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.
Brownie74 has indicated he/she believes Bush is dead set wanting this....I believe likewise...to the point of being a 1 timer like the old man....
That said, isn't it interesting that Phil (not over my dead body) Gramm and Dick Armey, both power houses from Texas have opted not to fight the battle against Bush by running again....seems like that should tell people something...it's common knowledge, you don't support the party, or the President and you're done.....I believe the handwriting was on the bathroom wall....
As I just posted on another thread, Phil Gramm says he is against amnesty but for a guest workers program. I think Gramm will go against 245(i). I hope so anyway.
Following your line of logic, that would be a good way for Gramm and Armey to get a last jab in at Bush.
I really believe he doesn't care about re-election. Look at the Progress his behind the scenes guys are making toward their goals.
There is usually an assumption that a Politician CRAVES a second term. Jr. is Probably Craving to get out. This is a real chore to him.
The consolidations necessary will occur regardless of which party is in office, and now it doesn't even slow down because a Repub is in the Presidency.
It is an insult to all of us, immigrants no less than natives, to suggest that America degenerate into some form of undifferentiated humanity. A nation is not a game of muscial chairs. It is about heritage, and shared experiences, over generations. Suffering those who broke our laws--and in effect denied our right to control our own borders and communities--to come here, to remain, hardly makes any sense. I cannot understand why a basically decent, Conservative and moral man, like the President, seems to have a blind spot on this. (See Immigration & The American Future.)
William Flax
The nature of the dysron is that he does not really think. He reacts in his compulsions in response to an imagined reality that simply does not exist. The man totally misunderstands how people are wrapped psychologically, and is very dangerous in his analytic ineptitude. For the lessons we all should have learned from 2000, see Politics 2001--Lessons 2000.
Rove's idea of strategy, if the near disaster that he orchestrated in 2000 is any clue, are on the same level as the Liberal Arts Sociology Major, at Harvard or Columbia, who actually believes the propaganda of the department. He has no place advising anyone seriously seeking to understand American politics.
William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site
When I asked her if there was any other kind of bill that had to do with Amnesty or immigrant tracking she said the only bill that came close was Bill #1885. This bill is called "Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Act". Does anyone know if congress has renamed #245I to #1885 or have delayed action on 245I?
Thanks Regulator.
What is your argument? Why do you support the destruction of America? Where is your common sense? I'm serious. Are you a Mexican or "Hispanic", and do you think the law doesn't apply to people of Mexican or "Hispanic" heritage? Just curious.
My comment was not the Rove was some sort of "true believer." The term dysron, which I have coined, refers to one who has normal, or maybe above average intelligence, but is only able to analyze factors at a moronic level, because of fears and compulsions that dominate his perception--or baffle his reasoning. Rove may have succumbed to a malady that is very common among those attending the "Liberal Arts" programs at prestige Universities. He may actually believe that the myths, deliberately spread by such Fabian propagandists as Ashley Montagu and Gordon Allport, in the last Century, represent reality. And that an undifferentiated humanity is the wave of the future. (See Myths & Myth Makers In American "Higher" Education.)
The typical student who acquires this mindset is the one who is just not quite smart enough to see the obvious errors in the analysis offered, and being impressed (in the vernacular "snowed") by the poseurs on campus, lacks the confidence to even question anything that they profess. He therefore operates under a misunderstanding of reality from the outset.
William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site
Is an outcome where the President ignores what is right for the Country acceptable to you just because said President has an "R" by their name....does the "R" stand for right, as in the correct or proper thing to do?
Last August, I believe was the date, Alan Keyes made a comment about it being easier to see and fight the known enemy (he was talking about the Perverted President)...our eyes are open to 'the other side' doing things whereas when its one us 'ours' running the show, we tend to let our eyes glaze over, or just go out and plant a garden knowing everything is gonna be ok cause our guys doing it.
The last scenario has been running rampant here at FR....
Yah, lotta shutters closed to the truth here'bouts.
EBUCK
PLYLER v. DOE, 457 U.S. 202 (1982)
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