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>>>>I, for one, cannot comprehend how a President who has sworn to upon the Constitution to protect this nation from foreign and domestic enemies can sit back and shrug his shoulders at the dangerous illegal problem.

Here's how Cong Tom Tancredo explained it in an interview with John Hawkins of Rightwingnews.com, just prior to the last election.

Hawkins: In poll after poll, by a large margin, Americans have appeared to support cracking down on illegal immigrants. Why do we have so many people in government who still don't seem to take our immigration laws seriously?

Tancredo: Because they don't believe that people will vote on it exclusively. Most of colleagues believe that they will be able to finesse this issue. That is to say, that they will be able to tell their constituents "Yes it is a problem, we'll have to look at it," but it won't be the thing most people vote on, it won't be the ultimate issue. As long as that's the case, they can get by with finessing it.

Hawkins: But why are they finessing it? Why not just take it on?

Tancredo: There are three reasons. The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters. The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency. The third reason, of course, is that the President of the United States is trying to create a wedge issue here and trying to get a portion of Hispanics to vote for him where they haven't in the past. So you have these three huge problems with trying to get anything done in the Congress.