Tancredo doubts he can block amnesty-extension bill

Denver Post ^ | March 8, 2002 | Bill McAllister

[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.

[ATR]

I completely agree with post 171. I stood in the rain outside the VPs house for several days last November, in support of Bush. I donated to the Bush campaign during the primaries, the general campaign, and twice during the post-election debacle.

I am so disgusted with Bush because of his immigration nonsense that I can barely see straight. I, too, will NEVER vote for him again.

To think that this man called on Americans to sacrifice for Homeland Security, and is now pushing for 245(i) and additional loosening yet to come, is absurd and hypocritical to the point of insanity.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Scary and real stuff. However, I fear America needs some strong medicine to get her straight. Its going to happen. Its just a matter of when and where.

[TEXICAN II]

Your schizophrenia on the Criminal Aliens is glaring. Do you imply a joke or can you fail to have any logical capacity?

Erase them tomorrow & all the work we have will get done-I don't care about your Grandmother's fatuous school of economics. Fatuous means, simple, inanely foolish, silly.

They are here to depress wages, dilute the influence of all conservatives, degrade & weaken our institutions, and to assist in the degredation of education, our tolrerance of them comes at the huge cost of many Billions in annual taxes-a direct transfer to their country of origin by way of social costs their country does not pay, cash exported to their homeland ( much of which may take decades to re-enter our economy, etc, etc, etc.

ROUND 'EM UP & SHIP 'EM OUT'

[sweetliberty]

"He doesn't care what polls say, because he thinks this is the right thing to do."

But for who? Mexicans or Americans?

[Joe Hadenuf]

I am so disgusted with Bush because of his immigration nonsense that I can barely see straight. I, too, will NEVER vote for him again.

I completely agree. If he does this I will hold nothing but contempt for President Bush.

It is wrong and nothing short of an attack on the American people.

[Marine Inspector]

For the millionth time, tell me why I should welcome illegal immigrants into the country? My grandparents came legally, you know, the right way

He does not want to answer that question. Either he is illegal himself or knows many illegals and is here to defend them.

In his little fantasy world, it is OK to break the law. He does not respect the law or what it stands for.

[TEXICAN II]

Email our very own Marlboro Man at:

President@Witehouse.gov

Have at 'em. I do.

[Carry_Okie]

You REALLY misunderstood me. I don't approve of using immigration to hold up that unconstitutional Ponzi scheme either, I merely cite use of that gambit as integral to US immigration policy.

[Brownie74]

I stood in the rain outside the VPs house for several days last November, in support of Bush.

And I (at the ripe young age of 60) hit the streets for the first time in my life to face off against the democrats in downtown Dallas to support Bush. And what did it get me?

As Judge Ito said in the O.J. trial - be careful of what you wish for, you just may get it.

I am so disgusted with Bush because of his immigration nonsense that I can barely see straight. I, too, will NEVER vote for him again.

Join the growing number. If he places the Mexicans and their vote ahead of me, then he can have them. I will write my own name on the ballot in 2004 before I will vote for him.

[healey22]

Either he is illegal himself or knows many illegals and is here to defend them.

I suspect he is an illegal alien benefiting from some type of entitlement program (preferential treatment) that funds his internet connection. He may also be benefiting from in-state tuiton that American citizens will be denied until some brave soul steps forward with a federal discrimination lawsuit.

[Marine Inspector]

They are here, you have benefitted from their labor, unless you clean your own dishes after a meal at a restaurant or make your own bed and clean your own toilet at a hotel. And you want to ship them back, for what. The crime of cleaning your toilet and washing your dishes.

You do understand that not every dish washer and hotel room cleaner is illegal. No, you probable don't. You just don't get it.

The immigrants of 100 years ago, entered the US legally. Why can't you understand the difference between ILLEGAL AND LEGAL.

Nobody on this thread has said anything bad about legal immigration, just the criminals that break our laws.

So, once again, WERE DO WE DRAW THE LINE? Do we give amnesty to speeders and parking violators? How about DUI's? While were at it, why not murders and child molesters. Putting these people in jail would go against Mr. Bush's family unification program, so why not give everyone in jail amnesty. There just criminals. They don't what to hurt anyone, they just want what you have. Some in more ways then others.

[Marine Inspector]

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.

Please show me one shred of proof that an ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT has helped this country. LEGAL IMMIGRANTS have been been good for this country, but not ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

[Marine Inspector]

An example is Motorola's shutdown of the fabulous manufacturing facility at Schaumberg, Illinois.

On top of that, Motorola has been laying people off in the Phoenix area, but I see several new H1B's for Motorola each month. They are just replacing US workers with foreign workers, make more of a profit.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

He does not want to answer that question. Either he is illegal himself or knows many illegals and is here to defend them.

Everytime I asked Dane to explain if he understands the difference between legal and illegal, he gives me the usual rant about "immigrants doing the jobs we won't do". He never differentiates between the two. To him, an immigrant is just that, no matter how they got here. And we better show them hospitality, because not do so means we're a racist.

If this is the future of America, it's not going to be pretty. Especially for future generations who will reap the benefits of an uncaring and irresponsible Congress of today.

[KirkandBurke]

The flag of the Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) of Mexico

VIVA AZTLAN!
VIVA LA RECONQUISTA!

"We're going to take over all the political institutions of California, in five years, we're going to be the majority population in this state. California is going to be a Hispanic state and anyone who doesn't like it should leave"

"Well, if they (Anglos) don't like Mexicans they ought to leave. They ought to go back to Europe."

Mario Obledo, co-founder of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund)

Winner of the 1998 Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded by President Clinton

20 Años En El Sendero de La Liberación Mexicana
(The red background in annoying, but they chose red for a reason. And these guys think Obledo is a sell-out!)

Map of Aztlan. This is what they want to take. CA first, then TX, then the states in between.

Bush could be just ignorant or he could be crazy like a Vicente.

[blueriver]

LEGAL IMMIGRANTS have been been good for this country, but not ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

Legal immigration may have been good for this country at one time but it is no longer good for this country. We have had enough immigration, the unemployment is going to keep rising and people will begin to realize that this country as great as it is can not sustain continuing unabated immigration. Ask yourself the question - if Bush decides to give green cards out at the border (making it legal immigration) would this be acceptable to you?

[TEXICAN II]

I have been in the trucking industry for almost 14 years. I have run general freight through the 48, I have been on a special Hazardous Material fleet for the last, oh, 8-10 years. In transportation, I have seen it all.

I can give you chapter & verse from an entire encyclopedia of why those Mexican trucks, with their Mexican drivers, should STOP COLD, at our border. No law, regulation or program can change their bad effects & the cost, both economic & now, perhaps, military. You are obviously the finest sort of public servant, a dedicated citizen, have intimate, first hand knowledge of an entire universe, about which I & others may only speculate. I salute you & cherish your comments. They are very valuable.

But please, kind sir, the NAFTA deal, GAT, the immigration rules, the whole kit-&-kaboodle are rotten in every respect. The borders should be closed as tight as the doors to the Fort Knox vault. Every Criminal alien & ANY legal alien not found to be on the most legitimate of business or trade missions, should be removed immediatly. The immigration INVASION ( legal & illegal ) will destroy what's left of our nation & may well kill us all.

[HennepinPrisoner]

Your schizophrenia on the Criminal Aliens is glaring. Do you imply a joke or can you fail to have any logical capacity?

I was being totally sarcastic in my posting.

[HennepinPrisoner]

Where are your ancestors from sarcasm?

Speaking for myself, my earliest ancestors are from the Garden of Eden.

Why do you ask?