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 got that right, but there are more than just two of 'em.
Do you usually just say whatever pops in your head or would you like to offer some evidence for this charge?
I said keep up the independent attitude, not the Independent Party. It was the Independent Attitude that caused the Revolution, not membership in a Party.
I don't recruit for ANY "Party". And since it's impossible to get ALL Independents to agree on a "Party" platform, the best that CAN be done is to vote for your favorite "non-GOP" or "non--Dem" candidate. Unless you feel a strong urge to just Belong to the corrupt two parties, that are actually opposing Mobs, and continue the march to Globalism.
More like the "Hall of People who are Smart Enough to Know What is Going to Happen"....a group I am proud to be associated with.
Wow that almost same passage was said 100 years ago and America is not extinct.
Wow you are the first person on FR who claims that he is in the same hall as Miss Cleo.
You are using UK and Australian spellings in your posts. Are you even IN the US?
You are using UK and Australian spellings in your posts. Are you even IN the US?
LOL! I have already stated many replies ago that I from Pittsburgh.
Getting back to your reply #587 do you and Ms. Cleo have meetings in your ""Hall of People who are Smart Enough to Know What is Going to Happen".." weekly or monthly?
I won't be fooled again!
"so you want "expensive" food"
How much of the cost of a head of lettuce goes to pay field workers? According to the University of California, is costs around 22 cents to grow and harvest a head of lettuce. Of that, about 15 cents goes for farm labor. If we doubled the wages of farm workers, the cost of a head of lettuce would increase by fifteen cents -- even less if labor saving machines are justified. For labor costs to force lettuce to $5 per head, farmers would have to pay field workers $280 an hour. At that rate, it would be the kind of work "every American would want to do."
The problem with illegal immigration is not that labor costs too much; it is that growers compete in a commodity market. If one grower can outdo another by using illegal labor, then his profits will increase. Inevitably, all growers must do the same thing to survive. As recent studies show, illegal immigration is driving down the wages of millions of Americans, while at the same time increasing their taxes. To stop this downward spiral we must control the borders and police the work site as well.
I represent that remark. I will stay that way as long as Presidente Jorge keeps up his nonsense about ammesty for illegals.
Sure. Lets try first right here at their website. They are an aryan organization apparently with a compound up in the hills of Northern Michigan.
Don't forget the "one-time" illegal alien amnesty deal of the 1980's.
Bush makes #3.
Here's a nice quote that might be consistent with some of the beliefs you hold near and dear:
"FAIR claims to favor restricted immigration to protect US workers, and to ensure that the US has resources to provide for the people already here. However, many view FAIR as a hate group. FAIR was founded 20 years ago, ostensibly because of concerns about overpopulation. Memos written by the group’s founder, John Tanton, show that the group may have racist overtones. According to this memo, English should be the official language, there is a danger of a Hispanic “population explosion,” and the large number of new immigrants who are Roman Catholic is a concern. Critics of FAIR point out that these are the same concerns expressed by those who opposed the high level of immigration in the early 1900s." LINK
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