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.
Texas RINOS! I know Gramm is calling it quits, but is Hutchinson??
Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus.
Working Toward Sound Immigration Policies for America.
Chairman Tom Tancredo.
Let me see--I have a C a C- and an F. My Traitors are not as bad as yours. LOL
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Stop 245(i) mini-amnesty!
While thousands of Americans remain buried in the rubble of the World Trade Center, the White House continues to push for amnesty for millions of illegal aliens.
Our most pressing concern at this moment in yet another extension of Section 245(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act that allows illegals to remain in this country with virtually no background checks. All they have to do is marry a U.S. citizen and pay a fine of $1,000
This is nothing more than blatant pandering by the Republican Party to attract immigrant votes. It was only a short while ago that President Bush told the American people that the federal government is "doing everything that it can to protect Americans from more terrorist attacks." Is this how Mr. Bush intends to enhance our safety?
Have we learned nothing from President Clinton's "CitizenshipUSA" program that rushed more than a million immigrants through the naturalization process so they could vote in the 1996 general election? As a result of the watered-down "security checks," including the elimination of fingerprinting, we now know that more than 70,000 immigrants with criminal records were given their citizenship papers.
Please call your representatives in Washington and ask them not to support another extension of 245(i). This is not the way to honor the memory of those lost on Sept. 11.
Bush is a liar.
Yes, I'd say that Bush has earned that shameful grade. On immigration he is about as bad as they come.
Bah! ha ha ha
California Coalition for Immigration Reform
Carolinians for Immigration Reform
Center for Immigration Studies
Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America
Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)
Floridians for a Sustainable Population
Georgia Legislature
LimitsToGrowth
Negative Population Growth (NPG)
Paul Revere Society (Michael Savage)
ProjectUSA
Tennesseans for Immigration Control
Virginia Coalition for Immigration Reform
Voice of Citizens Together/American Patrol
World Overpopulation Awareness
I don't think Bush would appoint someone to his cabinet unless they shared his open borders, one-world view. Anyone see Ziglar last week on C-Span? What a disgrace. He got pounded by one Rep after another (most of these reps have pretty crummy immigration records themselves) and all he had were weak, mealy mouth responses to the volumes of complaints each rep had about the immigration disaster in their region. The only time he "beamed" was when a rep from California commended him on the good work the INS was doing on the "immigrant services" side in her mostly Hispanic (illegal) district. That told the whole story. Ziglar is the LAST person that should ever head the INS. It is tantamount to having Vincete Fox run the show.
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