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 too appreciate being on the list. I believe it was Dane or VA Advigato that referred to it as a "Hall of Shame" earlier.
Well, it's a "Hall of Shame" I feel privileged to be a part of!
Well lets just put it this way, apparently Bush is supporting giving amnesty to millions of criminal illegal aliens, which will encourage many millions more to head northward, Bush backed Riordan, not Simon. To me this is somewhat revealing.
And if Simon speaks out and supports this criminal amnesty before the election, he wont get my vote.
All that it takes to qualify as a hate group today is to believe in the rule of law, the constitution and to advocate control of our out of control immigration policies. People like you are the useful idiots of the left that seek to end the American way of life as we know it. When the burgeoning mass of illegal 3rd world immigrants make it possible to vote out conservatism of every stripe in this country it will be the open border neo-con wing of the republican party that will have helped make it happen. And guess what? There is no other country like America to migrate to when life becomes unbearable here. That’s the thing about making mistakes in immigration…the mistakes are invariably PERMANENT.
Why did I vote for him? My choice was Bill Jones who did not have the bucks for TV ads (which is the info source for the idiot Joe Sixpacks of this state). I loathed Riordan. He is not only avidly pro-illegal alien, he is also for gun control. He didn't do much for the LA economy despite his promises.
I was mad as hell at Bush for pushing Riordan. If he had stayed out of the race, we might have had a chance. By the way, speculation about why Bush picked Riordan was because Bill Jones had supported McCain in the 2000 primary. So Bush's people wanted to punish him.
The BS that only a "moderate" can win in California is just that!! Peter Wilson became the governor by supporting Prop.187 (would have stopped tax payer support of illegals going to our k-12 schools, getting free medical care, and would have clamped down on fraudulent document makers!!
Unfortunately the idiot Republican who followed him (Lungren) was like Bush (making excuses for illegals)and he turned off the conservative base in disgust. So Davis won! (He also had the monetary support of the big gambling casinos on the Indian reservations in CA, as well as the teachers' unions, and the govt employee unions.
Well you still have to get the guy elected governor now don't ya? But good luck. But friend, 2004 is just around the corner, ya'll had better get that "great white hope" out of hiding pretty soon.
Well you still have to get the guy elected governor now don't ya? But good luck.
Not only the immigrants' kids put a strain on the social welfare system; just think of the displaced AMERICAN workers and those that work for less wages than they used to because of illigals. They will be turning to the system as well. I work in a grocery store and I see more and more people who would never be caught dead using food stamps in the past using them now. These are not dead beats by any streach of the imagination. They work, but just no longer make enough money to make ends meet.
Another thing that I laugh at is the oft used statement that "they are taking jobs that no one else wants." Well I say that when you take a gander at the level of education that kids coming out of the schools today have, about the only thing many of them are qualified to do are these "jobs that no one wants." Folks, let's face it, not everyone is cut out to be an engineer or a doctor, or to have some IT job. Just because they don't have the mental capacity to learn to do these types of high level jobs doesn't mean they are not good people and hard workers, and I don't think they deserve to be subjected to a life of abject poverty or a ward of the state. The presence of illigal aliens are driving down the wages in these low skill sectors to the point that that is the future they face. This is a sure fire formula to much civil strife and even civil war.
Bush will escalate the war to such a level, we shall be obliged not to notice any domestic actions.
We shall look like Lebanon, Israel & the Balkins combined, in a few short years.
I shall BURN my voter registration card & mail the ashes to the RNC. Nothing we do matters any longer. They have complete control over all affairs.
Bush will escalate the war to such a level, we shall be obliged not to notice any domestic actions.
We shall look like Lebanon, Israel & the Balkins combined, in a few short years.
I shall BURN my voter registration card & mail the ashes to the RNC. Nothing we do matters any longer. They have complete control over all affairs.
While you were condemning President Eisenhower for Operation Wetback.
Hmmm, my "bosses". I am not using scare tactics just facing reality. If you or anyone else can put forward the name of a true conservative of ANY party that has a chance of winning an election then let's tee it up and see what happens.
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