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Legislation sponsored by Tancredo...

http://www.house.gov/tancredo/newsroom/press/2003/2003_05_22conf.htm

H.R.946 : To effect a moratorium on immigration.
H.R.2688 : To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to repeal authorities relating to H1-B visas for temporary workers.
. H.AMDT.188 to H.R.2555 An amendment that none of the funds made available in this Act may be used to provide assistance to any State or local government entity or official that restricts any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the Department of Homeland Security information regarding an individual's citizenship or immigration status, as prohibited under section 642(a) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 19.

H.AMDT.190 to H.R.2555 Amendment sought to prohibit any funding to States or localities that restrict information to the Bureau of Immigration and Customs regarding an individual's citizenship or immigration status as prohibited under section 642(a) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.

H.AMDT.293 to H.R.2799 An amendment to prohibit the use of funds from being available to assist any State or local government entity or official that prohibits or restricts any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the Department of Homeland Security information regarding the citizenship or immigration status of an individual.

And these are the ones he's sponsored. I didn't include the ones he has cosponsored or voted on. Add those in and the record gets better still. Now I don't know how much effort is placed into drafting a resolution and getting it through committee. Is is better to create a few and then hype them, or to send resolution after resolution to committee. I dunno. However, it is clear that Tancredo is the point man for immigration reform and one of it's loudest champions. To say the man has done nothing is willful blindness.

He's got NO cosponsors. These bills are garbage. They are DOA. The guy is a self promoting charlatan.

You guys are rolling logs here. Immigration IS a vitally critical challenge to our safety and economic security.

The only priority should be crafting a political strategy to get the ruling class off their asses and about their duty to protect our interests.

20,000 border guards? How do we locate, identify, process and determine disposition of the 8 million folks traipsing around without sanction today?

Tancredo isn't offering solutions, he's demogauging the challenge and cynically tasking the President to magically fix it. That's not in the President's authority. It's immigration law, it's court rulings on residency, it's state level entitlements and provision of legitimizing status such as drivers licenses and county ID cards. It's a county by county, state by state, court by court and person by person and federal immigration and naturalization law, regulatory rules and policy implementation.

Do YOU know what your county's policy is on approving newly arrived, non-resident aliens for social services and entitlements? By what authority or guidelines do they grant qualified enrollment? What are the served populations, what are the costs to taxpayers, what public debate was provided when developing policies etc. If you don't know the specifics of illegal immigrant entitlements and vetting in your county, you're not serious about this issue.

Those aren't bills, they're floor amendments to FINAL APPROPRIATION bills. They're empty showboating. There's no work or serious intent there, nobody is going to pass a new program or interpretation of immigration law that has not been funded, marked or had a hearing on a Final Reading of an Appropriation bill! He's a joke. If he was a serious professional, he'd have lobbied Debbie Pryce or Ralph Regula or another "Cardinal" prior to the markup, where his initiative could be examined for relevancy, funding rationale and acceptability to 218 members. That's how you do it, only jacknobs from the Minority Caucus throw these Amendments at the final reading, they don't have access to the Ranking majority members to market their change. Tancredo's a showboating bozo.