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Tancredo doubts he can block amnesty-extension bill
Denver Post ^ | March 8, 2002 | Bill McAllister

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.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: freetrade; hughhewitt; immigrantlist; nwo; terrorwar
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To: carreon
Really you ought to spend your time by fixing up that country Mexico. It's a big mess.
1,321 posted on 03/10/2002 4:27:46 PM PST by FITZ
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To: Reaganwuzthebest
Well, he is isn't he? None of us want to work on turning America into a cesspool, while he is perfectly willing to do it. See, another hard working, industrius immigrant.
1,322 posted on 03/10/2002 4:27:49 PM PST by Oregon Coast Conservative
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To: VA Advogado
I showed you a number of supreme court cites which proved you wrong. Twodees has been licking your butt since.

You have showed me no supreme court cites, and I would love to continue this, but I hear their are illegals in Phoenix and I am going to go round up a few and deny their amnesty.

Goodnight.

1,323 posted on 03/10/2002 4:30:22 PM PST by Marine Inspector
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To: Arleigh
"Whatever happened to the battle cry of, "No taxations without representation"? "

Seems to me that was over only a 1% tax too. Geez, where are we at now..heading towards 50% (in fact I think some are already there) by the time you figure sales taxes, death taxes, property taxes, etc. Perhaps I am naive, but that seems to me closer to slavery than to free people.

1,324 posted on 03/10/2002 4:31:16 PM PST by sweetliberty
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To: Vallandigham
Ain't it great to know at night that plenty of the guys and gals in the turbine room and reactor room of a United States aircraft carrier are not even American citizens?

Or even manning a 30 Cal belt fed mounted on a MP Humvee. I talked to one private at Bragg who bragged about his mother being a communist who fought with Ortega in Nicrauga,and who was here illegally. Another was a E-4 from Haiti,who may have been the laziest and most useless E-4 I have ever seen in my life.Not only that,but he would lie and place the blame for his screw-ups on others. He DID know the exact number of days left before he could demand another promotion,though.

Oh yeah,these people get on the fast track for instant citizenship for serving one enlistment.

1,325 posted on 03/10/2002 4:31:28 PM PST by sneakypete
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To: Vallandigham
From Selective Service:

NON-CITIZENS

Some non-citizens are required to register. Others are not. Noncitizens who are not required to register with Selective Service include men who are in the U.S. on student or visitor visas, and men who are part of a diplomatic or trade mission and their families. Almost all other male noncitizens are required to register, including illegal aliens, legal permanent residents, and refugees. The general rule is that if a male noncitizen takes up residency in the U.S. before his 26th birthday, he must register with Selective Service. For a more detailed list of which non-citizens must register, see Who Must Register - Chart .

1,326 posted on 03/10/2002 4:33:20 PM PST by Brownie74
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To: Semaphore Heathcliffe
I second that!!!
1,327 posted on 03/10/2002 4:33:37 PM PST by Be active
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To: Oregon Coast Conservative
If they get aroused enough, they eventually let it out what their real intentions are. None of us are fooled about this "we only do the work you won't" bull.
1,328 posted on 03/10/2002 4:33:48 PM PST by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: Semaphore Heathcliffe
IIRC, some son or otherwise close relative of a honcho in a Middle East terrorist pit was actually an officer in the US military.

The son of one of the war lords in Somalia was a Corporal in the USMC reserves. I THINK he was Adid's son,but may be wrong about that last detail.

1,329 posted on 03/10/2002 4:34:21 PM PST by sneakypete
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To: Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy
He don't get it, and no matter how many times we show it to him, he still won't get it.

I think the best thing everyone on this thread should do is completely ignore him and Dane. That's my plan. You can't debate with a bozo.

1,330 posted on 03/10/2002 4:34:30 PM PST by Marine Inspector
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To: sarcasm
There is no way that I would even consider voting for Bush again.

If immigration--both legal and illegal--is allowed to continue at its current rate, voting for any other issues won't matter; before long, democrats will form 90% of America's population, and that will be that.

Next election, I'm voting for whichever candidate puts halting immigration first--even if that candidate is Gore or Hillary!

1,331 posted on 03/10/2002 4:34:49 PM PST by Age of Reason
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To: VA Advogado
You know good and well one EO issued would settle the entire question. Who you trying to kid here?
1,332 posted on 03/10/2002 4:37:09 PM PST by MissAmericanPie
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To: Marine Inspector
but I hear their are illegals in Phoenix and I am going to go round up a few and deny their amnesty.

Please do ---I really don't want to have to answer the door to hundreds of Mexicans fresh over the border asking me to write them a notarized letter so they can get their amnesty. Last time one was an 18 year old girl asking me to write that I had employed her for 5 years. She became a little angry when I wouldn't---but I'm sure she found someone who would.

1,333 posted on 03/10/2002 4:38:15 PM PST by FITZ
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To: carreon
We are taking our old land back and there is nothing you peoble can do about it!

Keep your pants on, cabron. Before you celebrate too much: don't ever lose sight of the fact that the US government is tying our hands. It would otherwise be a very different situation.

1,334 posted on 03/10/2002 4:38:41 PM PST by Semaphore Heathcliffe
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To: sneakypete
The son of one of the war lords in Somalia was a Corporal in the USMC reserves. I THINK he was Adid's son,but may be wrong about that last detail.

Corporal, officer, it's all the same after 2000 posts on one thread. : )
dennisw corraborates your memory of Adid's connection.

1,335 posted on 03/10/2002 4:43:10 PM PST by Semaphore Heathcliffe
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To: FITZ
Recently Fox and Castaneda were demanding something be done about US citizens in Arizona and the treatment of illegals by them. More and more we are seeing Mexican leaders and Consulates who believe they have some authority in the US.

Just seeing this go on in OUR country and Jorge Bush seemingly condoning it throws me in a blind rage. What is wrong with this guy?

I now see that the greater danger is when a president turns against his supporters. Like many have said, if Clinton or Gore tried pulling this the rage within the conservative ranks would be so great they wouldn’t be able to get away with it or even bring it up. While I don't believe Bush to be an evil man I do think what he is doing to America with his insane open borders policies is truly evil.

1,336 posted on 03/10/2002 4:44:30 PM PST by WRhine
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To: blueriver
Over 70% of the United States annual population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida, and New York) results from immigration.

The cost of immigration to the American taxpayer in 1997 was a NET (after subtracting taxes immigrants pay) $70 BILLION a year,[Professor Donald Huddle, Rice University].

The lifetime fiscal impact (taxes paid minus services used) for the average adult Mexican immigrant is a NEGATIVE $55,200, [Center for Immigration Studies, 2001].

http://www.balance.org/

1,337 posted on 03/10/2002 4:44:43 PM PST by Be active
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To: carreon
carrion, we're an armed people.
1,338 posted on 03/10/2002 4:45:15 PM PST by monkeywrench
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To: Age of Reason
Next election, I'm voting for whichever candidate puts halting immigration first--even if that candidate is Gore or Hillary!

Yup, me too!

1,339 posted on 03/10/2002 4:47:05 PM PST by HennepinPrisoner
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To: Semaphore Heathcliffe
make that 1300 posts on one thread. It only seems like 2000. I'm thinking I need a life.
1,340 posted on 03/10/2002 4:47:07 PM PST by Semaphore Heathcliffe
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