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.
Don't say pretzel when speaking about W.
Mexicans are citizens of Mexico ---they used to be in Mexico. Maybe you are making the assumption that all Hispanics in the US are Mexican citizens ----they aren't. In the SW many hispanics are descended from Spaniards who came here centuries ago and settled territory that was under Spanish rule then and Mexican rule for about 25 years, but these people are not immigrants ---they have been Americans for generations and aren't requiring amnesty.
I hope you don't think that is going to be held against him. Look at Bubba-1 with his history of rape,and the whole damn Kennedy Klan,who have made the abuse of women into a family trait. And these guys are all WHITE! Do you really think the media is going to take after a "Brown Bush" for what was described as "possible stalking"? Nope,if anything,it will be excused as a part of his "passionate Latin temperment".
I suspect that they oppose only immigration into the US,where people are expected to survive and thrive(and reproduce).
You should try talking to some of those Americans who had purchased homes in Mexico and had the Mexican government show up and confiscate their homes ---the Americans were never reimbursed for their losses.
What Fox is demanding and Bush seems willing to give is complete rights and access to everything in the US for Mexicans but Americans are expected to continue to obey Mexico's immigration and other laws and have almost no rights at all in that country. This is a complete one-way deal Fox demands.
That is clearly the ultimate goal,but for right now they are willing to let the Mexicans dream of empire again because they NEED their votes to overturn our sovereignty and Bill of Rights. Once this is accomplished and corporate government is in place,the Mexicans will be quickly slapped down.
Personally, I'm very against granting amnesty and inviting others over so that they may be with their family. If family is so important, these illegals should go back to Mexico and be with their family there.
I'm also tired of the spanish being intejected into Bush's speeches. I'm a firm believer in English being our country's primary language. The president's use of spanish flies in the face of that.
Shame on us.
Bad, Bad! Americans.
Go to bed without tacos.
That'll teach us.
You got that right!
I must admit that I didn't campaign for Bush, nor did I vote for him--for this very issue alone. I have a small but rigid set of criteria for candidates that Bush met with the exception of a minimum level of nationalism. Bush exhibited far too much of a globalist orientation that reminded me of both Bush Sr. and Clinton. His support (now proven by our continued presence) of Clinton's atrocious war in Kosovo and PNTR for Red China were evidence that he is in the vein of today's leaders who can't wait to strip America of her borders and balkanize the continents.
I'm not looking for Jesus Christ as the next American president, but I don't think it's too much to ask of a candidate that he actually preserve the Union he seeks to lead.
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