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Tancredo doubts he can block amnesty-extension bill
Denver Post ^ | March 8, 2002 | Bill McAllister

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.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: freetrade; hughhewitt; immigrantlist; nwo; terrorwar
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To: Vallandigham
BTTT
2,721 posted on 03/20/2002 7:56:03 PM PST by RnMomof7
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To: Vallandigham
Vallandigham

Thanks for keeping us posted on this travesty.

2,722 posted on 03/20/2002 8:16:39 PM PST by Barnacle
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To: Vallandigham
I contacted my senators. I kept it short and to the point. They aren't really going to read and appreciate any eloquence or rational. If I'm lucky, some flunky will peruse it and check a list under the heading "Against".
2,723 posted on 03/20/2002 8:42:10 PM PST by Barnacle
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To: Vallandigham
What an incredible shame for the Republican Party that it took Democrat Robert Byrd to have the honesty to point out the insanity of amnesty

I wouldn't get too excited about Byrd yet--there's a good chance he's just holding out for more pork.

OTOH, the rise of the Islamic militantcy, combined with the established worldwide network, may be working in our favor on this one. I've no doubt that some of these guys, along with some captains of industry, had plans to retire to some distant place away from the mess they're creating. Since Americans have now become targets everywhere, they need to maintain some safety at home if they want any hope of a pleasant retirement.

2,726 posted on 03/21/2002 1:44:53 AM PST by Lion's Cub
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To: Vallandigham
Thanks for all your work on this thread. We have spoken - now we will have to ride this one out.
2,727 posted on 03/21/2002 3:19:30 AM PST by Brownie74
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To: Lion's Cub; Vallandigham
Thanks to a posting by sarcasm on the thread
'Arab terrorists' crossing border: Middle Eastern illegals find easy entrance into U.S. from Mexico
we now have a link to the latest speech by Tancredo out of the Congressional Record:

Tancredo, March 21st, 2002

2,728 posted on 03/21/2002 3:27:09 AM PST by flamefront
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To: PRS
Everything in America has been turned upside down. Illegal immigrant advocasy groups are protected, law abiding citizens are not. The evil elite new world order multinational corporate traitors who control the media and both political parties must be brought to justice.
2,729 posted on 03/21/2002 4:26:53 AM PST by majordivit
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To: Vallandigham
Jessie Helms is co sponsering this bill? Will wonders never cease. Well, Helms is an old man who won't be around much longer but he has a moral responsibility to ensure that future generations have the same if not better way of life as his generation had. Helms is falling on his sword for Jorge buush' globalist nightmare..
2,730 posted on 03/21/2002 4:36:11 AM PST by majordivit
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To: Vallandigham
The Mexicans in question are illegals because they have overstayed their visas. But because they have entered America legally, the president prefers to describe them as lawful inhabitants

New speak? Jorge Bush has read George Orwell

90% of Americans oppose granting amnesty to illegal immigrants and over 90% of Americans oppose all illegal immigration. So why do a majority of our 'representatives' in Congress support granting amnesty for illegals? Simple, our so called representatives are controlled by the evil elite new world order corportate traitors who control the media and both political parties.

2,731 posted on 03/21/2002 4:45:03 AM PST by majordivit
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To: flamefront
Thanks for that Tancredo link. Pretty good description of the problem for those who might be unaware.

As for puting the agency under Homeland Security, I'd like to study that idea a bit more before I support it.

2,732 posted on 03/21/2002 5:02:39 AM PST by Lion's Cub
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To: Lion's Cub
As for puting the agency under Homeland Security, I'd like to study that idea a bit more before I support it.

Why do we even need Ridge and Homeland Security in the first place? We already have enough laws and agencies to handle the problem if this administration would just start enforcing the laws.

Enforcing the laws? What a novel concept.[/sarcasm]

2,733 posted on 03/21/2002 9:04:41 AM PST by Brownie74
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To: HeartbrokenMom
I feel your pain. In fact, your post could have been written by me. The same things are happening in my once-peaceful town. When will people wake up?
2,734 posted on 03/21/2002 9:23:56 AM PST by Nea Wood
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To: HeartbrokenMom
They live 10 or 12 to small apartments or trailers, and they know that welfare will take care of their emergencies and/or supplement their low-wage jobs, if needed. They invite their aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews (by the hundreds) ~ not to mention friends (by the hundreds) ~ to join them here (also illegally) and have cheered for those who "made it" across the border after 9/11.

To add insult to injury Bush on the eve of his UN trip to Mexico "promised initiatives to ease the plight of would-be illegal immigrants", saying, "There are people in our neighborhood who hurt". Looks like America has its first Mexican President. The guy is a disgrace.

2,735 posted on 03/21/2002 11:52:47 AM PST by WRhine
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To: Vallandigham
Ping!
2,737 posted on 03/22/2002 8:05:55 AM PST by RnMomof7
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To: WRhine
The Republican Party has sold us (Conservatives) down the river in Illinois, maybe even nation wide.

Does anyone know what life is like in New Zealand or Ireland?

2,738 posted on 03/22/2002 8:26:23 AM PST by Barnacle
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To: Vallandigham
Save that sequence. I saw it on FAIR's website also. Thought someone might post it. Whenever a denier shows up, post it in his face.
2,739 posted on 03/22/2002 9:42:30 AM PST by Regulator
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