Tancredo, 70 lawmakers strike out at guest-worker plan

The Denver Post ^ | 03/16/2006 | Anne C. Mulkern

[NapkinUser]

Washington - Colorado's Rep. Tom Tancredo and 70 other U.S. representatives sent a letter today to a Senate committee, warning that legislation it's considering allowing illegal immigrants to work legally in the country will hit a roadblock if it comes back to the House.

The Senate's Judiciary Committee for the last two weeks has been debating an immigration reform bill that includes what's being called a “guest worker” program, something President Bush said he wants.

“We are concerned that some of these proposals are fundamentally incompatible with the desire of the American public for real immigration reform and their clear opposition to reform proposals that amount to little more than thinly disguised attempts to provide amnesty," the House members said in the letter.

“If the Senate were to pass such a proposal, we believe it would doom any chance of a real reform bill reaching the president's desk this year.

Tancredo, R-Littleton, and the other 70 lawmakers were part of a group that led the passage of a bill in the House that imposes new border security measures, including increasing penalties for being in the country illegally.

The House bill does not include a guest-worker provision. The group considers allowing illegal immigrants to stay in the country legally a form of amnesty.

“Rewarding persons who have broken the law with an advantage that they would not otherwise have had encourages more illegal behavior and is unjust to immigrants who came to the U.S. legally,'' the letter says.

Reps. Bob Beauprez, R-Arvada, and Joel Hefley, R-Colorado Springs, are among those who signed the letter.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is not expected to finish work on the bill this week, which was the deadline given by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. He is expected to introduce his own bill possibly today that includes border security measures and does not have a guest worker provision.

[chicagolady]

THank God for Tom Tancredo!!

[taxed2death]

".....he wants to keep the issue alive to keep the funds flowing into his and bay buchanan's PAC."



Yup.

B-B-B-B-uchanan and those darned grays at Dulce keep on pushing their mind control experiments on to unsuspecting citizens. They must be stopped at all cost!

You are beginning to sound more and more like the Ghost of Bayourod.

[kittymyrib]

Why is immigration the business of the Judiciary Committee? Just because Arlen Specter wants to have his disgusting say on every issue? He has more power than Pres. Bush, at this point, and is working hand-in-glove with Kennedy to provide the lib-dems with more Hispanic voters for decades to come. Of course, conservatives knew he would be a thorn in their side, but that didn't stop the President and the poor deluded Santorum to help him get re-elected. Sometimes I'm amazed at the gullibility of those who want to lead us.

[FixitGuy]

I like Tancredo too, but 72 members is way less than half!

What's the point?

[reelfoot]

Tancredo for President.

[OB1kNOb]

Tom Tancredo / Zell Miller
2008 Kick'Em In the Arse Tour !!

[Travis McGee]

Quisling: a synonym for traitor, someone who collaborates with the invaders of his country.

[Travis McGee]

[blackie]

Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!

Support our Minutemen Patriots!

Be Ever Vigilant!

[mthom]

Tancredo is not the one teaming up with Kennedy to come up with a bill that includes a direct path to citizenship. Cornyn is. Yet you still attack Tancredo. Interesting.

[Old_Mil]

Tom Tancredo / Zell Miller 2008 Kick'Em In the Arse Tour !!

Zell Miller is 74 years old. How about Tancredo/Pence in 2008...

[Dane]

Tancredo is not the one teaming up with Kennedy to come up with a bill that includes a direct path to citizenship. Cornyn is.

Uh Cornyn is not teaming up with kennedy, mccain is.

[mthom]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1598323/posts

Cornyn is working on a "compromise" with Kennedy that includes a guest worker program and would give illegals turned guest workers a path to permanent residency and citizenship. So basically Cornyn is compromising by agreeing to everything kennedy wants.

[mthom]

No response?

[Dane]

No response?

Why should I? Your source was a knight-ridder report with no actual quotes, saying Cornyn is co-operating with Chappaqudick ted.

Cornyn is the Senator actually questioning why Yale has the former taliban spokesman as a student.

JMO, I will trust Cornyn's actions and not trust dinosaur media knight-ridder speculation, as you do.

[Cyropaedia]

That's actually a McClatchy News source.

You're in denial pal....(as usual)...

[Balding_Eagle]

What are you complaining about?

He's not complaining about anyone or anything.

His job here is to denigrate Tancredo, and he thinks this was a good opening.

So much focus on money......money.......money in his posts leaves me wondering............

[Dane]

That's actually a McClatchy News source.

You're in denial pal....(as usual)...

And how I am in denial bud(a charge thrown at me(as usual)...)

mcclatchy and knight-ridder are the same biased liberal media.

[Cyropaedia]

So you actually know, that Cornyn will not reach a compromise will the other side (Kennedy and Co.) that does not include legalizing illegals and ultimately providing them with some sort of path to naturalization...?? You don't pal. I want Cornyn to come out and state that those kind of provisions will not be include to in the legislation that is finally adopted.

Any sort of direct compromise on major immigration legislation with the Kennedy/McCain/Specter cabal cannot be good.

[Dane]

So you actually know, that Cornyn will not reach a compromise will the other side (Kennedy and Co.) that does not include legalizing illegals and ultimately providing them with some sort of path to naturalization...?? You don't pal. I want Cornyn to come out and state that those kind of provisions will not be include to in the legislation that is finally adopted.

Any sort of direct compromise on major immigration legislation with the Kennedy/McCain/Specter cabal cannot be good.

Well with a-holes like yourself snapping at Cornyn's ass, I wouldn't blame him.

Maybe you should just take a breath and figure out who your friends and enemies are, before the buchanan knee jerk chest thumping kicks in.