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.
Mexican citizens can own real estate in America. But Americans can't own real estate in Mexico. That's a huge barrier to American investment south of the border.
Mexico is a corrupt kleptocracy, and that corruption shouldn't be allowed to erase our laws and borders...
Neither should President Bush.
I'm guessing that there was some dealin goin on before Bush got the seat. Now, since he's a man of his word, pay-up time it is, and next on the list are his mexican financiers.
EBUCK
You are absolutely correct. Bush is using the war on terrorism as cover to ramp up the Mexican invasion to high gear as if it wasn't high enough already. Instead of using his political capital to protect our borders and fight of tide of illegal immigration in the U.S. which was a direct cause to 9/11 Bush perversely chooses to do the exact opposite! This staggers the imagination.
Then again, why should he care? He and his family will always have their millions and and can afford to live the high life and not have to deal with the negative aspects of illegal immigration like Joe American Public will.
In fact, they help him and his family get even wealthier.
Good work Joe. Been doing the same.
Like, maybe, U.S. troops being used to protect Mexican illegal aliens coming across the border, so that they can change the ethnic makeup of the United States, obliterate the border, declare a North American Union which is run by a 'select group', not subject to a vote?
Oh sorry. That's only tinfoil hat stuff, right? The same as an American president calling opposition to illegal immigration "discrimination". I mean, that could never happen, right?
Wait, wait, oh yeah! Just a few posts up! An American President DID say that!
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.
As long as the Mexican truck passes the same DOT inspection as the Canadian truck, then there is no reason not to let it in. IMHO.
We the people of the United Western Hemisphere (UWH), in order to subvert the prosperous people of the United States Of America (heretofore known as the "host"), do hearby declare that all UWH countries (heretofore known as the "parasites") no longer need to become prosperous on their own. They may enrole in the USA-Parasite program (not to be refered to as national welfare under penalty of fines, imprisonment, or both) to alleviate their suffering....
EBUCK
EBUCK
I mean, housing is a family value, right?
We should demand nothing less for the poor of Mexico.
I'm convinced Mr. Bush will donate his property. Especially since he seems so determined to donate mine.
Are the Canadian and Mexican truck inspections the same?
Yeah right.
That's one of the things I hate about INS. We catch a Mexican Illegal and we through the book at them, but if we catch a Canadian Illegal, we just give them a slap on the hand and let them go. That's discrimination.
As soon as I scrap enough pennies together, I will join VetsCoR. Until then, keep up the good work.
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