Tancredo doubts he can block amnesty-extension bill

Denver Post ^ | March 8, 2002 | Bill McAllister

[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.

[WRhine]

BTTT.

[PRND21]

He could say something like...

You and Vallandigham really do miss Clinton, don't you?

You Propagangsters are easily spotted by your tactics and sign up dates.
It's comforting that no-one takes this version of lib shillery seriously...2,400 posts of mostly back slapping and baseless fear mongering.

Pathetic.
I love it!

[let freedom sing]

That Giant Sucking Sound

Powered by NAFTA and the WTO

[WRhine]

Er, Umm, I guess when you turn INS over to a nitwit who does nothing except cry about the fact that he's in charge of an agency he "doesn't agree with", and some of this agency's "customers" go and kill 3000 human beings, that probably qualifies as already letting the country get burned down. Kinda like putting the Arellano-Felix brothers in charge of DEA.

Man alive do you have that right. Bush obviously needs a crippled INS to keep the Mexican invasion going full steam and make possible his open border plans with Mexico. No other explanation makes sense.

I'm not sure this country can take another 3 years with this guy at the helm coming off of the mess Clinton left behind which Bush seemingly wants to make worse. The Bush Agenda must be stopped in its tracks. I'm looking for ideas on that too.

[dougherty]

That's a great picture, and so true. We are FULL!

[Egg]

That's it?! Nearly 2,400 posts from irate people who care about their country, and all you can say is "at least Bush isn't Clinton."?! Talk about pathetic shillery, indeed!

[dougherty]

The Bush-forever supporters might think about how they'd look to the rest of the world if they went as far as to take a page from Saddam's Iraq and started painting W.'s picture on the sides of our public buildings.

Don't give them any ideas, lol. If I'm ever driving down the street and see a building with his image on it, I'll turn into a vandal and spray-paint all over it.

[WRhine]

That was a devastating piece on how the elite are able to control people. I've seen this up close and you describe their methods and mechanism of control in a very lucid way. Yep, most people in their desire to fit in will blindly accept a lot of crazy stuff without even thinking about it.

[A CA Guy]

Respectfully I must say I think there is no consevative party at this time.

The Libertarians try to say they are with their whopping .0003% of the vote, but they are not a balanced party IMO.

I will vote Simon and the rest is history.

[dougherty]

Great post. This is most definitely not the same American that fought and won World War II.

[dougherty]

This was a mass collusion and was not by accident a win by one vote.

You got that right. They all have their hands in the pot, Tancredo being the exception.

[dougherty]

If the guy really wanted to "help Mexico", what a about a big check?

Didn't we give them a four billion dollar 'loan' a few years ago? Giving money to Mexico is like giving money to some despot ruler in Africa. But, I know what you're saying, I'd rather cut them a check than take their millions of uneducated, unskilled people.

[goldstategop]

A loss by ONE vote for our side.

[Twodees]

As much as I hate to belabor the obvious, your idol, Tio Jorge Bush is a very popular fellow among democrats. This crap of accusing anyone who opposes his liberal socialist policies of being a liberal socialist is about as smart as anything else you've ever posted here.

Democrats are ecstatic over the passage of this bill, especially those who pretend, like Bush, to be "conservatives".