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.
I think it was a way to get a little more on the side..that is how business and government are run there
Geee we had to give a cop a bag of chips and a can of soda so we didn't get a ticket (we were not doing anything...but it was his lunch time)
Coming soon to a state near you!
Michael Savage is awesome when it comes to speaking out about this travesty! I was listening to him last Saturday on the way to our monthly FReeper meeting and he was fired up!
Just who the h**l do these people think they are??? Who are they to be DEMANDING of US. Next thing you know we'll have another entire race of people who are DEMANDING reparations!! I guess by that kind of reckoning I could bust in your house and demand that you provide me with shelter, food and medical care and education should I want it, and furthurmore, I could demand restitution for all the aggravation of taking what I think is rightfully mine because at one time my parents might have lived in the neighborhood and some greedy developer offered them a price they couldn't refuse for their home and obviously that is YOUR fault!
I just can't believe that Bush and all these congresspeople think this is a good idea!!! Something is seriously wrong with this picture!
And given their respect for the law, we can be sure they will rush right down and register too! < /sarcasm >
Here is a Link To Selective Service. Note that it says that even illegal aliens must register.
Now!
Hmmm, shades of the 90's.
Keep up the good work, and I'll talk to you in a week,
MI
Wait'll the sneaky, pandering, sell-out, four-flushing, back-stabbing, double-dealing, Texas snake-in-the-grass sees '2004.
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