Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ DID warn us about deception several times in Matthew 24, didn't He?
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.
Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ DID warn us about deception several times in Matthew 24, didn't He?
And those workers being Mexican is bad, how?
Hey Dane--you're a waste of breath. You read what you want to see. He said illegal, though your pals on the hill are doing their best to lump all Mexicans--law abiding immigrants and felons, into the same category.
Lots of irony. If you had an honest bone in your body you wouldn't be berating people making a living in a land not of their birth while you are doing the same thing.
On the contrary, one of the pre-election things I heard from him is that he told LULAC and La Raza that "there won't be any amnesties, but we will push for some sort of guest worker program" and "Oh, I'll pertect the borders".
See my earlier post on how politicians "relabel" unpopular measures so as to fool the public. Yes, this is lying to reasonable people, but it isn't technically lying and allows him to get away with it. He's just as slick as Slick Willie, he just doesn't seem as sleazy, and therefore can get away with it. Bush will just call this some kind of variation of a guest worker program; there's no way he's going to label this an amnesty (even though it is, de facto, if not de jure). And since the media and the leadership of both parties agree with what Bush is doing, he will not get called on it to the same extent his father was on taxes. Also, we may be in an economic upswing by 2004, in which case he has that going for him too - unlike his father.
Sorry egg on your face, Freedomfriend, was complaining about the Mexicans working construction, and I asked him what was bad about it.
Please tell me what is bad about people putting up buildings, working in the searing heat and numbing cold?
Not really you just like the immigrants to the US are making a lving in a land not of their birth.
Like I said, the immigration "free for all" is *nationwide*.
I ask you Dane, are you evil, or just retarded?
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