[tahiti]

"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?' " U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado

Tom, please re-read the Constitution.

Article I, Section 8 Powers of Congress, Cl 15

To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions:

You and the rest of members of Congress don't have to wait for the President to "commit troops to the border."

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.

[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.

[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!