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.
Do you know the really BIG difference? We all knew Clinton was a crook....so we all watched him..he could not move without someone knowing
Bush slides through the cracks with his cute smile and christian sounding words....BEWARE!
Then you might as well sit President Ronald Reagan right beside him. Because Ronald Reagan would have no problem with granting these people "amnesty" for seeking liberty and economic freedom.
Ya know, Ronald Reagan often spoke of the inscription on the Statue of Liberty:
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
President Reagan told of the great anticipation he had to show this to Mr. Gorbachev when he visited this country. Because Ronald Reagan truly believed these words.
He also said this in 1980:
" Can we doubt that only a Divine Providence placed this land, this island of freedom, here as a refuge for all those people in the world who yearn to breathe free-- Jews and Christians enduring persecution behind the Iron Curtain, the boat people of Southeast Asia, of Cuba and of Haiti, the victims of drought and famine in Africa, the Freedom Fighters in Afghanistan."
Is it any wonder why the G.O.P. can't attain a sustaining majority in one house of congress, let alone both of them.
Thank God for the likes of DeLay, Paul, and the others who stood up for freedom and the shining beacon our Founding Fathers envisioned!
I can't comment on that because I don't have cable anymore. But nobody has said much about this. I tried to generate some interest on our local News Talk Radio stations and couldn't do it. It is almost like the White House put a gag order out on the subject. It is the damnest thing I have ever seen.
The silence is deafening.
He wasn't referring to erecting a wall, real or metaphorically, to keep those away who seek the American dream.
Don't you know that the world is coming to an end. I have never seen a bigger bunch of chicken littles.
And the "funny" part is that probably 75% of their ancestors probably received the same scorn that these people put out now.
116 have declared their outrage at the open borders, open roads, open schools, open hospitals fairytale that a stubborn Bush appears to desire to impose on his people. Below are 116of the fighting right (mail Vallandigham below to add your name):
LOL! Will the irony never cease. An American In Tokyo complaining about immigrants. You gaijun are funny.
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