Tancredo Slams Senate Immigration Plan
Congressman calls bill a slap in the face to Americans and legal immigrants who bothered to do things the right way
WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Representative Tom Tancredo (R-CO) today criticized the Senate immigration plan penned by Sens. McCain (AZ) and Kennedy (MA) and President Bush. This plan, like its predecessor proposals, would provide instant amnesty for millions of illegal aliens and a pathway to citizenship.
Senator McCain and his allies seem to think that they can dupe the American public into accepting a blanket amnesty if they just call it comprehensive or earned legalization or regularization. Unfortunately for them, however, the American people know amnesty when they see it, said Tancredo. The President is so desperate for a legacy and a domestic policy win that he is willing to sell out the American people and our national security.
If Senator McCain and Senator Kennedy spent as much time working on improving border security as they did poll testing creative euphemisms for amnesty, America would be a much safer place, quipped Tancredo.
The plan would grant an immediate amnesty for nearly all 12 20 million illegal aliens who will get legal status for residence and jobs (with assurance of green cards no later than 13 years); Tripling of the rate of chain migration of extended family from around 250,000 a year to around 750,000 a year for about a decade; and New flows of 400,000 temporary foreign workers each year, bringing their families and having anchor babies who will be given U.S. citizenship.
Tancredo concluded, This amnesty plan will be a slap in the face to hard working Americans and those who have come here to work legally. I just hope Speaker Pelosi keeps her promise to bar amnesty legislation from the House floor.
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