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.
Yes, but they can delegate it to local authorities if they choose...and just this past week, they DID choose. Seems Florida local authorities now have the authority to arrest your precious illegal aliens.
Done!
Big Bump on That.
I bump you because abortion is one thing we completely agree on. Scary to see so many willing or unwilling eugenicists on FR.
Section 245(i) -- the mini amnesty
Your immediate action is needed to fight a reinstatement of Section 245(i), a mini-amnesty for illegal aliens.
BACKGROUND
The White House at this moment is working all the levers of power to maneuver the Section 245i mini-amnesty through Congress before President Bush goes to Mexico on March 22. This would significantly increase permanent
U.S. population growth by creating a new wave of amnesty for hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens and the enticement of millions more to move here.It appears that the President apparently is willing to expend all the political capital necessary to have this amnesty in the form of a reinstatement of Section 245(i).
Section 245i allows illegal aliens who are on a waiting list to some year receive a green card as a relative or imported worker to pay a fine and be allowed to stay in this country legally until their turn arrives on the list. Why have a list, if you are going to allow anybody who jumps the line and comes here illegally to stay anyway?
Section 245i is a security risk because:
1. It allows hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens to stay permanently without going through face-to-face interviews in our embassies in their own countries, cultures and languages.
2. It allows people to remain here for years -- 20-30 years in some cases -- as something just above an illegal alien until there name comes up on a waiting list for green cards.
3. It entices millions more foreign nationals to enter the country without screening to be illegal aliens here in hopes that they also will be rewarded for their lawbreaking.
And all of that shows how a Section 245 amnesty boosts U.S. population growth.
You poor thing...I thought I had it bad with Wellstone.
That's why I never voted for Bush Jr. I thought he would follow through, like father, like son. It looks like he is continuing his father's NWO goals.
He doesn't care if he is a one termer or not. Do you really think he is in office to serve the American People? Of course not. He's there to serve the nefarious ambitions of his father and the rest of the NWO elite thugs who are out to destroy America as we know it. He and his snotty Brahmin family and their pals will go to their fantasyland in Kennebunkport behind the big walls and rule the world. Texan my ass!! Carpetbagger is more like it.
Perhaps someday you'll learn something here rather than starting that tiny little spot on your computer screen that has your screenname.
By the way, You did not post this yesterday (at least not on this thread).
Thats a federal law that enlists state law enforcement in apprehending those in violation of federal law. Try again HEEROO. The regulation in matters of immigration and naturalization is strictly a power of the federal government.
In making Immigration laws, yes, but in enforcing immigration laws, no.
Your argument was the enforcement of immigration laws. There is nothing in the US Constitution that prohibits the States from enforcing immigration laws. The states could close down their borders with Mexico and Canada if they wanted to, the protection of the state border is in the hands of the states.
"To establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States."
That doesn't even come close to establishing that the federal government is empowered by the Constitution to have sole control of immigration. In fact, the word "immigration" isn't even mentioned in the section you cited.
I'm sure that you can find the federal legislation which claims this power for the federal government, but you claimed that it was in the Constitution. You would have made a better case by citing the Jurists' Amendment with its language on citizenship and naturalization.
Sorry, boy. You've run into someone who has not only read the document but who didn't even have to get out his copy to refute what you just claimed. Maybe you have read the Constitution, but you obviously disagree with its provisions.
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