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.
They know what the answer IS. Those people in Washington read the polls and they know exactly what our thoughts are. All of the major polls show that approximately 80% of the population want less immigration and tighter borders.
They also get reports from their staffs about phone calls, FAX's, emails; etc. They are blindly going against the will of the American people on this one!!
"Today American's would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government."
One of my best friends is a Democrat, and he is dead set against amnesty as well. Like your family, he is loving the fact I am disillusioned with Bush.
Bush was the lesser of two evils back in 2000, but no way will I ever vote for him again. Like others, I'll write in some celebrity crackpot's name before I'll vote for him again.
Hey, what happened to Dane. I was really enjoying all of Dane's stories about the highly skilled illegal alien lettuce pickers and how they are so indispensable to the survival of the United States as the world's only superpower. If I remember correctly, didn't the Roman empire fall because of a lack of highly skilled illegal alien lettuce pickers?
Yes; I believe they called them "slaves". The Romans never could find enough of them.
Sorry, no date noted. But that quote was brought out at LEAST 10 years ago.
The "Right Major Crisis" seems to have happened.
State driver's licensing requirements have diddly to do with immigration. Don't embarass yourself by trying to pretend you have even a nodding acquaintance with the US Constitution.
For an avogado, you're awfully uninformed. Of course, you're what passes for a lawyer in Mexico, aren't you? You're not an American and never could be. Bugger off and go play with your fellow communists.
That would be correct. Without them, we're all doomed.
I just did and agree with every word of it. I'll have to take a look at their stance on other issues, however, but for now I would definitely vote for the Constitution Party before a "pro-illegal immigrant" Republican candidate.
No doubt about that. They're all acting like the terminator on this issue. They're programmed to react a certain way, and they don't stop till mission accomplished.
Tom Tancredo in 2004 anyone??
I propose a Pauline Hanson type candidate to wake up the Republicans. It worked in Australia. The Labour Party, last year, adopted Pauline Hanson's One Nation's stance on illegal immigration and won the election. If it were not for One Nation being a political threat to Labour, they would never have taken the strong stance against economic "boat immigrants" that they did beginning last summer.
Sounds good to me. Unlike Dubya, Tancredo seems to care about this country and how we feel as well. Down with Bush! Give Me Tancredo!
Yeah,I know. This is what I've been saying for a while now. What Bubba-2 is setting the stage for is a new super-state called the "North American Union",and for his half-Cuban nephew (George "The Latino" Bush) to be elected the first president of it.
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