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.
Just think, we can all have 30 or 40 people for every lawn to mow, in restaurants they can have a 60- or 70 dishwashers each, MacDonalds will serve billions of hamburgers by millions of illegals.
How many uneducated, non english speaking, unskilled millions, do they plan on dumping on us?
GLOBAL ONE-WORLD GOVERNMENT... Enron-style legislation for everybody! Viva Greenspan.
ps Memo to US Middle-Class Voters: you don't matter anymore.
Hmmmph. More "demands." Who's going to provide ME with health care? My employer does not, and I can't afford to take out a policy on my own. So I just do without.
Besides, don't illegals already have health care? A few weeks ago, Terry Anderson on his radio program was talking about how the cost of his mother's medication, which she needs to stay alive, had been raised to $800 a month, an amount neither Terry nor his mother can afford. Near tears, Terry asked the nurse what would happen if his mother was an illegal alien. "Oh, illegals are on a different plan," the nurse told him. "This medication would be free for them!" I've seen the photo of Terry on his web site. He appears to be middle-aged. So his mama must be at least in her 70s. Yet an illegal alien who jumped the border yesterday has better benefits than she does.
Did anyone see 60 MINUTES tonight, about the ineptness of the INS? It's really an outrage. Especially that serial murderer who was caught crossing the Mexican border SEVEN TIMES and was set free on his merry way every time.
I thought there'd be changes after 9/11. I guess not. The world has gone insane.
Apparently as many as Fox has, Bush will take. Never asks us if this is ok, it's just the right thing to do. The last 10 years were nothing compared to what's coming.
And just how much longer do you think it's going to BE a better life if we keep letting them in and they keep breeding at the currrent rate?
I fully understand. Below is from my post number 1045.
____________________________________________________________ And you have damn good reason to be.
DEPORT ALL NON CITIZENS NOW. **WARNING** ANY OF OUR CITIES OR POSSIBLY SEVERAL OF THEM ARE AT GREAT RISK. GET THESE PEOPLE OUT OF OUR COUNTRY BEFORE ITS TO LATE.
1045 posted on 3/10/02 8:06 AM Pacific by Joe Hadenuf
Really crazy times, we find ourselves no longer represented. What the citizens of the United States want, or what is in our best interest no longer matters.
Just like when the people of california voted for proposition 187.
THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA HELD AND *FREE* ELECTION AND VOTED 3 TO 1 IN FAVOR OF PROPOSITION 187. PROP 187 WOULD HAVE PUT A STOP TO MUCH OF THE TAX PAID SUPPORT OF ILLEGAL ALIENS. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT STEPPED IN AND BURNED OUR BALLOTS AND DECLARED OUR ELECTION UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Millions of Californians will never, ever forget this.
I did. And then I watched the WTC documentry. It will be hard to sleep after watching that.
There was no need for the WTC if the government had been doing it's job.
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