Jun 15 2007
Congressional Shocker: Tancredo Measure to deny emergency funds to sanctuary cities passes!
I have a problem with the concept of sanctuary cities. I am cool with compassion and all that, but action openly to circumvent federal law does nothing to help immigration reform.
And I have a problem with Rep Tom Tancredo. He is far too xenophobic to suit me. We need cooler heads makign rational decisions.
But I have to admit this measure is attractive:
Shock: House passes Tancredo measure to deny emergency funds to sanctuary cities
He’s offered similar proposals at least seven times in the past three years and they’ve always failed by big margins. Today? 234-189, with no fewer than 49 Democrats voting in favor. The Rocky Mountain News says all sides are “stunned”; his own press release describes him as “exuberant.” Not necessarily because he thinks the Senate’s going to pass this but because of a certain Larger Truth that might just have materialized. From the RMN:
Tancredo said he thinks his amendment is an indicator that the House would crush the reform plan [i.e., amnesty bill] if it passes in the Senate.
“If I were (Speaker of the House) Nancy Pelosi, I’d be asking if she could pass a vote on amnesty on the House side,” Tancredo said. “If she lost 50 Democrats on this one, and she says she needs 70 Republicans to pass the immigration plan, this is an interesting indicator of things coming down the pike, and that the times, they are a-changing.”
I don't know about that. But I do think that even if this measure dies in the Senate, it does remind the cities playing the sanctuary game that there are larger legal issues in play, and that the liberal choke hold may not be absolute.
More at Day In, Day Out. The Bill: H.R. 2638
More on this to come, I am sure.
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Xenophobic? Tancredo? I believe you may have been listening too much to Mass Media Podpeople twisting and misrepresentation of Tancredo. This measure doesn’t surprise me at all, coming from him. My own dissatisfaction with Tancredo has more to do with his typical modern imperial federalism that would be utterly anathema to the Founders (well, apart from Hamilton *spit* and his ilk).
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