubmint teat will be in their 'Cheby' heading BACK to México PDQ.
If this passes, which I hope to God it does, the population of Chicago will shrink to about 500,000. Because that's about how many U.S. citizens and LEGAL RESIDENT ALIENS are left there!
Hell, the Chicago Metro Area might even become livable again and we won't have to be afraid to drive after midnight less we get killed by some drunken 'hard working' illegal driving the WRONG freaking way on I-55.
I fully agree.
Wow, makes her no different than any other politician.
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Well, yes and no.
She is a radical leftists, hell-bent ON POLITICAL POWER AND CONTROL which does differentiate her from others clearly. There are some politicians that still care about this country and saving it -- SHE DOES NOT.
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