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.
I was correct. The story you posted has no relevance here. I don't know where anyone got the idea that states can't enforce their general laws against illegal immigrants. They simply cannot regulate/pass laws based on someone's alien status.
Good point!!
Tell me something. Why is it that you third way socialists think of FR as your territory? Ask the founder of FR whether we're "trailer trash rednecks" in his opinion.
LOL! Do you have tin foil instead of coffee in the morning.
America's worse nightmare - trailer trash with computers.
Show us where this is specified. Article and section, please. Also, please learn to spell the word "Constitution" and be sure to capitalize it as a gesture of respect and to show that you are referring to the US Constitution.
I do, now what about you tin foil man?
Oh, I get it now. That is the same principle as this one:
"You break into my house to rob and rape me. I shoot you. I go to jail and lose my property to pay you off when you get out of the hospital and sue me."
Yeah, that's fair. < /sarcasm >
Nor is mine. But it doesn't include handing it over to Mexicans either.
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