Contact Tom Tancredo (R-Co), Chirman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus

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[Remember_Salamis]

Contact Tom Tancredo (R-Co), Chirman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus (HIRC). He's one of the few elected republicans with his head on straight. Here's their platform:

Rep. Tom Tancredo’s Four-Point Plan for Immigration Control

The United States has lost control over its immigration policy. Over one million persons enter our nation illegally each year and we have antiquated and error-prone systems for knowing who our legal visitors are and for enforcing their visa time limits. Every poll shows that over 75% of citizens support border security and strict enforcement of our immigration laws. They want our immigration policies fixed. Here is my four-point plan for achieving control of our borders and enforcing sensible immigration policies.

1. Secure our Nation’s Borders

Increase Border Patrol manpower from the present 11,500 to 20,000 (HR 3534). Use the U.S. Military until the Border Patrol reaches that manpower level (HR 277). Accelerate the use of new technology and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to identify and help apprehend smugglers and trespassers. Double the capacity of the detention centers for apprehended trespassers. End the “catch and release” policy by instituting fines and jail time for repeat offenders. Require stiff prison sentences for convicted “coyotes” and felons who return to the U.S. after deportation. Accelerate the implementation of the “USVISIT” biometric identifier program for all foreign nationals entering the country through our ports of entry. 2. Establish a Genuine Guest Worker Program

Enact a genuine Guest Worker Bill (HR 3534) to allow any foreign national to enter the US legally to work for up to one year in a job that cannot be filled by a citizen. Require employers to advertise all jobs on an internet bulletin board and for two weeks before hiring a Guest Worker. Require illegal aliens already in the U.S. to first return home and apply for jobs through the legal processes. 3. Improve “Interior Enforcement” of Immigration Laws

Provide adequate resources to the “Detention and Removal” branch of the Bureau of Customs and Immigration Enforcement (BICE) to allow apprehension and removal of all criminal aliens. Enact the “CLEAR” Act (HR 2671) to give local law enforcement incentives and reimbursements for participating in immigration law enforcement. Establish stiff fines and tax penalties for employers who violate the law by hiring illegal aliens, and devote adequate resources to identify and prosecute those employers. 4. Remove Incentives for Illegal Immigration

Employers who hire illegal aliens should face stiff fines and tax penalties (see#2 above). Federal and State agencies should be prohibited from recognizing the Mexican Government’s “Matricula Consular” ID card. States that grant driver’s licenses to illegal aliens should suffer loss of federal highway funds. Children born to illegal aliens should not be given citizenship status (HR 1567). Federal court rulings and other policies that require health and educational services to illegal aliens should be overturned. Amend Social Security Act to deny credits for wages earned in illegal employment or to self-employed engaged in illegal activities (HR 1631). Insist that the Government of Mexico extradite felony criminals who retreat into Mexico. Encourage the Government of Mexico to repeal its Dual Citizenship law.

Here's the other members of the caucus. What's funny is that there' only two democrats in the caucus and one of them's becoming a republican (Hall from Tx): Todd Akin (R-MO) Robert Aderholt (R-AL) Spencer Bachus (R-AL) J. Gresham Barrett (R-SC) Richard Baker (R-LA) Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) Joe Barton (R-TX) Michael Bilirakis (R-FL) John Boozman (R-AR) Allen Boyd (D-FL) Henry Brown (R-SC) Ginny Brown-Waite (R-FL) Michael Burgess (R-TX) Dan Burton (R-IN) Eric Cantor (R-VA) John Carter (R-TX) Mac Collins (R-GA) Barbara Cubin (R-WY) John Culberson (R-TX) JoAnn Davis (R-VA) Nathan Deal (R-GA) John Doolittle (R-CA) Jim Duncan (R-TN) J. Randy Forbes (R-VA) Phil Gingrey (R-GA) Virgil Goode (R-VA) Sam Graves (R-MO) Jim Greenwood (R-PA) Gil Gutknecht (R-MN) Ralph Hall (D-TX) Joel Hefley (R-CO) Wally Herger (R-CA) Henry Hyde (R-IL) Robin Hayes (R-NC) J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ) Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) Duncan Hunter (R-CA) Johnny Isakson (R-GA) Ernest Istook (R-OK) Chris John (D-LA) Sam Johnson (R-TX) Walter Jones (R-NC) Steve King (R-IA) Donald Manzullo (R-IL) Gary Miller (R-CA) Jeff Miller (R-FL) Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO) Charlie Norwood (R-GA) Butch Otter (R-ID) Mike Pence (R-IN) Chip Pickering (R-MS) Jim Ramstad (R-MN) Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) Ed Royce (R-CA) Edward Schrock (R-VA) Pete Sessions (R-TX) John Shadegg (R-AZ) Michael Simpson (R-ID) Lamar Smith (R-TX) Nick Smith (R-MI) Cliff Stearns (R-FL) John Sullivan (R-OK) Tom Tancredo (R-CO) Patrick Tiberi (R-OH) Fred Upton (R-MI) David Vitter (R-LA) Zach Wamp (R-TN) Dave Weldon (R-FL) Roger Wicker (R-MS)

