The "honor student" is an illegal alien.
Actually, it went more like this:
The Denver Post ran a front page story about this "honor student" (Sunday edition, I believe) and his family, presumably at the request of and in collaboration with the local Mexican Consulate. If I remember correctly, the point of the article was to drum up support to allow financial aid and/or in state tuition for illegal aliens -- something along those lines.
After seeing this on the front page of the Denver Post, one of Tancredo's constituents contacted him and inquired as to why this family could openly flaunt their illegal status in this manner.
Congressman Tancredo doing what Congress people are supposed to do researched the issue by calling the director of the local INS office and asked about the policy of the INS in matters such as this. He also asked general questions such as "If I walked up to you on the street and told you that I was in this country illegally, would I be deported?". Tancredo made no formal or informal request that this student be deported.
The major Denver and Boulder papers which are owned by same company started a smear campaign against Tancredo accusing him of hiring illegal aliens indirectly through a contractor. The papers unembarrassed themselves and came out looking like idiots because they could not produce any documentation that the "undocumented workers" ever existed, and, as far as I know, they still haven't produced that documentation. The last I heard, the contractor was contemplating a suit against the papers.
Tancredo went on several talk radio shows and took calls about this -- unfavorable calls were not screened out on the shows I heard. He was also interviewed at least once on one of the cable news channels. If he declined interviews by the Denver Post, etc. that would be understandable, IMO -- I don't know if he did or not.
If the student didn't want to be deported and had the tiniest respect for our laws, he wouldn't have flaunted his illegal status in the way he did. Apparently, the arrogant Mexican Consulate felt pretty secure in thinking that Mexican citizens have immunity where our immigration laws are concerned -- and that is a big part of the problem.
So Tancredo changed his mind. No law against that. By the way, the voters in his district overwhelmingly re-elected him to a third term in Congress. I guess they let him know what they thought of him!
the guy who wanted to see an honor student deported.
Are you referring to that illegal alien lawbreaker honor student? He ought to be deported.