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.
He decided to come to the United States because he believed that the United States would offer more opportunity for his daughters. Furthermore, I believe that he was dissatisfied with the second world atmosphere of Brazil. However, he wanted to be an American above all.
A friend of his, another Brazilian immigrant, I had the occassion to work with. When he arrived, legally, he was all starry eyed. He exclaimed that he "Loved America". I have never seen such a happy guy. He asked me all the time if I "Loved America". He said, "I love this country". He couldn't get enough. I thought, this is the type of immigrant that this country needs. However, he has since gone back to Brazil because of family illness.
From what I understand you are normally pretty easy to amuse.
Another concept that eludes this "lightweight thinker" [Dane] is that as long as farmers employ illegal labor at dirt cheap wages there is little economic incentive for industrial companies and inventors to develop automated machinery to replace NO TECH manual labor in agriculture.
I'm not buying it either. I used to think that most neo-con were just naive. While some are, elite neo-cons such of those at the WSJ and within the ranks of the GOP know exactly what they are doing.
So, send them back to reunite them with their families! If they cared that much fot their families they wouldn't have left them in the first place.
The United States will cease to exist, and it will become MEXICO!
I am a North American.
I think he may have a few thousand more lost right here on FR. Maybe we should email some of these threads to Bush and the congressional Republicans. I want to support Bush but this development is anathema to most Americans, especially when you condider that a great many non-Mexican mideasterners are gaining access that way as well. If Bush doesn't drop this I'm afraid it is going to cost him big time in the next election. The whole thing is simply counterproductive to the war effort, kinda like giving the enemy a nuke "to be nice" and then telling them not to use it on us.
For a man who never fails to wrap himself in the constitution, its certainly interesting to see you try and get your state legislation to blatently violate it. Immigration matters lie exclusively with the federal government. Its in the constition. Read it.
I can think of two places...
salon.com & stormfront.com
If we could be heard first hand by congress and/or the president, you bet!
Exactly!
He, like you, supports the breaking of American laws, and the trampling of the United States Constitution. You should feel right at home with him.
All I know is he brings with him a huge highlighter that he's run across your forehead and labled you an RNMOM hatefilled bigots, at least when it comes to our friends from Mexico.
Bottom line: We subsidize them every way possible. Come on down here to CA and see the bond measures coming up every election, - homeowners, get ready for more taxes!
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