Posted on 02/04/2005 4:26:13 AM PST by billorites
U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado wants to hold Presidential candidates' feet to the fire to help stop illegal immigration and secure the country's borders.
"This is an issue I want all the Presidential candidates to debate. I want the candidates when they come here to answer the questions, 'What are you going to do about the borders? Will you commit troops to the border?' " Tancredo, a Republican, said in an interview with The Union Leader.
Illegal immigration and securing the country's borders affect every aspect of American life, including jobs, health care, education and national security, he said.
"The issue is where do you get cheaper workers. Cheap is only that to employers, not to the American taxpayers," he said.
Tancredo came to New Hampshire on a two-day trip to raise the issue of immigration reform together with Angela "Bay" Buchanan, chairman of Team America, a political action committee focusing on immigration reform. Tancredo is the founding chairman of the organization.
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.
Tancredo will also speak on several radio programs, including the "Howie Carr Show" on WRKO radio today at 5 p.m. He will meet with Republican state representatives and conservative activists, and he will speak at Nashua Christian High School.
Yesterday, Tancredo was critical of the Bush administration's position to allow illegal immigrants already in the United States to remain here under a "guest worker" program. "He says he is against amnesty, and then in the next sentence he defines amnesty. That's Clintonesque, and it really bugs me," he said.
Tancredo said Bush is proposing amnesty and will encourage billions more people to cross the border illegally and tell everyone who entered legally they are suckers.
Congress last year authorized doubling the number of border control offices, but former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge refused to spend the money, he said. "If something (like the terrorist attacks of 9/11) happens, you tell me someone shouldn't be liable with the attitude of this administration," Tancredo said.
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.
Until the number of patrol officers is doubled, Tancredo said, he would have the military help watch the borders. "We could seal the borders, but we choose not to" because of political pressure, he said.
He said he is finding more and more converts to his way of thinking.
"If this were not an issue for John Q. Public, it would not be an issue in Congress," he said.
Tancredo, in his fourth term in the U.S. House, serves on the House International Relations and Resources Committee and on the Budget Committee. He is chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus.
Tancredo was a school teacher before serving in the Colorado Legislature and then in the U.S. Department of Education during the administrations of Ronald Reagan and the senior George Bush. He was also head of the Independence Institute, a libertarian-leaning think tank in Golden, Colo
Debunked by the owner of the company.
Nope, I thought it was mandatory.
Funny how that word keeps coming up. Hmm. Integrity. Must mean it's important.
Bwaaaaah....hah hah hah.... Yeah. Illiterate honor students. Now I've heard it all.
It appears you have not.
Are you still peddling that unfounded rumor about Tancredo using illegal aliens to remodel his house? How absolutely desperate of you!
This rumor was published by the notoriously pro-illegal immigration Denver Post which has had Tancredo in their crosshairs for quite awhile due to Tancredo's stand against illegal immigration.
The Denver Post could not prove that illegal aliens worked on Tancredo's house.
The Denver Post could not provide the names, or any other pertinent information, about the illegal aliens who they claim worked on Tancredo's house.
The contractor that Tancredo hired to do the work on his house denied that he used illegal aliens to do the work.
There is absolutely NO proof that illegal aliens worked on Tancredo's house. But if you want to make yourself look like a fool by bringing up unfounded rumors about Tancredo, by all means do so. The rest of us could then enjoy a good laugh at your expense.
You're not laughing, you're making excuses.
A person changing their mind doesn't equate into a lie. A lie is when a person says something that they know, at the time that they say it, is not truthful. If Tancredo honestly felt that he would only run for two terms and then step down, but then later changed his mind, then he did not lie. He simply changed his mind.
Perhaps. However, it shows an INCREDIBLE lack of character.
What a pathetic response. You're the one posting unfounded rumors about Tancredo.
FALSE
I posted what several newspapers reported. You don't think it was only the Post, do you?
Nope, I thought it was mandatory.
The program has been extended but it doesn't appear to be mandatory.
The Border Patrol is re-writing the national pursuit policy. The Border Patrol's old pursuit policy was a glaring example of political correctness run amok and the lack of intestinal fortitude needed to enforce immigration law. Hopefully the new policy will mirror ICE's pursuit policy which includes highspeed pursuits, ramming and shooting fleeing felons. Perhaps the Bush administration is starting do some good on illegal immigration.
Oh, he can just quit, buy another SS#, & get another job.
One of our 'local stories' was of a local womans fight with the IRS over back taxes due, from her 'other job' in New Jersey at a pizza joint.
She said IRS was telling her it was her job to 'prove' she wasn't working in TX & NJ at the same time........Single Mom, I guess she finally got things right.
Thanks for the info.
No problem.
Yep, & here they say the 'guide' will be RE-POSTED on the state website.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/education/article/0%2C1299%2CDRMN_957_3522694%2C00.html
Yep, that's what *Gov.* Bush used to tell us Texans.
That will not help much.
What is needed is a president to lead a revolution in the laws and courts stripping the welfare benefits, the citizenship of those born here from illegal aliens, voiding motor-voter laws, matricula cards, free health care and school care, etc.
Unless that is done, more border agents will not help.
If need be, hold impeachmnet hearings against Bush for failing to protect and defend our borders.
Somebody needs to re-write the 'catch & release' policy.
The 'revolving door' at the border must take up much of the agents time.
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