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Title: Bush Defines Amnesty as 'Automatic' Citizenship
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Human Events
URL Source: http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=13103
Published: Mar 10, 2006
Author: John Gizzi
Post Date: 2006-03-10 12:47:20 by Brian S
Keywords: Automatic, Citizenship, Defines
Views: 121
Comments: 14
President Bush has repeatedly said that he is not for providing “amnesty” to illegal aliens in the United States, but he has not always made clear exactly what he means by the word “amnesty.” White House spokesman Scott McClellan defined it this week, however, when I put the question to him at a White House press briefing. Webster’s Dictionary defines “amnesty” as “the act of an authority (as a government) by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals.” McClellan, however, said that the President believes “amnesty” would be anything that “put someone on an automatic path to citizenship.” In other words, legislation that grants pardon “to a large group of individuals” for entering and/or staying in the United States in violation of our immigration laws while converting all, or most, of them to legal guest workers without even making them first go home would not be an “amnesty” in the President’s view. This is in sharp contrast to the view of Rep. Tom Tancredo (R.-Colo.), chairman of the 90-member Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, who gave Human Events a definition of amnesty that seems consistent with the dictionary definition. “If you let people stay here, who are presently here after having broken the law getting here, if you let them stay for six years or any other amount of time, that is amnesty, because you are not applying the penalty to the violation of the law that is on the books,” said Tancredo. When McClellan was asked how an amnesty defined as the President defines it differs from the President’s own proposal that illegal aliens be converted into guest workers, McClellan explained that participants “in a temporary guest worker program get in line [for the process of achieving citizenship] like everyone else.” (He did not explain how being here already was not being ahead of others “in line” to become naturalized American citizens. ) McClellan went on to underscore that the President supported strengthening border security, that he supported greater funding for the Border Patrol, and that this would be paid for by an increase in the airport fees paid by travelers. “It [the airport fee increase] is in the President’s budget,” McClellan told us. When Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff appeared before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, Sen. Judd Gregg (R.-N.H.) complained to him about being placed “in an extremely difficult place” by being asked to fund “an expansion of the Border Patrol … but being told that the funds to do that are going to be illusory.” Gregg argued that the funds are illusory because the increase in Homeland Security funding is tied to an increase in the airport fee, which Gregg said Sen. Ted Stevens (R.-Alaska) would not allow to go through last year and is unlikely to allow this year. I also asked McClellan whether the reduction in funding that the President has requested next year for the AmeriCorps program—which uses federal funds to pay “volunteers” (and which the President has called for phasing out over five years)—could be used for funding the Border Patrol. “Well, we continue to act in a way to better secure our borders,” McClellan said. “We’ve greatly increased the number of Border Patrol agents. The President also believes we need to pursue comprehensive immigration reform and there’s a commitment in Congress to do so, and that’s where our focus is.”
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
They really,really want D.C. to be over-run with American citizens carrying pitchforks...don't they?
When do I get an amnesty for not paying my taxes as I don't want to support all these foreign wars and foreigners?
"I woke up in the CRAZY HOUSE."
Isnt that the truth??! You know how each decade has a different slogan?? Well this is the Orwell Decade!
All I want to know is: how many laws can "I" break and expect an amnesty? I really need to cover my rent this month - can I go rob the corner gas station because I really need the money? Maybe I can say I'm immigrating to their cash register.
"I woke up in the CRAZY HOUSE."
ROFLMAO!!!!!! hahahaha!! Good one!
You would think this idiot, with his numbers in the sh***er would not alienate his last base of support, the Freeper/Dittoheads.
Even the bots are becoming agitated as they see the wide open borders and their towns and neighborhoods being over-run with illegals.
Triangulation. Define Amnesty. The guest worker concept can cause huge trouble, witness Europe. It's over. Accept the inevitable. The window to do something has long passed. Now, in addition to providing a labor and wage base, a ready pool of recruits for the military, their contributions to Social Security will be harnessed, the Catholic Church, for instance and many cities, passing "hands off illegals" ordnances, along with large employers and even smaller ones, create too powerful a constituency for this phenomenon.
"I want the American people to know that our dreams are gone, our work was in vain. There will be no future for our children and our grandchildren in the new Iraq. The future is for the clerics. This is not the democracy we dreamed of. "--Dr. Raja Kuzai
Recently Canyon County, Idaho, started to file RICO Act charges against employers of Illegals and Georgia is considering taxing the money the illegals are wiring to Mexico, the groundswell is growing, Shrub may not care, but I think those in GOP do.
They have nothing to fear.. why should they?
Screw these bastards. They want to deny me my rights in every way thay can imagine with all this Patriot Act bullshit. And now they want to give "Automatic" citizenship to assholes who were not born here and came here illegally? We need more rope!
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. Harry S. Truman
The pResident is an ass. A fascist traitorous asshole at that. Either somebody impeach this bastard or we won't have a country left./
#2. To: Brian S (#0)
#3. To: mehitable (#2)
When do I get an amnesty for not paying my taxes as I don't want to support all these foreign wars and foreigners?
#4. To: Zipporah (#3)
#5. To: mehitable (#4)
Maybe I can say I'm immigrating to their cash register.
#6. To: Brian S (#0)
#7. To: The 7th MJS2U2 (#6)
You would think this idiot, with his numbers in the sh***er would not alienate his last base of support, the Freeper/Dittoheads.
#8. To: Brian S (#0)
#9. To: lodwick (#7)
#10. To: The 7th MJS2U2 (#6)
You would think this idiot, with his numbers in the sh***er would not alienate his last base of support, the Freeper/Dittoheads.
#11. To: Brian S (#0)
Bush Defines Amnesty as 'Automatic' Citizenship
#12. To: Brian S (#0)
#13. To: BTP Holdings (#11)
Damn right. I'll contribute the rope and horses..just find us some tall oaks.
We need more rope!
#14. To: Brian S (#0)
BTTT
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