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.
Keep going, Dane... would like some salt with your shoe? Some ketchup, perhaps?
Some families squeeze together in a single bedroom and rent their living room couch for $50 a week to a laborer.
''I do a lot of home visits, and I've seen eight to 10 people in one bedroom. The landlords turn a blind eye as long as they get paid,'' said Christina Schoendorf, who runs a youth club.
Is this your vision of America?
Uh did you read the link in reply #2237. Of course not, it doesn't jibe with your world view.
Yup....certainly. But ALL those Visa's will be taken up by Irish immigrants to the US who are currently illegal. Not Al-Queda, not Arab fundamentalists...mainly young building workin' young lads, or bar maid lassies who want to find something bigger and better for themselves.
I turn 30 on Saturday...the USA doesn't really want, or need me. Well, (A)..I'm reasonably successful over here (b)..I want to go to the US for a lot of fun and new opportunities, but not necessarily to better myself, and improve my life. I can do that here. So I should be on the back heel of visa applications, not at the front.
I want to go to the US because I love the people mainly. I love their get up and go, and I love the way they laugh at the 'lazy' Irish, who run rings around them in conversation, craic, and work too in many respects. I love that.
And I love the US verve. Why the hell do I spend so much time on FR, for cryin' out-loud. And why do I cringe when I see the ``Europe hates the US'' threads, when I know, me, as a little ol' European bucks that ingrated stereotype?
But thanks Reaguswuzthebest...(actually, I'm 30 pages off finishing ``When Character Was King'...and yes (apart from his like of Maggie Thatcher ~Irishness shinin' through~ Reagan was, THE BEST~) *S*
More salt? Or perhaps you would prefer some salsa?
Ultimately, Garcia says, the goals of the emerging legalization movement are not only to change current and future immigration policy but to "bring immigrants together with other low-income communities in a new progressive movement."
Currently our government is busy giving away all of our engineering jobs, and putting American engineers out of work. Maybe in a couple of years they will start destroying the journalist profession in this country. Just give it time.
Yes and no. Establishment journalism is a major power center of the left and of the NWO in general (both of the left and of the "right"); as such they will either not be thrown to the wolves, or they will be the very last to be. However, journalism schools and affirmative action have pretty well driven white males (and conservatives) out of the newsroom over the past 15-20 years.
I do think that the elite journalists, at least, will never see their wages undercut by immigrants. No, the elite journalists will be sipping mimosa from inside their gated communities protected by private security firms, whilst the rest of us are working at low wage jobs and trying to avoid being robbed, killed or raped by roving gangs of the "gorgeous mosaic". This is pretty much the situation throughout the Third World, as it seems to be the ideal model guiding the NWO types.
Well I sure hope FR will be wearin' shamrock next Sunday!!! :-) Well, it is St. Patrick's Day :-)
Uh where would you be if your uneducated unskilled non-english speaking ancestors hadn't came to America?
ANSWER THE QUESTION DANE
You should come to the US ----but legally. That's always an option.
Harpo? Groucho? Chico? Zeppo? Which one? Quien Sabe? Who cares?
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