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.
EBUCK
I just left the RepublicRAT Party
The Republicans rolled over and played dead for the President.
I have no doubt that one of the votes will be Hall from TX--the Demo that Bush endorsed over a GOP. Granted, Hall appears to be more 'conservative' than some RINOS, at the end of the day when they vote to screw the Country, they are traitors......
Straight Democrat ticket for me through 2004.
I may be conservative, but I am not like the blacks in the Democrat party where you can deficate on them and still get my vote.
F the whole lot of them.
There needs to ba an action committee ..Those Pubbies have sold our Nation for a bowl of porrage....
NAMES...Districts......
TRAITORS!
GET THE RINO'S OUT!!!
This is a war for our country, and Aztlan just won a battle.
My family were Republicans before they called them that, and that includes the ones in the South, and they don't approve of any of this. He calls himself a Republican? He's the chief RINO. Glad we shoved Bill Simon up his butt, and retired his buddy Riordan.
This jerk is nothing more than a smirking schemer who thinks we're all his little lapdogs. So Bye-Bye, Whore-Hey. Hope your oil company buddies paid ya good. Gonna need a lotta Mexicanos stuffing your ballot boxes in Brownsville.
It still goes to the Senate. It'll probably pass there, but we can make it painful. KEEP CALLING.
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