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.
Wow somebody is angry. Are you ashamed of your non-educated non-english speaking ancestors who found a better life in America?
The vast majority of them came through Ellis Island and came legally. Many Mexicans also make the decision to come legally -----amnesty just rewards law-breakers.
As many of the illegals work for the Mexican drug cartels and are here as part of the vast drug distribution they manage here. Blanket amnesty means no background checks at all ---anyone can claim they were here for the required time, they dont' have to prove anything. I'm sure right now thousands are pouring over the border to claim their amnesty ----drug cartel included.
Yup all they had to do was get off the boat and be processesd(90% were accepted), after that they were free to go anywhere.
They also did the jobs no one wanted. They worked hard to make a better life for their family. They also faced scorn.
As far Europe, it's sort of a love/hate thing with them we have. Most of us with ancestors from that part of the world haven't forgotton the old countries. It's just they're always whining about us over there. Makes me wonder if they're a little envious sometimes.
We have a lot of that here-- I've seen where there's that many in the bedrooms but also that many sleeping in the living room. They only need to do that until they get their amnesty ---then they qualify for HUD housing and can get a lot more comfortable at taxpayer expense.
This isn't a blanket amnesty.
I'm not a Libertarian and I don't like pot----but where do you think most of the drugs are coming from, and who do you think brings them into this country? Very many illegals are directly involved with the drug trade. I guess the politically correct word now to use to refer to them is "pharmaceutical distributors from Mexico.
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