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.
As you all know:
- Future amnesty bills will also be passed and signed, no matter
which party controls the White House and Congress.
- Illegal immigration will continue, at least for quite a while.
- The Hispanic population here is growing fast and will continue
to do so into the foreseeable future.
- More and more politicians will speak both English and Spanish,
as GW Bush does.
- Mass deportations will not happen and to keep people in an
illegal/criminal status -- who are here to stay -- is not a good
idea economically, socially, politically, or otherwise.
- We collectively allowed this situation to happen and we have to
live with the consequences until we can turn it into an asset.
It will take time.
Anyway, voting democrat is every bit as dumb as voting republican. I've been saying that for 20 years. ;-)
And the next election is just 8 months away. I can't wait to not show up.
Same here.
Now, being that you're disconnected from reality, you haven't seemed to understand the fact that poverty is also growing exponentionally in the same general areas that it is also booming. That is, the housing industry is exploding because new neighborhoods are needed for those displaced Americans who desire and Americanized neighborhood. While there's a short-term economic gain, it's really a near-sighted gain, for while the economy is growing a little, more Americans are being forced out of work, social service use is going up exponentionally in comparison to the growth in population, the quality of life is going down, and we're creating a situation that will only get many times worse for the future. This includes all those negative effects; economic, social, cultural, Constitutional, environmental, etc.
Yet, you're too disconnected to concentrate on the long-term.
In terms of the small towns, you're right, these places may not be growing the fastest economically, but they're also not adding that much poverty. Furthermore, these areas are much well-knit, not comprised of special interest groups attempting to war factions between everyone. Lastly, they don't have the negative effects that destroy the opportunity of them surviving into the future, at least culturally and socially. However, as the problems grow larger in those areas which have experienced the invasion, they will later, more than likely, be transported to the few remaining Americanized areas.
Again, you don't seem to get it.
Well Said Old Hickory.
I just watched the O'Reilly segment. O'Reilly was flabbergasted. He got Tancredo to admit that Bush is the guy who was behind this (it was taped before the vote).
They had some idiot who looked and talked like a cartoon socialist, Engel (like, Friedrich Engels?) of New York, in there saying how compaaaasionate Bush was being.
THAT'S WHOSE SIDE BUSH IS ON, AND THE SIDE THAT HE JUST SHOVED UP THE CONSERVATIVE'S COLLECTIVE BUTT.
There is no way Bush is going to be able to sugarcoat this. The one vote margin SHOWS that all they could do was pass it under enormous pressure, and try to contain the damage.
Bush just stepped in a big one. I was REALLY happy to see O'Reilly spend a good part of the segment on this and give Tancredo a chance to tell the truth to the millions of FACTOR viewers.
Out there in dim-land, little troubling bulbs are going off over a lot of people's heads.
I'll give you a chance to answer why you support Illegal Immigration. You have yet to even say the word Illegal Immigration or Alien. After all your posts, I would have thought that you would have tried to use those words at least once, but you haven't. What gives? Oh, you don't want to draw attention to the fact that you have no point, and you want to critize, defame, and twist the situation so that it fits your degenerated view of the world. That's it.
Mass deportations is popular amongst the public. It is not popular amongst the elite. Thus, that is why the elite only provides the pro-illegal side of the argument. The politicians see this and say, "Hey, let's vote for an amnesty, for tightening border control may garner scrutiny".
It's of the establishment, by the establishment, and for the establishment. What is it that Savage calls it, "The Government-Media Complex".
Thank God my critter voted against it. We'll see how he does the rest of his term (his first), but we don't have to throw him out yet... :)
As we say in the South, "That's something nobody's ever gonna know". The GOP absolutely refuses to allow another conservative to run for president under their banner ever again. Wobbly and Dole couldn't do it, neither could Tio Jorge though he did squeak by a winner. 'Course none of those boys are conservatives.
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