Posted on 03/31/2006 12:24:55 AM PST by NapkinUser
Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) was online Thursday, March 30, to discuss his position on the immigration reform bills under consideration in Congress. Tancredo is chairman of the 92-member House Immigration Reform Caucus. He has advocated a major increase in border security spending, the hiring of more Border Patrol agents, and the building of a security barrier along the entire length of the border. Tancredo supported a bill passed by the House in December that would impose stiffer fines for employers who hire illegal aliens, add new mandatory minimum sentences for immigrant smugglers, and mandate automatic detention and deportation for immigrants caught crossing the border illegally. In addition the House bill would add mandatory sentences for illegal immigrants who re-renter the country after being deported. Tancredo opposes current Senate proposals that would implement a foreign guest worker program, broaden legal immigration, and provide amnesty to illegal aliens currently in the United States.
The transcript follows.
Congressman Tom Tancredo: Hi, this is Congressman Tom Tancredo. Thanks for joining me.
Rockville, Md.: Dear Congressman, I have been in this country for over 10 years - college education and work. Each step of the way, I have maintained my legal status. I am now in Year Three of (im)patiently waiting for my green card to be processed. It is discouraging to see that the proposed Senate bill rewards "illegals" but ignores the law-abiding immigrants (at least on their way to be through the correct channels). What are your thoughts on this?
Congressman Tom Tancredo: You've hit the nail on the head. This is one of the key problems with amnesty: it rewards people who have broken the law, and makes a mockery of our legal system and those immigrants, such as yourself, who came here legally. Worst of all, it encourages more illegal behavior.
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This guy should be the next president.
I'm beginning to think maybe you're right.
Reading this whole transcrip with Rep Tancredo is well worth the time. He addresses many issues. This is not one to blow off.
You don't by any chance own a Mexican flag do you?
"Tancredo will be lucky to win re-election in Colorado."
He has won four times before, and only in 2000 was it even close (the whole Columbine thing and Tancredo supporting gun rights.) He'll easily win with about 60% again this year.
Don't get me wrong, but it sounds like you would rather have socialist Bill Winter win. Some conservative!
Worth a ping.
"would he stop asking you for money?"
When has he done that? Dane is not the best source.
Ask the GOP hacks these three questions:
1) Will it be amnesty or nothing, including enforcement, this session?
2) Will their selling of the base (and all Americans) by leaving open a porous border, hurt the war on terror?
3) If the Party got everything it wanted in an immigration bill, would they stop asking for money?
A+
For "Thunder on the Border," click the picture:
( PS- my personal prediction? That picture will become one of the most widely distributed, and hated, pictures on the internet. The Illegal Invader lobby could not have done more damage to themselves with that "Mexican Flag Superior, America in Distress" shot if they had tried... )
Tancredo may not be a household name yet, but he's doing everything he can to change that. As the House and Senate debate the nation's immigration and border-security laws, the four-term Coloradan has positioned himself as the loudest, angriest voice against the estimated 11 million illegal aliens now living in the United States. They are "a scourge that threatens the very future of our nation," he says. He laments "the cult of multiculturalism," and worries about America's becoming a "Tower of Babel."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12017855/site/newsweek/
That sounds a bit demagogue-ish to me..
When I first heard it, it immeadiately hit me wrong..
Here's a guy that has gone beyond common sense legislation, and has decided to "ride the tiger" of strong public opinion, fanning the flames as he goes..
Of course, that's just my opinion, and I have been somewhat suspicious of Tancredo and his motives for several years now..
I realize that cheap labor greed as a cause will attract people of a very low moral and intellectual level but would you at least try to say something that could not have been produced by a machine ?
I'm beginning to think this issue is being used to distract us from something else ... what that "else" is I don't know. I'm cynical.
TANCREDO/MILLER/08
You think turning America into Oaxaca is a distraction from something worse ? You think creating a Mexican controlled Fifth Column in American electoral politics is a minor concern ?
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