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.
I just wish those in government would get over trying to be "politically correct" and "sensitive" and have the backbone to oppose the thugs who break the law, regardless of ethnicity.
Is everyone really blind enough not to be able to see where being more concerned about not offending people and ignoring real problems is leading!!?
Yes, since all the multi-millionaire politicians and VIPs have luxury estates on a bluff in Malibu, who cares about the flood of poverty and crime invading the rest of the L.A. Basin.
After all, who is going to make their beds and tend their gardens if all of the illegal Mexicans they hired for pathetic, unfair wages get deported. Then they might be forced to pay competetive wages...let's not forget that Malibu is a long, long way from East L.A. They don't have to live anywhere near "the help."
So pray tell, how do you think Mexicans would like it if 10 million Anglos illegally invaded Mexico, demanded and got welfare, bi-lingual education, affirmative action, and all kinds of government benefits including citizenship all in the name of "fairness"?
Don't have the answer? Well you're in luck because I'm going to answer it for you. It wouldn't happen because every single nation in the world, including the UN would condenm us as imperial racists. And we wouldn't want to do it anyway. Who wants to live in a third world hellhole?
They're WORTHLESS on the issue. Rush, Sean Hannity, etc. The only talkshow hosts that I have heard say anything are Terry Anderson and Michael Savage. I was listening to Sean Hannity a couple of days ago, and his primary focus is on the Democrats and Tom Daschle. I thought, who cares! Our nation is about to commit national suicide, and this guy is wasting valuable airtime talking about insignificant things. I don't get it.
Ah, but you do get it. You've actually answered the question: the purpose of people like Rush and Hannity is to waste our time and to keep us from discussing the important issues. They're the media wing of the GOP establishment, which effectively means the neo-cons and their allies. Their purpose is to keep those of the sheeple of a conservative persuasion on the straight and narrow - that is to say, on the "conservative"/GOP plantation. That's what they're paid to do. Very well paid.
By that I mean the groundwork being put into place by --- "Arabs are the Enemy, gotta get 'em all!", "Mexicans are Invading the U.S., Deport them all", "The Chinese are gonna Nuke Us, get ready to Nuke Them!".
It worked for another regime about 70 yrs ago. And I'll specify right now --- We DO need to control our immigration, we DO need to quit arming and aiding our enemies, and we SURE have to quit playing World Cop.
But our problems that exist right now have been Created! As we all know, none of this importing Iraqis that we fought, opening the floodgates for Mexico, or losing our Nuke and Missle Secrets to China makes any Sense. We also seem to be having more Black Community unrest because of real incidents. Unless you look at a Destabilizing Entity as the central guidance giver.
We're Set-Up to become a serfdom/Principality of a World Governance Committee, and we'll have no say about it.
Just some rambling :-)
Not all of them live in Malibu. There are a whole lot more in Newport Beach, Palos Verdes, Corona Del Mar, Laguna Hills, Bel Air Estates, Beverly Glen, Coto De Caza, just to name a few others.
As I said, the politicians and politically connected and the rest of the rich elite have put up very tall and strong finanical fences in Southern California. They wont wallow in it like the rest of the hard working, average Americans will have to. Bet the rent.
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