You don't want me to bring it on.
This guy look familiar Arne?
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.
A fine representative of his opinion.
It looks as if she won't be receiving my vote either. My congressman received an F. Damn gerrymandering.
You don't want me to bring it on.
This guy look familiar Arne?
In the last several days I've probably spoken to a dozen or more people about the illegal immigration problem and the fact that Congress is trying to pass Section 245(i). None of these people that I've talked to about this problem are members of Free Republic. So it's not just how many supporters there are on this thread that's important, it's how many other people those 100 supporters have spoken to about this problem.
I know you've worked hard to keep this thread alive, and you've posted a lot of good information.
But I suggest you start a new one in another hour or two, and then as many new ones as needed to keep them manageable for people who don't have the time to read 1400+ posts.
People will soon be getting ready for work, then popping in on their breaks and lunch hours. They won't have the time to click through tons of pages trying to get to ping you sent them.
BTW, I haven't had time to read through this entire thread either, so forgive me if someone already pointed this out. There are currently 43 Mexican consulates in 19 US states. The location list was posted here in reply #87. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/643540/posts?q=1&&page=51#87
When Gloria Alcantar came to the United States 22 years ago, she imagined the golden opportunities she had seen in the movies. Instead, trapped in a legal battle over a 15-year-old immigration law, she feels she never got a fair chance.
Like hundreds of thousands of immigrants in a decades-long legal dispute over the 1986 immigration amnesty law, Alcantar says she could have earned more money, secured health insurance and visited family in Mexico--if only she'd been granted a green card.
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Why doesn't the government send the bill for their 'free' health care to Mexico? I know, dumb question. As for Bush and his mantra, 'it's the right thing to do', he is totally warped. It would be the humane thing for me to do if I gathered up a bunch of homeless people and took them into my home, but common sense tells me that's crazy.
Because alien status is a protected class under our consitution and any state distiction based on that status will fail if challeged in court. See Prop 187.
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