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.
If anybody around here has a "drug-addled" mind it is you and others like you who are still trying to pretend Bubba-2 isn't a bigger statist than Bubba-1 was. You've gone past pathetic and are now just pitiful.
Are you aware there are over 2,000,000 criminals locked behind bars in America? It is true that over half of them are about narcotics charges. But get a load of this! About 12% (~200,000) are about illegals performing criminal acts!
Nice hard workers, aren't they?
Just playing your game sars, answering a question with a question.
Well it seems you sure don't show any hospitality to the people who pick the lettuce you buy at the supermarket.
Are those people the anti-christ in your eyes?
Err, you forgot homophobe.
Damn!
I also forgot 'nativist' and 'xenophobe' and probably a few others.
Please, don't talk while you are "pleasuring" Clinton, you only embarass yourself more.
Dane is a hero here and a very bright and articulate poster. You can take lessons in class from him.
Okay, you've given the game away. You and Dane are the same person. Admit it.
If I added the tax subsidies to those illegal lettuce pickers it wouldn't look so cheap. No. If lettuce picking cost too much I'd be able to market a robot and Americans would get the high tech jobs designing, producing, and maintaing them.
What do Americans get out of the Bush amnesty?(Sarcasm's reply #665)What do Americans get out of Xenophobes?
A country they can call their own?
You are probably not aware that this country was founded by xenophobes, maintained by xenophobes, and made great by xenophobes: people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, for starters. Jefferson for instance had some very decided opinions about what kinds of immigrants were desireable and what kinds were not desireable. That makes him a xenophobe in your book.
This country didn't start to go down the crapper until we left the path pioneered by these "xenophobes".
Then don't buy lettuce. I bet you will be sick in your stomach to know that 99% of the lettuce you buy was picked by those dirty horned Mexicans.
Wow on FR, there is whole market of 85 people(according to Vallandigham) who would buy lettuce at $10 a head if it were picked by good old true blue American hands.
Why is it necessary to bring religion into the argument?
The fact that we want these criminals removed from the country, has nothing to do with religion.
Should we start giving amnesty to child molesters, murders, shoplifters, speeding, traffic tickets. Where do we draw the line?
The fact is, these people broke the law and we are rewarding them for doing so, while the law abiding immigrants sit in Mexico waiting patiently for their visa's.
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