If Bush was on the right side of illegal immigration, he wouldn't need a warning.
Not that I think the warning will set his thinking straight.
Posted on 03/13/2002 10:51:40 AM PST by VinnyTex
Boiling Pot
The immigration issue heats up.
By Ramesh Ponnuru
March 13, 2002 8:40 a.m.
Last night, the House voted 275-137 to let illegal immigrants become legalized upon payment of a $1,000 fine and identification of a sponsor. The vote was a victory of sorts for President Bush, who can tell Mexican president Vicente Fox that he's making progress toward legalizing illegals at their meeting next week. But it was only barely a victory.
Bush needed two-thirds of the votes because of the procedure under which the bill was brought up ? a procedure normally used for uncontroversial measures. He got that majority, but only by one vote. And he had to rely on Democrats to do it. House Republicans voted against him, and their leadership, by a 123-92 margin. Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe, referring to the leader of the anti-amnesty Republicans in the House, snarled that the GOP was a "Tom Tancredo Republican party," not a Bush party. There's considerable justice to his claim.
There were only 43 votes against the legalization proposal last year. This time around, it was attached to a popular measure to tighten security measures concerning people here on visas. But opposition jumped by 94 votes nonetheless. House Judiciary chairman Jim Sensenbrenner expressed his displeasure to some of the switchers. At least one of them told him that September 11 had changed his mind about the seriousness of border security.
The proposal now goes to the Senate, where Democrat Robert Byrd promises to hold it up.
The vote has to be taken as a warning to President Bush that any further movement on illegal immigrants is going to be difficult to achieve. That's the message House leaders will be giving him. Even one of Bush's major allies in the House, Roy Blunt, voted against him.
House Republicans who are considering seeking higher office this year were particularly likely to vote against Bush. Senate candidate John Thune of South Dakota voted against the proposal. So did Ed Bryant, who's running for Senate in Tennessee (and Democrats Bob Clement and Bart Gordon, who are said to be considering the race). Other Republican Senate candidates who voted against Bush were Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, John Cooksey of Louisiana, and Greg Ganske of Iowa.
Voting with the president was Rep. John Sununu of New Hampshire, who is also running for Senate.
Could they not find a sponsor, apply, pay the fine, and get a Green Card? If not, why not?
If Bush was on the right side of illegal immigration, he wouldn't need a warning.
Not that I think the warning will set his thinking straight.
Could they not find a sponsor, apply, pay the fine, and get a Green Card? If not, why not?
This is a free-for-all. Nationality has nothing to do with it. Washington keeps saying Mexican, because those are the votes they are buying. Washington does not give a hoot if any of these other countries benefit from this, they are doing this for Fox.
Also, I'd bet that more than 200,000 apply and are eligible. My guess is around 300,00 to 350,000. Just my opinion.
The evil elite New World Order multinational corporate traitors own the entire news media, own the entire "entertainment" industry and control both major political parties.
The evil elite New World Order multinational corporate traitors know that tens of millions of ordinary Americans are indeed alarmed over the impending takeover of this great nation by the emerging Third World majority.
The evil elite New World Order Multinational Corporate Traitors know that most Americans are against permitting our borders to be so flagrantly trampled upon by millions of Third World immigrants, both legal and illegal.
Yet the voices of America's silent majority are never heard.
The evil elite New World Order multinational corporate traitors who run the news media and the political establishment never allows "politically incorrect" opinions to be expressed.
It's time for the silent millions of Americans to rise up and demand an end to all immigration, both legal and illegal and to demand an end to the evil elite New World order multinational corporate stranglehold over us.
Everyone.
This isn't just the "Mexican Illegal Alien" Amnesty. There is no nationality specified.
It should have been called the "Terrorist Amnesty" as well, because undoubtedly they will get through too.
From what I've read, it's a racist amnesty that only applies to one particular ethnic group but not Europeans, Africans, Asians or others. People would react entirely different if the Prime Minister of Canada or England suddenly began demanding the things Fox demands.
And I'm the bigger idiot for voting for the idiot in 2000.
You're not kidding.
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