[janetgreen]

Contacted Tom Tancredo with a letter detailing the reasons why America is begging for enforcement of existing immigration and border laws. Bush refuses to enforce these laws for the sake of his own political gain. I told Mr. Tancredo that I would support his run for the Presidency if he would consider it.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

Perhaps you'd like to read up on the issue. He makes a provision to allow illegals to be "on the road to legal status." Read: Keep your head down and I'll make you a citizen. Like 245i...this is nothing but a back door amnesty. He doesn't even have the guts to be honest about it..has to hide it in the fine print!

[lainde]

bttt

[ReyDM]

We don't need time to prove this policy will fail ... just look at what happened after the last amnesty back in '87.

Bush just lost my vote. I will vote libertarian. Will be writing letters to all my congress folks pleading them to stop this insanity.

[Dane]

Bush just lost my vote. I will vote libertarian. Will be writing letters to all my congress folks pleading them to stop this insanity

LOL! Another Du'er outed. You do know that the Libertarians want no border at all. They will even let the islamofascists in.

Better tell the powers over at DU to change their playbook.

[grania]

I would like to suggest that there be ways for jobs that non-citizens are now doing be put up for grabs. For instance, if it was learned that a non-citizen was doing a laundry job in SE MA, it should be in a special classified section of the newspaper. If a citizen claims it, the non-citizen should be sent home and the job should be providing wages for us.

If someone is hiring illegals, they should be fined and go to jail. If they don't immediately admit it and sign up for the process to replace those people, they should lose their jobs, get even more jail time and stiffer fines, even be open for lawsuits filed for citizens who would do the job.

We know the percentages opposed to foreigners doing work US citizens would do. We know the percentages opposed to the invasion. Face it, folks, except for a few heroes such as Representative Tancredo, everyone else is supporting the status quo...cheap labor, cheap votes, the destruction of the middle class in America.

I'm disgusted. President Bush knows how conservative Americans feel about this issue. He's circumventing the political process and supporting a form of globalism that is not helpful to the aspirations of average US citizens who want to maintain what they have worked so hard for.

[kittymyrib]

George Bush is treating conservatives like the Democrats treat the Blacks. Karl Rove has decided conservatives will vote for Bush no matter what they do. We'll see in Nov. if he was right. However, I personally will not be voting for a president who can stand up to Saddam Hussein but not to Vicente Fox.

[Just mythoughts]

This is going to be one hot political potato.

What cannot get lost in the picture is that President Bush has already been given the "Hitler" label. The lying liberals don't give a rats behind about what happens to "humanity".

The lying liberals will react in whatever manner they see that will help themselves regain their power and seems to me that we conservatives should not play into their hand.

[Lib-Lickers 2]

this move by Bush won't change much ,, Relax,, those people have been here a long time and they will continue to be here,, at least we will know where they are,, I like fruit and produce that I can afford,, bet the fruit and produce you and your family have been consuming for years has been picked mostly by illegals so you were and are perpepuating the problem,, kind of like complaining about drug crimes while toking on that hogleg,,,,,,,,,,

[Mamzelle]

Now that my temper's cooled somewhat---

You know, there's something very interesting here ideologically:

a whole new kind of class warfare between one kind of Republican and another.

Those with maids and yard help, and those without. Haves and have-nots.

You don't notice Rush calling for enforcement of our immigration laws--and why not? Do you suppose Marta scrubs the twenty toilets in the twenty bathrooms in that $24M mansion in Palm Beach? Does Rush spread his own mulch?

