Posted on 03/08/2002 1:24:33 PM PST by sarcasm
Friday, March 08, 2002 - WASHINGTON - Rep. Tom Tancredo takes credit for thwarting the Bush administration's last effort to offer partial amnesty to thousands of illegal residents, but Thursday the outspoken immigration foe said he may have been outmaneuvered by the White House.
President Bush has struck a deal with the House leadership to place legislation that offers an extension of amnesty on its consent calendar before Bush heads to Mexico for a state visit next week, the Colorado Republican said. That action should ensure quick House passage of legislation that Bush has repeatedly sought from Congress. It would allow an undocumented person to receive legal standing, such as a valid green card, by filing a declaration with the Immigration and Naturalization Service. It presumably also would require the person to have been in the United States by a certain date and have filed a declaration with the INS from an appropriate sponsor, such as a relative or employer, and pay a $1,000 penalty. "The terms are still up in the air," said Dan Stein, executive director of the Federation for American Immigration, a group that has been allied with Tancredo. "We've heard to the effect that the president wants something to bring down to Mexico." The initial Bush proposal, designed exclusively for Mexicans, once was high on the president's legislative wish list, but it was delayed after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. However, as the president noted Wednesday in a speech to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, he now is pushing for the extension of the amnesty program known by the section of immigration law that covers it, Section 245I. The president hailed it as a way to reunite family, separated by the border. "If you believe in family values, if you understand the worth of family and the importance of family, let's get 245I out of the United States Congress and give me a chance to sign it," Bush told the chamber members. Tancredo, the head of a congressional caucus on immigration issues and proponent of halting virtually all immigration, said he had blocked a previous attempt by Bush to push an extension of the amnesty program through the House. But this time, he said House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., had agreed to place the issue on the suspension, or consent, calendar, making it difficult to defeat the proposal. The Senate might be more favorable to the bill than the House, expanding the numbers of individuals who can apply, Tancredo said.
That coming from you does not surprise me. You do seem to have a god complex.
I always know when I am starting to win when the replies start getting personal.
Yep "fixations" that make life great in America. I can't help it if you believe that a civilization can survive with expensive and scarce food and poor sanitation.
Thank God, I don't live in your America.
ROTFLMAOPIMP - Dane win an argument!
Actually cpaitalizing the g in god when referring to a mortal such as brownie, would be disrespecting God.
You've got to be kidding me. How can correcting a spelling error be considered personal? I do it for my grandkids all the time. I just try to help people when the opportunity presents itself.
Exactly how do you consider this a win for you?
It darn sure won't be teaching high school English or spelling.
If the proposal goes through, Conservatives won't matter anymore ... elections will be overrun by so many "new, illegal" Democrats.
LOL! Now Brownie is turning into FR's grammar teacher. Sorry that I can't stay for class but I have some other things to do today.
Anyway Brownie, you and your class can go over today's lesson that surely will be full of hyperbole and gloom, while you overlook the facts that immigrants from around the world have been a gift to America and have led to America's success.
This is what makes this whole scheme now being pushed by Republicans so difficult to understand. Bush just barely won in 2000, what does he and Congress think is going to happen when you add potentially millions more democrats to the voting rolls?
Not only are they making a mockery of the rule of the law, but they are committing political suicide. Talk about killing two birds with one stone.
He is special & so much more equal than his peons. His Peons, includes us, Dudes & Duddetes-we pay a LOT of his freight via taxes extracted by implied force, by our government.
His average suit of clothing costs perhaps two or three times what the average US worker earns, in a week, & he is seen by our media as such a fine fellow. AND, By GOD, he was ELECTED!
He is so popular with his native & exported peasant supporters alike. The Ex-Patriot Mexican peasants were campaigning for & celebrating victory in the parking lots of many local grocery stores in N. Texas-kind of a nice touch, huh?
He, of The Land to the South, That Land of Infinite Corruption, Drugs, Death & A Limitiless Supply of Criminals ( whom we actually purchase with tax money ). He just deserves a special handle & we just CAN'T let him avoid a handle, El Special.
Dittos for Jorge Castenada-but what handle?
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