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.
This won't even translate even on AltaVista.
And a common tactic of the anti-immigrant crowd. Like it or not these people like your ancestors came to this country for a better life. They are here. 90% of them have worked hard and busted their ass picking your food, cleaning your hotel room and washing your dishes. Jobs you would never take but you have benefited from their labor and you still give them the finger.
The amendment could be rescinded by state action much more simply than by the cumbersome method of trying to repeal reams of federal laws based on the 14th. Before the 14th, the federal government had very little say in processes of naturalization, which were all state processes. Citizenship was a state granted status and the Constitution never contained a grant of power for the federal government to grant or deny citizenship.
It's glaringly obvious that federal control of immigration is a miserable failure. It was designed to fail in every way except as a tool for manipulation of the makeup of American society. When my child gets hold of one of my tools and sets about doing something destructive with it, I take it away from her. That's what the states need to do with the federal government which is their child and not their parent.
Yep and sliding back to those who pick up and wash your dishes at a restaurant and make your bed and clean your toilet at a hotel.
They are here, you have benefitted from their labor, unless you clean your own dishes after a meal at a restaurant or make your own bed and clean your own toilet at a hotel. And you want to ship them back, for what. The crime of cleaning your toilet and washing your dishes.
Right on. What is he doing on a conservative forum anyway I wonder?
All your seesion's are belong to me.
All your seesion's are belong to me
I wasn't yelling, I just wanted to make sure that the god of no typos would hear my begging for forgivness.
Yes, you're right on that. What would a country that invented the atomic bomb and sent a man to the moon do without all these illegal aliens to scrub the toilets and wash our dishes? Why we'd collapse of course.
The more you open your mouth the less sense you make because you won't explain why I should show hospitality to lawbreaking illegal aliens.
Really, how dare he go against the conservative notion that people who have been cleaning toilets for years should be kicked out the country./sarcasm
You don't have to beg forgiveness from me. It's no big deal - just pulling your chain a little.
By the way, it is "forgiveness" not forgivness.
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