Yesterday on Hannity I heard George Will speak approvingly of mass immigration...well...I'll bet his young trophy wife doesn't clean her own house, and poor George better never expect such a thing.

But middle-class Americans don't buy so much house that they can't maintain it without illegal labor--but the elites of our party have to have servants.

Around where I live there are two kinds of new communitites--stunningly ugly, huge, shapeless mansions. And the slums of the help these rich folks require to maintain their Alcatraz on the Lake.

And what about the hospitals stressed by uncompensated illegal emergency care?

Well, Rush has an answer for that. Free enterprise, low taxation, deregulation! But I'll bet he still depends on that emergency room to be open for celebrity overdoses. As for stressing the schools, well, we should all have vouchers.

Bah. Don't think my my temper's cooled quite enough.

[Truth29]

Support Tom Tncredo. My email to him below:




Congressman Tancredo: Keep up the good fight. You are a lonely voice of reason fighting the uncontrolled mass immigration of illegal aliens. You must win this fight or the US will be lost. A nation that cannot control its borders will soon lose its identity. Gradual, controlled immigration that allows for assimilation is a good thing. The present situation is a dangerous invasion that will destroy us. President Bush's proposed amnesty for illegals (even if he won't call it amnesty) is a danger to America and will lead to millions more coming across our borders. Mass illegal immigration is a greater danger to this country than islamic terrorism. This plan must be stopped or the US will go the way of the Roman empire. Do you accept conributions for the effort to defeat the various plans to reward illegal aliens? If you do, I would like to send what I can. Thank you

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[GodBlessUSA]

I respect all of your views so I hope mine will be respected as well. That said, I'm prepared to be flamed for my view by someone as I've read some pretty nasty comments to those who don't agree on other threads. It's sad to see this on Free Republic to say the least.

TO THOSE WHO WON'T VOTE FOR PRESIDENT BUSH AGAIN:

A democrat will win this election. The UN will dictate our foreign policy. Maybe France will have say. Our tax cuts gone, the list will go on. But go ahead get so mad about this issue and let a democrat win instead. There are to many with this kind of logic that it scares me. Terrorists are praying to Allah that Bush loses.

I worry. I live on Long Island in NY. I was in NYC shortly after the destruction of the World Trade Center attack. My husband flew out on business early that very morning. I know of people who died and the family left behind. I have family/friends who, by the grace of God, survived that day. I have a family member who lives in D.C. That makes me recognize that now it's not voting for the lesser of two evils. At this point, it is a vote for the man will protect America the best to prevent such horrific terrorist attacks from happening again. The world is far from perfect. Who knows what has already been thwarted. If we only have two candidates to chose from that will actually win this election, I choose the one who will defend America against attack. A man who will support and give our troops all they require to fight this war. To me, our time to protest is during 2008. Right now it is too dangerous. I understand why some will feel betrayed by this policy. Though, I have to say I think many have not read the entire policy. It may be the only way to take the first step to address this issue. It’s not the end of America. How about putting energy into lobbying to make English our primary language.

It’s unbelievable to see people choose not to vote for Bush at this critical time of war to chance one of those eggheads (being kind) running in the democrat primaries.

[freeangel]

If he were willing to put only a fraction of the resources that it will take to give millions of ILLEGALS legitimacy into immigration enforcement NOW there would be no need to play this smoke and mirrors game in pandering to the hispanic vote.

[KantianBurke]

indeed. our future is going to be akin to the conditions of Brazil. but hey, Bush looks SOOO stunning in that flight suit of his!

[GodBlessUSA]

OOPS
I meant make English the only official language in America.

[Lady Eileen]

bttt

[sasafras]

Thanks for your post I copied it and sent it to Tancrado with my personal info. Hopefully we can contribute to some kind of fund to stop this from happenning.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Thanks for the contact info. A phone call has been to Tom's office.

For good measure I called my Congressman, who is working on the reelection campaign for President Bush instead of concentrating on his own reelection. I just thought I would make a point that I would vote for neither of them because of this.

[auboy]

It’s unbelievable to see people choose not to vote for Bush at this critical time of war to chance one of those eggheads (being kind) running in the democrat primaries.

This bears repeating!

[GunsareOK]

Tom Tancredo Bump for a real Republican!