Posted on 06/08/2006 10:34:34 AM PDT by NapkinUser
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO), Chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus, welcomed Representative-Elect Brian Bilbray (R-CA) to the IRC as its 98th member. Bilbray won a special election yesterday in California’s 50th district, spanning San Diego’s northern suburbs.
“Brian has long been a strong advocate of secure borders and tough enforcement of immigration laws. As a former Member and a spokesperson for a non-profit reform group, Brian has worked with me on immigration and I know he’ll be a tremendous asset to my party as we try to block the Senate’s amnesty pact,” said Tancredo.
Bilbray ran primarily on border security. During the campaign, he promised to fight against amnesty for illegal aliens while adding personnel and infrastructure to the border. His opponent endorsed the McCain-Kennedy bill which gives blanket amnesty to illegal aliens, includes only token border security, and has a guest worker plan that ratchets up over several years.
“San Diegans sent a message loud and clear to beltway backers of amnesty: you don’t represent us. Brian had to weather a perfect storm—a sour national mood towards Republicans, and a district that is the perfect testing ground for the Democrats so-called ‘culture of corruption’ message. But a tough stand on immigration carried the day,” said Tancredo.
Can you post the link to tom's old plan? I oppose it and Pence is wrong on this issue. There should be enforcement only and a guest worker program for immigrants going through the legal process after the can properly screen them which won't be until 2011 according to a GAO report.
I meant the whole immigration issue is a circus. I didn't intend to convey they Mr. Tancredo was a RINO.
I think the illegal immigration issue is more like a zoo, donkeys, elephants and rinos...try spending a week in the barrios of Los Angeles and you will see what happens when our borders, language and culture are not enforced...its a zoo...
Oh no, my friend; it's MUCH more dangerous than a zoo! And that, really, was my point. We should have secured our borders on 9/12/01, using the National Guard (that's their job, after all, isn't it?). The fact that we have not is a travesty, and the debate over it has been a circus.
Yep, Law Of the Sea Treaty is a bad idea from a lot of angles. The most basic being that it is a potentially huge expansion of UN powers, even to effectively giving them the right to confiscate technology from private firms so it can be given away to competitors.
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