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.
You've already revealed that you support the destruction of America, and you have no respect for the law. What is it that you do not understand? Please present where you live, and your position. I'm curious as to whether you are an illegal yourself, whether you profit from the invasion, or whether you are far removed from the bulk of the invasion that you are ignorant to reality.
Actually the American economy provides a living for these people. If there wern't the jobs that go begging, they wouldn't be here.
8 million illegals here from Mexico aren't picking fruit. A relatively few are doing that ---and much fruit is picked by machines now --that is actually a far more efficient way.
I actually once witnessed an anti-Mexican zealot confessing that he had voted against the initiative ending bilingual education in California. His reasoning was that knowledge of English would make the "brown cockroaches" more acceptable to Whites and make their deportation more difficult.
Remarks By The President To The Hispanic Chamber Of Commerce
"I want to talk about another subject that's incredibly important for not only the border states, but all of America. And that's relations with our neighbors to the south, Mexico.
Mexico is a friend of America. Mexico is our neighbor. And we want our neighbors to succeed. We want our neighbors to do well. We want our neighbors to be successful. We understand that a poor neighbor is somebody that's going to be harder to deal with than a neighbor that's prospering. And that's why it's so important for us to tear down barriers and walls that might separate Mexico from the United States. And that's why it's so important for us to stand strong when it comes to free trade with our neighbors to the south.
NAFTA has been good for New Mexico, and it's been good for Mexico. And that's an important relationship that I pledge to continue on. I ask -- I ask for the Congress -- I ask for the Congress to give me trade promotion authority, so that we can not only have free trade with our neighbor to the south, so that we can have free trade throughout the hemisphere.
Oh, I know there's some voices who want to wall us off from Mexico. They want to build a wall. I say to them, they want to condemn our neighbors to the south in poverty, and I refuse to accept that type of isolationist and protectionist attitude. (Applause.)
And let me say one other thing, one other issue that's important. It speaks to the spirit of our nation. It speaks to whether or not we're going to be true friends with the neighbors to the south. And that's the issue of trucking. There are some people who say we shouldn't allow our friends to the south to send their trucks into the United States. I say that's discrimination against Mexico.'
In this snip he says we must take care of Mexico, plays the race card and calls those that disagree with him names. Sounds like a liberal to me.
Yep, sad but true. And the Bush kids will never have to worry about this, they don't live in the real world with the rest of us.
Actually many immigrants that went through Ellis Island did not consider themselves American and intended to go back to the "old country" after they made their fortune, but as they had families, there offspring became assimilated.
The same thing is happeneing today, such as the anti-bilingual proposition passing overwhelmingly in California.
Your view is clouded by minor groups and your outrage grows when you see thier inflammatory rhetoric "magnified" on FR, IMHO.
Ping to that..anyman that is resistant to change..well he may say something like "Islam means Peace" and "open the borders they are meaningless anyway!"
I will not vote for him again, so I hope he can give enough of the Mexican's the vote .He will need them!
Huh then America should have been dead long ago when poor illiterate immigrants from Europe swarmed the US a hundred years ago.
Seems like you scenario didn't come to pass.
Huh people said the same things about the Irish, Italian, Jewish, and Polish hordes one hundred years ago.
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