Administration Wants to Extend Immigration AmnestyPosted on 03/19/2002 9:07:11 PM PST by Uncle Bill
Administration Wants to Extend Immigration Amnesty
Human Events
By Joseph A. D'Agostino
May 14, 2001
AMNESTY by BUSH - The Truth about Section 245(i)
President Bush is asking Congress to revive an expired law that would grant amnesty to foreigners who came to United States on temporary visas—such as tourist, work or student visas—and then stayed here to become illegal immigrants.
The extension the President is asking for would offer a fourth chance to aliens who first overstayed their visas, then failed to take advantage of an initial amnesty, then failed to take advantage of a four-month extension of that amnesty that ended on April 30.
The provision, the 245(i) program, was set to expire last year when President Clinton successfully lobbied Congress to extend it into this year.
The program requires immigrants to pay a $1,000 fine before their status can be adjusted.
In a May 1 letter to the congressional leadership, Bush said that there were 200,000 people eligible to take advantage of 245(i) who failed to do so by the extended deadline. "It remains in our national interest to legitimize those resident immigrants eligible for legal status, and to welcome them as full participants in our society," he wrote.
"According to agency estimates, there are more than 500,000 undocumented immigrants in the country who are eligible to become legal permanent residents, primarily because of their family relationship with a citizen or legal permanent resident," wrote Bush. "However, the law generally requires them to go back to their home country to obtain a visa, and once they do so, they are barred from returning to the United States for up to 10 years.
"Many choose to risk remaining here illegally rather than to be separated from their families for those many years," said Bush. "I encourage the Congress to consider whether there was adequate time for persons eligible under section 245(i) to apply for adjustment of status before the filing deadline expired yesterday. Information indicates an estimated 200,000 were eligible to file but did not meet the deadline." Bush did not specify how long the new extension should last.
Rep. Lamar Smith (R.-Tex.) led the fight against Clinton’s efforts to extend 245(i) last year. But, in the end, Smith agreed to a four-month extension. Now, Smith says he believes the INS did not handle the four-month extension properly and that there should be another extension. "Because the INS failed to publish regulations in a timely manner, fairness requires that eligible applicants receive their entitled four months, but extending the deadline any further only serves as an open invitation to illegal immigration," said Smith in a statement.
‘Rewarding Illegal Behavior’
"Additional time beyond what was already established only rewards aliens who have broken our immigration laws and is unfair to those aliens who do respect our immigration laws by waiting in their home countries," said the statement.
Dan Stein, executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform said, "Besides rewarding illegal behavior, Section 245(i) would allow illegal aliens to circumvent the re-entry bar established by Congress in 1996 that ties an alien’s ability to legally reside in the U.S. to their willingness to obey the law. With six million illegal aliens currently in the U.S., Congress should not cut any deals which could further undermine immigration law enforcement."
Bush’s decision to seek a further extension of 245(i) came four days after he extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to illegal immigrants from Honduras and Nicaragua. Bush said that "both countries remain unable to handle adequately the return of its nationals" because of a December 1998 hurricane.
© Human Events, 2001
GEORGE W. BUSH and FRIENDS in "AMNESTY"
and "OPEN BORDERS" PURSUIT
AMNESTY by BUSH - The Truth about Section 245(i)
Communist Party USA - Proposed Resolution against Racism and for Immigrant Rights
A] Open unlimited immigration into the USA
B] Compulsory bi-lingual education for all adults and their families of whatever country or cultural background. Federal prohibition of " English Only "
C] Extension of all existing labor and workplace protection laws, and the right to redress under them for all immigrant workers, documented or not.
D] Support for the AFL-CIO policy on amnesty, and a call for a major AFL-CIO drive in all minority communities, and that consciously strategies to avoid any attempts to "whipsaw" one community against another.
AMNESTY by BUSH - The Truth about Section 245(i)
In Mexico, Daschle, Gephardt give strongest support yet to more open borders, immigration reform
Mexico's President Fox Calls For Open Borders
Clinton's new policy: 'open borders"
"Indeed, during the immigration debate of 1984 we suggested an ultimate goal to guide passing policies--a constitutional amendment: "There shall be open borders." - July 2, 2001 - ROBERT L. BARTLEY - Editor of The Wall Street Journal
"Another amnesty for undocumented aliens is already in the air"
Darkness By Design For Amnesty Move
"At the precise directions of Mr. Bush — the House sneaked through a bill directly related to the student visa fiasco."
But deliberately cloaked in the bill — the first attempted passage was, in fact, to be by unrecorded vote — was the highly controversial Section 245(i) amendment to the immigration law, which allows "undocumented" immigrants (who, to employ plainer talk, are really illegal aliens) to immediately get permanent residency. All they need to do is pay the federal government $1,000 and have a close relative or employer sponsor them.
This decision gives people who come here illegally the ability to skirt American law, to move to the front of the line because they have skirted that law, and to avoid any real check on their past. Without it, they would have to return to their own countries, apply legally, probably wait up to 10 years and go through at least the minimal check of experienced visa and consular officers in the American Embassies.
