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.
And I'll see yours and raise it again!
Hell, I'd vote for Barbra Streisand if she said she would stop the invasion.
What did you expect? That we would all get in cheerleading uniforms, don our tin foil hats, and yell "Gimme a B..Gimme a U....Gimme an S....Gimme and H! Goooooo Bush! We agree with everything you do!"
We are talking about a serious alteration of the lifestyles of future generations of Americans...economic and social.
Yes, your grandchildren's lives.
And yes, I am outraged about this. Most Americans do not want this and Bush is clearly ignoring the public's opinion on this issue....I suspect his pocketbook stands to benefit from this.
Actually Columbus Day would be more appropriate for your alls protest, IMHO.
No pot limit on this one!!
Maybe we should start putting out some information within the criminal illegal alien crowd that Texas has real cheap, housing, unlimited handouts, easy access to Mexico, open spaces near Crawford Texas, and they absolutely welcomes illegal aliens with open arms. And don't forget to tell them that all the business in Texas welcome cheap labor and they have lots of openings for millions of labor jobs and that the beer is real cheap.
Can we think of any else that will attract illegal aliens to Texas. Maybe if they get another 4 or 5 million illegals some of Bushs neighbors may send him a nice message.
No it's not. The argument has always been a safety issue.
The US anti-Mexican truck contingent (the trucking unions and it's drivers), contend that the Mexican trucks are unsafe, when in fact they are worried about lost wages.
My point was that, if the DOT inspects the Canadian trucks, why can't they inspect the Mexican trucks? And if they do inspect them, hold them to the same standards as we hold the Canadians.
Guatemalan trucks don't enter into the equation.
You can forget about TV. I tried that here locally and drew a blank. Talk radio isn't to keen about it either because they don't know the whole story. I had to help one of our locals out yesterday concerning the Matriculas Consulares.
He didn't realize that these illegals could get a drivers license with them and then become registered to vote under Motor Voter. And he had no idea about using them to opening checking accounts so they could send money home.
Good luck hitting the anti-immigration sites.
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