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.
Where I live, they'll steal anything that isn't bolted down. I've seen them breaking in, or attempting to break in, to cars in broad daylight, and they are absolutely brazen about it. They don't even do it sneakily or nervously, they do it absolutely openly and with defiance, no fear at all. One of my neighbors (an Hispanic gentleman, here legally,) has bought a pit bull because his window faces the street and he's had so many break-ins.
Heads up, folks! Soon to come to a neighborhood near you!
Well, I am here in Northern Virginia and they are swarming all over the place, so I can imagine how much worse it is on the border states. So, I suspect you are right. I hope everyone calls their Congressmen's office tommorrow to give them hell. Call again if you have already called and don't let up
Pathetic ! The American people are really sheeple!
If it's that high, we are real in serious trouble. Especially if a sweeping amnesty goes through. By the time their relatives, and their relatives relatives get in, we'll have a half million. And this in my lifetime.
At the risk of being called a racist and nazi, once here, they are generally having four babies to every American born. We aint seen nothing yet.
This invasion has truly gone *nationwide* .
Wouldn't doubt it. Probably be some mysterious escape. And not a peep will come of Bush. We wouldn't want to offend our friends.
Jail officers accused of murder conspiracy
Times staff report
Three El Paso County Sheriff's Department detention officers were arrested by FBI agents Thursday on charges they conspired with a jail inmate to kill two witnesses in a drug case.
The three officers indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury were identified as Jaime Silva, 41, Roberto Velasquez, 22 and Carlos Jacquez, 26.
They were charged with aiding and abetting and tampering with a witness.
According to FBI officials, the officers conspired with inmate Marco Antonio Blancas, 37, to prevent the two unidentified witnesses from testifying in Blancas' upcoming federal trial on drug charges.
The indictments and arrests culminated a six-month joint FBI and El Paso County Sheriffs Department investigation.
Yep a "show and tell" arrest....The Freeple sheeple continue to nap
I know. I see that all the time out here NW of Chicago. And because our government lacks the courage to reform the open abuses and frauds of the 14th Amendment these bambinos are U.S. Citizens. Another outrage for another time.
Well in retrospect I know I misread Bush to a great extent. I really wanted to believe that Bush represented a seismic sea change from the Clinton years of crime and treason. I better stop there. Thanks for your input on that.
1990 - 2000 % Hisp increase: Fl - 70% Ga - 300% N.C. - 394% Virginia - 106% 1990 - 2000 % Asian increase: Fl - 73% Ga - 129% N.J. - 76% N.C. - 118%
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