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.
Sure, like killing babies? I guess that's not hard to overlook when you're among friends. < /sarcasm>
I think life and death (murder)are the two choices for these folks.
Hopefully I can round up a few more, before Bush gets his way.
I have been concerned about this ever since Bush revealed that he was not only going to maintain the status quo of not enforcing our immigration laws but incredibly encourage more illegal immigration. Yes, through the din of war much sinister legislation can be accomplished while the public has their eyes elsewhere.
I bet the illegal I deported today would have liked a laywer like you on his side.
Great work Marine Inspector. I know you got a tough job and I'm happy that we have patriots like you enforcing the law of land and protecting US!
Dane, how do you feel about people spreading lies about you?
We agree on this, but do you agree that illegal Mexicans are the biggest welfare burden on the American taxpayer.
I live in Arizona, and Colorado has a very little problem compared to this state. It only a matter of time before the State goes broke because of the welfare burden of the illegal alien population.
This concerns you...Yeah Right. When we have a population of 3rd world illegals in this country that is growing at an exponential rate and our treasonous politicians allow them to vote you can kiss any welfare reform goodbye. In fact, only a moron would expect anything other than more and more welfare and ever-higher taxes as their numbers grow.
Any specific suggestions, ace?
At least up til fifteen years ago, most of the jobs that are currently heavily (if not exclusively) worked by Mexicans were worked primarily by blacks and whites. Many of them high school kids. Yard workers, grocery grunts, burger types, construction/road crews. This is the kind of stuff that I and all my friends (white kids all) did from early teens to early twenties.
Sometime in the past fifteen years, whites around here have stopped expecting their kids to work. It's possible to go weeks at a time without seeing a white kid doing the jobs in that stratum of employment. Why did they stop? They want a better life for their kids, so they don't make them stoop to the dirty work? Or, the Mexicans have driven down wages to the extent that whites won't work for so little. Hard to say, because if you travel in PA, WI, MN, and IA, for example, mostly it's white kids doing that work. Maybe not the construction, that's more adults. Whatever the case, it's become a perpetuating cycle in Texas. Because when the white kids stopped working, the Mexicans stepped in. And now there's one entire generation, maybe two, of white kids who have never seen white kids doing that work. It's "what Mexicans do."
So Mexicans do the work. And they will live fifteen people to an apartment, drive without insurance, shop at garage sales, get free health care and education. Very low overhead lifestyles. They live like that and get paid something like the equivalent of $50/hr (if we were to crash some border and do the same in another, more prosperous country). Plenty of money sent back to Mexico every Friday.
And this is where it starts getting really sticky sociologically, which you alluded to. Now we have in our society a group of people who literally are the lower class (with all the political implications that the lower class entails) and they are a distinct ethnic group. This cannot be a good thing. As the flow of immigrants is so high, and the motivation to assimilate is almost nil around here, there are just huge enclaves of "low class people of mestizo heritage" growing in the midst of all the whites whom they essentially serve as slaves. Very dicey.
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