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 those workers being Mexican is bad, how?
Amen to that my friend.
JLA, you would have a better conversation with a brick wall, IMHO, than trying to talk to these people.
Once again, Danevogado shows a complete inability to follow the gist of a conversation.
Don't you know that the world is coming to an end. I have never seen a bigger bunch of chicken littles.
Danevogado and his handlers think that we should sit quietly in our houses and places of work, pay our taxes, and let Big Brother handle it. Nothing to see here, nothing is going on, go back to sleep. Work. Consume. Obey.
And the "funny" part is that probably 75% of their ancestors probably received the same scorn that these people put out now.
Translation for the victims of Political Correctness, and for the historically impared: it was precisely because some of our ancestors were "racist" that they treated the later arrivals with "scorn", thus causing the later arrivals to assimilate and become real Americans, thereby avoiding Balkanization and racial strife, and thus ending "racism" and "scorn". Now, of course, we are not "racist" and we don't treat anyone with "scorn", and of course, the entire country has gone to hell, new arrivals are not assimilating but are actively hostile, and we get to pay for the whole boondoggle and are expected to shutup and not do anything about it. But that's policical correctness for you in Danevogado's Amerika.
And Dane, I told you before that we have to stop meeting like this. People are beginning to talk.
Also, what irony? FYI I am not an immigrant to Japan; I am here on business until I am posted back home.
Check your nose; cause your brain is filling up with snot it appears. I will, however, tell you a little bit about the immigration policies of Japan and what foreigners must do to live or work here temporarily.
March 15, 2015
Gov. Juan Perez signed a bill into law Friday declaring Spanish California's official language. With a open border and with all the amnesties since 2002, the Governor said English was no longer needed and was divisive.
With California's population over 100 million now, former President George W. Bush in an interview said he was very optimistic that Mexico is making progress on getting its 40% unemployment rate down. He reiterated that the Mexicans are hard workers and come here just to work.
Bush also said that his water drilling company in Alaska has more then enough water for thirsty Californians.
But you told me that there are plenty of "Americans" to pick the tomatoes and bus the tables.
Shouldn't AIT come back to the states and do one of those jobs. You should be calling him a traitor with the rhetoric you spew.
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