Tancredo hits Bush on immigration

Manchester Union Leader ^ | February 4, 2005 | Gary Rayno

[Dad2Angels]

How many more states fall before our so-called "leaders", so secure in their ivory towers, finally get it??

When the ivory towers begin to fall, unfortunately.

[Leatherneck_MT]

Their first stop was to present an American Patriot Award to New Ipswich Police Chief Garrett Chamberlain; he detained nine Ecuadorian immigrants last summer, but federal officials told him to release them.

These "Federal Officials" should be immediately charged with dereliction of duty and thrown out of whatever job it is that they do.

WE pay their GD Salaries and if the SOBs will not do their jobs then it is time for them to go on unemployment.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Step up to the plate and begin to insist that your fellow members of Congress do the job they were sworn to do and call up the Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California militias to repel the invasion.

Congress has voted to authorize the military be put on the borders several times in the last few years. The problem is the Senate, they have other ideas about protecting the US.

[You Dirty Rats]

This problem is destroying our country.

We're all going to die!!

[Reaganwuzthebest]

He said he will introduce a bill this session to double the number of border patrol officers and train them to use technology for better surveillance of the borders. He estimated it would cost about $8 million to double the border patrol and several billion dollars for the technology.

What I don't understand is the extra guards have already been approved by Congress, why don't they just add the funding that was left out in the budget themselves? As far as I know they're free to do that so what's the need for a new bill?

[ravingnutter]

THANK YOU! Bush does not make law, Congress does. If they want something done so bad, why don't they get off their collective dead butts and do something instead of constantly harping at Bush. The fact that Tancredo is flapping his gums about the Bush so-called "amnesty plan" is laughable. First of all, Bush never submitted any legislation or formal proposal, he laid out a broad outline in a speech and said Congress should work out any details. IOW, there is no Bush plan in Congress, period. Secondly, Tancredo previously stated that the vague so-called "amnesty plan" was DOA. So what's his beef? He had legislation in the last session that we all could have lived with that ended up sitting in some subcommittee, he needs to revive that and push it through (with our support) instead of beating a dead horse. Then and only then will I count him as a hero on this issue as some on here do.

C'mon Tancredo, put your legislation where your mouth is!

[desherwood7]

Once Again, Tancredo is right in what he is doing. We need to hold not just the President's feet to the fire, We need to hold all of his successors as well.

[Dane]

Hi nanak. At least you aren't spamming every thread with tancredo's picture.

[gubamyster]

ping

[Dane]

Just because Bush is the president doesn't mean that we shouldn't be critical of him when he acts the fool like he's doing on this issue. Afterall we voted him into office to represent us, not Mexico or any other foreign entity for that matter

Actually trying to get these people above ground is not foolish, the honest ones who just want to work will, opening up more resources to go after the terrorists.

[skeeter]

Bush is a good man, but he needs to be read the riot act on this issue.

Save your 'political capitol' for something ALL Americans really need, Mr President - SSI reform. Looks like you're gonna need all of it just for that one issue.

[FBD]

>"C'mon Tancredo, put your legislation where your mouth is!"<

Why are you shouting? He already has- H.R. 418.

[skeeter]

Welcome & thanks.

[truthkeeper]

Many thanks for your service to our country. God bless you.

[ravingnutter]

Why are you shouting? He already has- H.R. 418.

Because I am sick of watching him beat a dead horse. He's already admitted that what Bush outlined in his speech was DOA. And FYI, if you will check Thomas Legislation H.R. 418 was submitted by Sensenbrenner, Tancredo is only a co-sponsor. And from what I have scanned in the text, it is not nearly enough.

[FBD]

>"We're all going to die!"<

- Not all of us FRiend, just the unfortunate victims:

Like my friends son, who was shot during a robbery by a Mexican gang banger, while working at an all night gas station in Phoenix.

He was putting himself through college, doing one of those jobs that "Americans refuse to do."

The gang banger was Id'd on camera, but he hightailed it back over the border, to Mexico. He is free to come back over the border, while a fine young man now lies in the grave yard.

He became a statistic, but he is not alone:

Crime Victims of illegal aliens:
http://www.immigrationshumancost.org/text/crimevictims.html

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"The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave"
Heather Mac Donald

http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html

In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500) target illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens.

• A confidential California Department of Justice study reported in 1995 that 60 percent of the 20,000-strong 18th Street Gang in southern California are illegal aliens.

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I received this following Freepmail from a California Highway Patrolman:

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"As former Law Enforcement, I knew this statistic before I retired. There are tons of crooks that committed some crime here, bugged out, and are now living comfortably in " their country" Mexico.


I formulated a truth while in my 31 year career. That is:
"Statistics don't mean squat unless you are one"
EXAMPLE: Most car crashes are NOT news unless someone dies. However, if some Illegal hits you (don't seem to matter that he has no license or insurance, and the car is not in his name, and he is drunk-driving), you are now paralyzed. Now that Statistic has meaning for you.

I was Calif. Highway Patrol. I knew of at least TEN instances like the example. Even if the guy got arrested at the scene, he would be given bail, and disappear " south of the border".

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[ravingnutter]

He has his pointmen in Congress that he goes to in order to push the legislation he wants.

Yes, he does, but he was told publicly, by none other than Tancredo, amongst others, that his broad outline was DOA. If Tancredo thinks he can do a much better job, then where is his alternative plan? There are two immigration reform bills in subcommittees right now, neither was submitted by Tancredo, he is only a co-sponsor, and they are nothing like the comprehensive plan he submitted in the last session, that also got bogged down in the subcommittees and apparently died. I applauded him then, I think we all could have lived with that one. Right now I am just frustrated that he continues to beat Bush's dead horse rather than resuscitating that plan.