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.
How cute.
However, the folks at NumbersUSA and FAIR have announced that they will record and publish the voting records, and that a vote "Yea" will be recorded as being against responsible immigration.
Call Speaker Hastert, 202-225-2976 - and ask him how he's enjoying his last term as Speaker of the House?
If they think I and others won't base their future votes on this bill if it passes, then the only way they can count on me to vote for Pres. Bush, is to oppose him with either Hitlery or Gore - because that's the only way they can guarantee that I won't be able to vote for a Democrat. (Egads, I should have given myself a "Barf Alert" for that last sentence!)
Hastert 202-225-2976 phone
Army 202- 225-7772 phone
Delay 202-225-5951 phone
I think the overreaching aim here, is to make sure we don't have borders-- by order of NAFTA and WTO.
According to the Wash. Times the 245I vote will be cloaked, meaning that the reps vote will NOT be recorded. The numbersUSA site is indicating that the votes will be recorded. See Below:
The House is scheduled to vote on the Section 245(i) amnesty next Tuesday (March 12). Although the White House had been pushing to have the House pass 245i without a vote by attaching it in Conference Committee to an authorization bill, it now appears there will be a roll call vote on the issue. Now is the time to act. Your phone calls are urgently needed.
That's rich. Almost as much of a lie as the U.S.A. Patriot act. GODDDDADDDDDDDITTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!
EBUCK
UPDATE: U.S. House: Illegal Immigrants in U.S. LIVE today 2 pm ET on C-SPAN
I'm done with you, imbecile. You're not a conservative, you aren't an attorney and you most assuredly are not a FReeper. Go find a forum for imbeciles and stop wasting the time of people here.
Your buddy got his ignorant, foulmouthed head handed to him here.
No on 245i. Mexico will do nothing about possible terrorist illegals they let pass thru our borders.
The old people I knew who kept saying in the 60's that the GOP would never be conservative no matter how many of us joined it knew exactly what they were talking about. When I saw thousands of Southern conservatives lining up in 2000 for the koolaid handed out by a Connecticut yankee pretending to be a Texan, it appeared to me that this world is just too ridiculous a place to be believed.
I hate to be so mean, but IMO, anyone who ever believed that Bush was a conservative is too far gone to ever really be awakened. They'll get a little ticked off, but come election time, their eyes will glaze over again and they'll close ranks, chanting, " At least he ain't a Dem". You watch. I've seen it too many times in the past 20 years.
Continue to be a beacon to all who love freedom? Oh sure the illegals love the freedom to come to America to prey on American citizens. After all, 50 percent of the criminals in federal prison are illegal aliens. This sickening attempt by Bush and the GOP in congress to pander to the 'hispanic' will go down in history as the turning point in American politics. Both political parties are corrupt. Both political parties spit on the consitution, the rule of law and spit on the way of future generations of Americans.
NOTE.. I just called the majority leaders office. I asked the staff person how Armey intends to vote. She said she had no idea and that he has been going back and forth and that the vote is expected at around 6:30 pm et today. I then asked her what his last stated position was. She said she wouldn't have that type of information.... Thats when I ripped into her saying I would bet all your money and all the money from all the people in that office that he will vote in favor of amnesty for the illegals. In order to pander to hispanics he intends to spit on the constitution, the rule of law and the way of life for future generations of Americans. I said it's a heck of a way for a DICK Armey to leave office. Who knows, maybe Bush will nominate DICK to head the INS...That is if Bush doesn't propose dismantling it...
EBUCK
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