The fact that this entire scenario was cloaked in the secrecy and deception of a spy novel — it was included in the day's "suspension calendar," which is generally reserved for noncontroversial matters — demonstrates the degree to which the administration is trying to advance its idea of amnesty for hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens in America, perhaps up to 9 million."
"President of the United States Wants To Grant Amnesty Up To 4 Million Illegal Aliens"
George W. Bush: No Amnesty for Immigrants - "There's going to be no amnesty" - He was just kiddin'
George W. Bush Ignores American People - Polls
Democrats hail Bush's immigrant-amnesty plan
"If they're illegal, they ought to go home." - George W. Bush
Is George W. Bush really our first Hispanic president?
'Arab terrorists' crossing border: Middle Eastern illegals find easy entrance into U.S. from Mexico
INS Releases 35,318 Criminal Aliens
""U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) estimate that 11,605 – or roughly one-third of those released by the INS – went on to commit serious crimes including 1,845 violent crimes."
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Fax his office: 304-343-7144
Call his Washington office: 202-224-3954
I did and I know my friend did. She explained that she was a Republican and she totally supports him on this issue. I emailed him and thanked him and told him I supported him on this issue etc.
In a written statement to Human Events, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has conceded it cannot vouch for the accuracy of its claim that there are 314,000 immigration "absconders" in the United States. Absconders is the agency’s term for illegal aliens who have been ordered deported by immigration judges but who remain in the country anyway.
Statistics published by the Justice Department’s Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR), which is independent of the INS, suggest that the number is far higher than the INS has claimed. Indeed, they indicate it is likely there were about 425,000 new absconders just in the five-year period from fiscal 1996 to fiscal 2000. And that number would exclude all absconders in the years before 1996, and all absconders since Oct. 1, 2000.
House Immigration Subcommittee Chairman George Gekas (R.-Pa.) told Human Events he now believes the number of absconders could run as high as one million.
Executive Order 13083 and Our Freedom - Both Parties Were Going To Finish Us Off
"Among the number of applications..., cannot we find an American capable and worthy of the trust? ...Why should we take the bread out of the mouths of our own children and give it to strangers?"
John Adams - (Letter to Sec. State John Marshall, Aug. 14, 1800)
"The opinion advanced [by Jefferson,] is undoubtedly correct, that foreigners will generally be apt to bring with them attachments to the persons they have left behind; to the country of their nativity, and to its particular customs and manners. They will also entertain opinions on government congenial with those under which they have lived; or, if they should be led hither from a preference to ours, how extremely unlikely is it that they will bring with them that temperate love of liberty, [italics in original] so essential to real republicanism? There may, as to particular individuals, and at particular times, be occasional exceptions to these remarks, yet such is the general rule. The influx of foreigners must, therefore, tend to produce a heterogeneous compound; to complicate and confound public opinion; to introduce foreign propensities. In the composition of society, the harmony of the ingredients is all-important, and whatever tends to a discordant intermixture must have an injurious tendency."
Alexander Hamilton - ("Examinations of Jefferson's Message to Congress of December 7th, 1801," Jan. 12, 1802)
"Yet from such [absolute monarchies], we are to expect the greatest number of emigrants. They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. Their principles with their language, they will transmit to their children. In proportion to their numbers, they will share with us in the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass."
Thomas Jefferson - ("Notes on Virginia," 1782)
""My opinion, with respect to emigration, is that except of useful mechanics and some particular descriptions of men or professions, there is no need of encouragement, while the policy or advantage of its taking place in a body...may be much questioned; for, by so doing, they retain the Language, habits, and principles (good or bad) which they bring with them."
George Washington - (Letter to John Adams, Nov. 15, 1794)
I thought this wasn't "Amnesty." LOL!
Do the right thing, show Bush the door in 2004.
Serious question. Who do you want to replace him?
The politicians aren't the problem. They're just a bunch of empty suit whores with money and political elite pimp connections. The American people are the problem. To even come close to fixing that problem would take a winning bloody revolution, and 3 to 4 decades of serious repair. The socialist/communist elite control nearly all pillars now. By the way, our side is so dumb they continue to call the enemy liberals. What's that? It means nothing. What, liberal like Stalin? Our side is full of wimps, who are afraid to call them what they are. Socialist and Marxist scum. The rule of law, and the overall system in general has collapsed. The politicans also know the Constitution was destroyed some time ago. It was planned and deliberate. It's all just pretend now. These political idiots slobber on themselves talking about a Democracy, they shall have it. The Republic is falling.
"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."
James Madison
"The modern American university is the most totalitarian and elitist institution in the world. Students who show up on campus loving their country face a monolithic, repressive environment. Professors are undemocratically chosen by other, like-minded professors and tenure is distributed based solely on the willingness of the scholar to adopt the anti-American theology of the ruling elites. This authoritarian structure continues once the student enters the classroom, where America-hating professors can arbitrarily impose their anti-American morality on powerless students through grading.
The oppression continues when one looks at the curriculum where strenuous efforts by the anti-American leftists who brutally control college campuses have successfully marginalized and often eliminated course offerings which evince a sensitivity and acceptance of those who love their country." - Source
Amen!
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