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.
You have showed me no supreme court cites, and I would love to continue this, but I hear their are illegals in Phoenix and I am going to go round up a few and deny their amnesty.
Goodnight.
Seems to me that was over only a 1% tax too. Geez, where are we at now..heading towards 50% (in fact I think some are already there) by the time you figure sales taxes, death taxes, property taxes, etc. Perhaps I am naive, but that seems to me closer to slavery than to free people.
Or even manning a 30 Cal belt fed mounted on a MP Humvee. I talked to one private at Bragg who bragged about his mother being a communist who fought with Ortega in Nicrauga,and who was here illegally. Another was a E-4 from Haiti,who may have been the laziest and most useless E-4 I have ever seen in my life.Not only that,but he would lie and place the blame for his screw-ups on others. He DID know the exact number of days left before he could demand another promotion,though.
Oh yeah,these people get on the fast track for instant citizenship for serving one enlistment.
Some non-citizens are required to register. Others are not. Noncitizens who are not required to register with Selective Service include men who are in the U.S. on student or visitor visas, and men who are part of a diplomatic or trade mission and their families. Almost all other male noncitizens are required to register, including illegal aliens, legal permanent residents, and refugees. The general rule is that if a male noncitizen takes up residency in the U.S. before his 26th birthday, he must register with Selective Service. For a more detailed list of which non-citizens must register, see Who Must Register - Chart .
The son of one of the war lords in Somalia was a Corporal in the USMC reserves. I THINK he was Adid's son,but may be wrong about that last detail.
I think the best thing everyone on this thread should do is completely ignore him and Dane. That's my plan. You can't debate with a bozo.
If immigration--both legal and illegal--is allowed to continue at its current rate, voting for any other issues won't matter; before long, democrats will form 90% of America's population, and that will be that.
Next election, I'm voting for whichever candidate puts halting immigration first--even if that candidate is Gore or Hillary!
Please do ---I really don't want to have to answer the door to hundreds of Mexicans fresh over the border asking me to write them a notarized letter so they can get their amnesty. Last time one was an 18 year old girl asking me to write that I had employed her for 5 years. She became a little angry when I wouldn't---but I'm sure she found someone who would.
Keep your pants on, cabron. Before you celebrate too much: don't ever lose sight of the fact that the US government is tying our hands. It would otherwise be a very different situation.
Corporal, officer, it's all the same after 2000 posts on one thread. : )
dennisw corraborates your memory of Adid's connection.
Just seeing this go on in OUR country and Jorge Bush seemingly condoning it throws me in a blind rage. What is wrong with this guy?
I now see that the greater danger is when a president turns against his supporters. Like many have said, if Clinton or Gore tried pulling this the rage within the conservative ranks would be so great they wouldn’t be able to get away with it or even bring it up. While I don't believe Bush to be an evil man I do think what he is doing to America with his insane open borders policies is truly evil.
The cost of immigration to the American taxpayer in 1997 was a NET (after subtracting taxes immigrants pay) $70 BILLION a year,[Professor Donald Huddle, Rice University].
The lifetime fiscal impact (taxes paid minus services used) for the average adult Mexican immigrant is a NEGATIVE $55,200, [Center for Immigration Studies, 2001].
http://www.balance.org/
Yup, me too!
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