There's a right way, and a wrong way to come to the US. Reagan only referred to immigrating legally.
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.
The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, Reagan said, would "regain control of our borders and thereby preserve the value of one of the most sacred possessions of our people, American citizenship."
And here's the source of the quote.
Please, in the future, don't compare Reagan to Bush. There isn't any. He understood the concept of borders and citizenship.
W is a boy in his 50s who will never grow up because he doesn't have to. He has never worked a day in his life and has never done anything to amount to a hill of beans outside political office. He's a daddy's boy and will never be a man. People who try to compare him to Reagan make me sick.
How unfortunate. GWB and my Republican Rep just tossed my votes into the trash can. I suppose they haven't discovered that it'll take two new votes to replace the one I'm going to cast against them next election.
Sometimes I wonder what it would have been like if A-gore had won. If he proposed this, the hypocrytical repubs would have been all over him for even thinking it. Still I don't want a demo president. Conservatives instead should try and get a grassroots movement going to challenge Bush in the primary. We must have our voices heard on this. Who knows, maybe even a true patriot who'll put country before commerce will emerge as the Reform Party candidate. Anything is better than what we're getting now.
Thanks Singer. You said it well.
But they wont call it a tax. It will be called somthing else.
Just like last night on this forum. I was told that this is not amnesty, but rather 245i. And it was so-called conservative Republicans that were attempting to minimize this. LOL!
The amnesty supporters have been working overtime inventing euphemisms to distract attention from the real nature of the amensty, like:
legalization," "normalization," "regularization," "earned adjustment," and even "phased-in access to earned regularization." LOL! This is very predictable.
There you go. One gets the impression some here would like to make conservatives feel guilty for not wanting to take in or accept every poor "migrant" who only wants to work hard and seek a better life. There are billions of them in the world. We have to have some controls. We already take in almost a million legally every year.
There's no excuse for politicians rewarding lawbreakers anymore. It was done as a once only deal in 1986 as compromise legislation in order to get better control of the borders. But Ronald Reagan did not believe in open borders, and in fact was against illegal immigration.
Honesty is great, try it.
Easy $100 for the FR fund, Mr. Robinson.
Did I hit abuse on #1765?
Carol-Hu?
Have a great first day.
He also said,
"Give me your tired your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
There's a right way, and a wrong way to come to the US. Reagan only referred to immigrating legally.
That quote doesn't mention legality.
How many were involved in Reagan's blanket amnesty?
And why was it ok for him but not the current President?
Funny picture, but it's been around much longer than you.
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