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.
Behind every vote - For Prop. 39, for the bonds, against any tax reduction - was Eliseo Medina and the Service Employees International Union, which is largely made up of illegals. Who of course loves this amnesty. Isn't it nice to see the kind of people Bush hangs out with?
Straight Democrat ticket for me through 2004.I may be conservative, but I am not like the blacks in the Democrat party where you can deficate on them and still get my vote.
I appreciate the sentiment, but if you vote for the Dems you are still voting for the corrupt "two" party system. Plus the Dems have even more unredeeming features than do the GOP. Either don't vote, or vote for a third party, or write in your own candidate on the ballot (try writing in George Washington or Thomas Jefferson; if the dead can win senate seats in Missouri, well, why not?).
Also I would not give up on the GOP entirely. Remember, the system is rigged against third parties, and we have not had a new successful party since the Republicans in 1860, and they succeeded in part by cannibalizing the Whigs. If a third party representing American interests does emerge in future, it will probably do so by encouraging major defections from the GOP. Until then we need our people active within at least one of the major parties, and that in effect means the GOP...for now.
Could be though I kind of doubt it. Some other Freeper must have pushed him over the edge. Yes, anyone following politics for awhile has seen the old shell game vote trading scam. I was surprised that my rep. Don Manzullo voted Nay given his crummy score of 50% on immigration bills as compiled by numbersusa. I suspect he might have traded his vote too. Amnesty out in my neck of the woods would not sell well. Then again I did call his office about 8 times in the last 2 weeks and inundated him with e-mails and faxes.
I'm with you brother. I was pretty fanatical on Bush, but he's lost me forever at this point. Being an honest guy and a good Commander in Chief isn't enough for me when nearly every horrid bit of legislation from the Education bill, to CFR, to this insane policy has been generated by him.
FOI: Be prepared to catch a lot of hell around here from the Bushelmania crowd.
ANTI-IMMIGRATION CONSERVATIVES ARE BOTHERED BUT KNOW HE IS AS GOOD AS IT GETS RIGHT NOW.
HISPANIC CATHOLICS WILL GO WILD FOR HIM NOW, I DO BELIEVE.
THIS IS A SHREWD IF PURELY POLITICAL MOVE.
And here is some more sobering food for thought.
Quota Hiring has seen to it that a very large number of foreign and domestic-born America haters are now "legitimate" aircrew members -- and are, thanks to "seniority," working their undeserved way into Command Positions.
And as one who has had to fly around the world with this scum as crew members, I can vouch that many of them are unbelieveably dangerous even before their politics are taken under consideration!
The number is 1-800-449-8255
Yep. Just like The U.S. Patriot Act, and all of the rest of his shrewd moves.
Let 'em drop.
No, his Daddy did that. They work for jr. now. They're "Rehabilitated".
Or is that "ReCycled"?
When he said days after he won the election that he may be a one term president, that he may not run again, I went uh oh. He has brought as much if not more ruination on us than Clinton ever dreamed of.
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