[sinkspur]

If Tancredo's guest worker plan is "not that much different" than the Bush Amnesty, why isn't Tancredo supporting the President's plan?

Ask him. He said he won't vote against Bush over this immigration issue.

[Sabertooth]

*If Tancredo's guest worker plan is "not that much different" than the Bush Amnesty, why isn't Tancredo supporting the President's plan?

**Ask him. He said he won't vote against Bush over this immigration issue.

Misleading, and I suspect you know it.

Tancredo has said he supports Bush's reelection.

Tancredo hasn't said he wouldn't vote against the Bush Amnesty, if it came up.

I know, I know; your reply was sufficiently vague that it wasn't quite a falsehood. However, you're savvy enough to know that some folks would have taken a false inference from it, and having posted anyway, it doesn't appear you would have minded.

The reason Tancredo won't support the Bush Amnesty is precisely because it is quite different from his own guest worker plan, as you know and contrary to what you said at #4.

[dagnabbit]

Reading is Fundamental.

Bush's amnesty is an amnesty. Under his scheme, people illegally in the United States get their illegal status legalized.

Under Tancredo's Bill, there is no amnesty. People illegally in the United States get nothing. Nada. (Nothing except more enforcement heat directed at them and their law-breaking employers).

Now (though I wish there wasn't) there is a guest worker provision in Tancredo's bill. Under that program, people living in another country may apply at US embassies for guest worker visas for certain jobs, allowing them to work in the USA for a maximum of one year out of any two. While illegal aliens now in the USA could conceivably leave the USA and apply for guest worker visas, they would be unlikely to get them because existing immigration law would penalize them for their illegal stays with exclusions of 3 to 10 years.