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.
Welcome to the club! It's not a large club,but it's growing larger daily.
It's amazing how we ever got along before the Mexican Invasion. Do you know who did the work that Americans' didn't want to do 30 years ago? And do you have any more worn out brain dead mantras about how unlimited 3rd world immigration is good for America?
Should read: I just don't understand why you are attacking the same people that do all the crime you won't do?
Or
I just don't understand why you are attacking the same people that suck up all the wellfare money that you won't suck up?
Or
Well... You get the point.
What part of ILLEGAL DON"T YOU UNDERSTAND.
OH BOY!! LOL!!
If you go through all the posts on this thread you won't see any of us attacking legal immigrants. This is about our opposition against rewarding those who broke our laws. The US was founded on the rule of law. I prefer to keep it that way. And we don't need illegals to mow our lawns or flip our burgers. We did it before they came here, and we'll do it when they leave.
As long there is need of cheep labor Mexicans will come
Sheesh. That's hilarious.
Correct me if I'm wrong,but didn't you jump all over me a while back for saying basically the same thing? There have been so many it's hard for me to keep track of all of them.
Bubba-2 is going to be a one-termer,just like that elitist butthole he calls "Dad".
And yet another one bites the dust! Welcome to the club. It may be the oddest "club" you've even been a member of,since nobody WANTED to join it.
I don't sit in on Bush family meetings,but I'd be willing to bet that some Bush family members end up with "Sweetheart" deals on oil and other mineral contracts with the Mexican gooberment,and that they are setting the stage for George "The Latino" Bush to be the first president of the new super-state,"North American Union". After all,the majority of these voters will speak Spanish,and he not only speaks Spanish,but he is one of them.
Can you say "New World Order/The Third Way/Corporate Government"?
You are either an illegal alien yourself or live a highly sheltered life. Oh and welcome to Free Republic.
You're right - It was either Bush or Gore so you had to pick the lesser of two evils.
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