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.
Heck of a thread you have running here. I just got up and am about 200 post behind. I hope someone will run a live thread Tuesday about 245(i).
So far Alec Baldwin and Barbra Streisand's names have been mentioned on this thread. Streisand was my selection!!
If Bush continues with this amnesty insanity, I WILL NOT VOTE FOR HIM. This is not a "scare". The only time I bluff is when I am playing poker.
At this point I don't see any real difference between Bush and a Democrat.
I would rather give the country back to the Dems than the Mexicans. At least the Dems speak English. For now anyway!!
How could she possibly miss it.
Just 18 million? Don't forget that Bush has promised to reunite the families. Figuring a family of four, (husband or wife and 2 kids) this figure could easily soar to 72 million. The government isn't flaunting that figure are they?
More illegal votes for DemoRATS and more slave labor for RepublicRATS.
Ahaha....and you're living proof that GE manufactures a 1 watt bulb. You'd be much funnier if you weren't so pathetic. Pretending to be an attorney is a pitiful way of "establishing" credibility for your communist ideas.
The influx of 3rd way socialist republicans on FR has to be tied to the Bush candidacy. You boys come busting into a conservative forum thinking that the more staunchly partisan you are as republicans the more solid your conservative credentials are. That's hilarious. Toddle off and find a republican socialist forum where you can bask in the dimwitted admiration of people dumb enough to think you know what you're talking about. There aren't any people like that here, except for your little clique.
I can picture you and Dane getting married and having a slew of little dimbulb, lickspittle kids. The image is very comical.
Actually more hysterics from PRS.
Cheaply done also.
Oh BTW, your list is a list of malcontnets, IMHO. A lot of them are/were voters for Buchanan and there are some hypocritcal "Libertarians" on the list also.
So your list doesn't scare me, your ignorance of immigration and how immigration made this country great does.
BTW, where were your ancestors from? Shouldn't you be shipped back to where you came from?
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