Tom Tancredo: Sam Brownback ‘Miserable’ on Illegal Immigration
Illegal immigration crusader Rep. Tom Tancredo is blasting 2008 presidential hopeful Sen. Sam Brownback for having what he charged was a “miserable record” on illegal immigration.
In quotes picked up by Knight Ridder on Tuesday, the chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus ripped the Kansas Republican as “an extreme opponent of getting tough on illegal immigration.”
Adding fuel to the fire, a Tancredo spokesman later blasted Brownback as someone who is “as left as they come on this issue.”
Tancredo is ire was raised by Brownback’s support for the Kennedy-McCain immigration reform bill, which would grant illegals defacto amnesty and allow them to earn citizenship in a few short years.
The illegal immigration issue roils the Republican base like no other. Just a few weeks ago, pundits said President Bush’s support for a guest worker program was behind the GOP’s open revolt over the Dubai ports fiasco.
Responding to Tancredo, Sen. Brownback denied charges that he was soft on illegal immigration.
“The Senate Judiciary Committee has been hard at work for over a month on comprehensive immigration reform,” Brownback explained in a prepared response. “No bill before the committee proposes blanket amnesty . . . Border security is our main priority.
The Kansas Republican insisted that he and his colleagues are “working to merge the best of several proposals, and hopefully we can all agree that we must protect our borders, enforce the law, provide legal means for people to work in the United States, and fix a broken system
Forget Brownback’s miserable record on immigration.
Check his record of supporting feminist laws.
The guy led the charge to get the VAWA passed, something that caused all divorced dads in the USA to stay home on election day in 2006.
Brownback doesn’t think that men vote.