SENATE SNEAKS IN BILL TO ALLOW ILLEGALS TO STAY!!!!

FAIR Action Alert ^ | September 7, 2001 | RACEBANNON

[RaceBannon]

FAIR Action Alert

September 7, 2001

Section 245(i) Passed in Senate--House Will Vote Early Next Week

At the request of President Bush, the Senate passed S. 778, the Section 245(i) extension bill by unanimous consent on Thursday night. Section 245(i) permits illegal aliens who have established an employment or familial relationship while in the U.S. illegally to adjust their status with the INS after payment of a $1,000 fee. It also allows illegal aliens to avoid the State Department background checks for other immigrants coming from overseas.

As in previous years, the immigration lobby and now President Bush are trying to revive this loophole as a backdoor approach of amnesty. Many of those who have supported “temporary” extension of Section 245(i) are really after a permanent extension, thereby institutionalizing illegal immigration as an avenue for gaining permanent residence. This is manifest in the fact that S. 778 allows additional illegal aliens who were not earlier eligible for the provision to benefit as well.

House Republican leaders, under pressure from the Bush Administration, have agreed to go along with the measure the Senate passed. The House will take up the measure early next week, perhaps on Monday. Bush said this week that he would like to see Section 245(i) passed as a good will gesture to Mexican President Vicente Fox.

Under the compromise, the 245(i) program would be extended through April 2002, or four months after the Immigration and Naturalization Service establishes regulations for the program. The extension would apply to illegal aliens who meet the program's requirements by August 15 by proving they are related to a legal U.S. resident or have a job or the promise of a job in the United States.

What You Need to Do

Contact your Representatives (Capitol Switchboard 202-224-3121) and tell them you are opposed to an extension of Section 245(i).

Talking Points

Section 245(i) Encourages Illegal Immigration—It sends the message that it is OK to break the law as long as you can pay $1,000 to the INS.

Section 245(i) Upends U.S. Law—Congress in 1996 declared that those who overstay their visas or are otherwise illegal aliens should be barred from legal entry into the country for three or 10 years depending on the extent of the violation of U.S. immigration law. Section 245(i) allows illegal aliens to evade this penalty. Section 245(i) Harms Legal Immigrants—Those applicants patiently staying in their home countries awaiting an immigrant visa, as U.S. immigration law requires, will be forced to wait even longer.

You can visit our website at www.fairus.org and go to the Legislative Action Center to find your representatives and local media contact information. For more information, call FAIR’s legislative department at (202) 328-7004.

[1 FELLOW FREEPER]

And the illegal mexicans all voted for the Democrats because they are addicted to our various state and federal welefare programs.

[Native American Female Vet]

You got that right.

Bush thinks he can buy votes, just like he bought the Bushies with that little tax refund. He is trying to buy the wrong people, only the Dems can buy them.

[Native American Female Vet]

"Nobody was talking to you, so SHUT UP. Mind your manners and stop butting into other's conversations."

Since you dont seem to know how FR works I will tell you. This is an open forum. If you make a comment in a reply, it is fair game for all to reply to. If you dont like the articles DONT BUMP THEM TO THE TOP of latest posts by replying to them. If you dont like what the replys are dont bump them to the top.

I have noticed lately you and other Bushies all of the sudden are now saying dont speak unless spoken to, well TO BAD thats not how it works.

BTW You should get some of those manners you expect from others.

[doc]

Oh please! Is that what it is all about trying to win over the mexican vote. Despite Bush's wife having familial relationships with Mexico and Bush's lax policy towards illegals in Texas he still lost the Mexican vote 60/40. The real issue is that this country cannot absorb this massive wave of illegal immigrants. The cost both monetarily and socially to our society has been proven by many studies. If you want to have this countries standards lowered keep supporting this insane policy towards illegals.

[Dubya]

bumping up

[RaceBannon]

Oh, quit yer whining, you got your tax refund, didn't you? </ sarcasm>

[WhiteGuy]

My concern over this bill, which will be passed in the house, is not with the Mexicans.

I see this as an open door to those who hate America from everywhere in the world to simply enter Mexico or Canada with the intention of coming to the US.

Our government is welcoming our enemies into our home.

All this for the sake of the "illegal Mexican" vote.

I guess bush knows he's lost the conservative vote already and is hoping for whatever he can get.

[lavaroise]

Why should individual states and people put up with criminals. I do not think a state should be allowed to put up with that. It should not put up with companies using illegal labor nor put up with illegal aliens.

This is an extension of Clinton's pardons. I am at a loss here as to what is going on. The union itself is endangered.

[lavaroise]

I guess bush knows he's lost the conservative vote already and is hoping for whatever he can get.

In this atmosphere of terrorism and illegal aliens being terrorists, if I were Bush, I would not be afraid of the vote or business, I would fear for my own life. Didn't they get it? They had the capability to hurt the President and now the President is nurturing this capability. Unconsciounable.

[JoeGar]

OneIfByLand wrote: If this passes, I'm leaving the country. I'm not kidding this time. I really am. Really.

The question: Is OneIfByLand Alec Baldwin or Barbra Streisand?

[rebelsoldier]

And I see an arrogant and presumptive snot-nosed bed wetting liberal trying in vain to justify an illegal and criminal act based on PC idiocy, white guilt, and complete ignorance of the facts that the US wasn't built upon illegal immigration but a formal, fair, and orderly process that instilled both citizenship and respect for our laws and customs, not a mockery of them. The violation of federal immigration law is not only a crime and an example of the disrespect shown for it, but cheats the millions of law abiding and patient foreign nationals waiting years for the opportunity to become US citizens. Sane and competent individuals might wants to remember that fruit was picked and bathrooms were kept clean by citizens and legal immigrants long before millions of illegal immigrants poured into the US who now do many of these things with the additional difference being they, unlike their predecessors, receive Medicaid, welfare, public assistance, and SSI to mention a few. Otherwise, there would be no interest in immigrating to the US just to take its lowest paying jobs and still having to pay the higher costs of living associated with it. Therefore, their "cheap" labor is underwritten by every legal citizen and hard working taxpayer that obeys the law and follows the rules. In other words, the suckers and pastys of this corrupt system that is both ridiculously unfair and utterly degraded. I'm wondering if you'd be as willing to ignore and excuse illegal entry into your personal home (burglary)? How about illegal sex (rape)? Or illegal borrowing (robbery)? Finally, how about illegal deprivation of life (murder)? You obviously haven't thought out the situation.

[rebelsoldier]

I guess George Jr. wants to follow in his father's one term footsteps. If his candidacy is so weak he MUST get support from illegal aliens to prevail, then we have a far more serious problem than party politics and labels. We have a major social and Constitutional crisis that threatens the survival of our very country. What's the point of electing a President whose power is based on corruption and the violation of law? Haven't we already had that before for 8 long years? I didn't vote for the President of Mexico or the Prime Minister of Canada when I voted for Bush and don't want to live in some multinational political conglomerate New World Order society that ranks me as just another peasant in that new order. If the Bush Administration continues its leftward course, Bush is finished, as conservative voters WILL stay home come next election. Since when did enforcing the damned law become an obstacle to sound political leadership?

[katze]

#147 If you're looking for a Bush-basher, you're gonna have to look further--it ain't me.

[1 FELLOW FREEPER]

He just opened Pandora's box....and Pandora doesn't like him.

[expose]

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