Posted on 11/30/2006 8:30:21 AM PST by Dane
Seems to me Colorado isn't exactly white bread any more. Perhaps Tancredo should deal with his own problems before worrying about Florida.
IMO, many Republicans need to be attacked.
This thread is not a duplicate, and I just you read some of the other comments on this thread. Not all are as silly as mine.
Quit digging, Tom.
LOL, this could be the springboard that launches Jeb to the presidency .... we could be so lucky
How is that bad?
Another class act from an a-hole elected offical ready to serve the voters in Washington.
He will never be any more than he is today.
LLS
No, Tancredo's next junket should be to the statue of liberty, not to read the inscription (penned, if I be not mistaken, by a Communist poet) but to remove said inscription, if not the entire statue.
The Tank is now a member of the House Minority. What little influence he had before is now gone anyway.
This Congressman from Colorado was on a visit to Florida and decided to publicly trash the largest city in that state. The immigration issue is not the issue; the issue is that NO state is going to appreciate any Congresscritter showing up and criticising their state.
Imagine the uproar if Congressman Rangel came down to Georgia and decried all the rednecks that live in the state. Nobody in Georgia would appreciate that. Rangel wouldn't do that, because even he wouldn't be that stupid. You don't trash another Congresscritter's district; you are in Congress to represent your own, not dump on others.
There are plenty of Latinos and Latinas who live in Miami that are US Citizens and are neither from Mexico nor Cuba -- like my stepmother and her family who are from Venezuela. I like many of the Latinos is Miami a lot more than I like blowhards like Tancredo.
The Tank would have been well advised to help work out the best deal he could with the Senate and the President last year. He didn't. Guess what -- he won't even be a bit player in '07 on this issue and the Bill that will pass will be even less to his liking than what he could have helped pass last year. No, it wouldn't have been exactly what he wanted -- but it would have helped.
I actually hope he does run for President. After he gets crushed we won't be bothered by his nonsense in the future.
Maybe he can form an anti-social Congresscritters' Club with Webb.
Okie dokie, for what it seems to be a hybrid of a tancredo, buchanan, and osama supporter.
Is any of this the fault of the immigrants? No, it's the fault of the hosts who fail to insist on the use of English--as much a culture as a language. WE, not the immigrants, have allowed diversity to trump amalgamation.
Miami is just a bastion of virtue!! And it looks like Miami has an illegal alien Cuban problem. It's even a "sanctuary city".
Immigration and the Alien Gang Epidemic: Problems and Solutions
In September, 2003, the Miami police arrested a Honduran visa violator for seven vicious rapes. The previous year, Miami cops had had the suspect in custody for lewd and lascivious molestation. Pursuant to Miamis sanctuary law, however, the police had never checked his immigration status. Had they done so, they would have discovered his deportable status, and could have forestalled the rapes.
The Miami Police Department will join with ICE only on high-level gang cases.
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/mac_donald04-13-05.htm
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From the book, "The Reapers Line" from an account of justice--and injustice--on the Mexican border by a retired U.S. Customs special agent
"Douglas and Cochise County are one of the main pipelines for drugs coming into the U.S., second only to Miami."
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Currents/Content?oid=88713
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Gonzalez-Hernandez, 38, and Noel Lopez, 32, were arrested on Aug. 15 aboard a 25-foot boat after 20 Cuban nationals, including a pregnant woman and a 1-year-old boy, came ashore at the north end of the Judge S.S. Jolley Bridge at Marco Island.
They are charged with conspiracy to bring aliens into the United States. A subsequent indictment on Sept. 13 charged the men with "knowingly and willfully" bringing illegal aliens into the U.S.
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2006/nov/13/judge_deny_request_cuban_smuggler/?latest
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Sports agent indicted in smuggling scheme for Cuban baseball players
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/15895990.htm
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Two leaders of a nationwide employee-leasing conspiracy, that leased out hundreds of illegal aliens throughout the United States, pleaded guilty before US District Judge Kenneth Marra in the Southern District of Florida, while a third defendant was sentenced, according to the US Justice Department.
"In using illegal aliens to generate their profits, the defendants not only took advantage of these individuals, but also potentially compromised the safety of our citizens," he added.
"In this case, the defendants laundered roughly $20 million and failed to pay $6 million in taxes as part of this illegal employee leasing scheme," said Julie Myers, Department of Homeland Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=13603
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The unions love the illegal aliens in Florida!
IMMIGRANTS IN FLORIDA
Unions want to bring illegal immigrants into fold
That 180-degree shift in strategy provides a wealth of recruitment potential in bellwether states like Florida. Only about 6 percent of the Sunshine State's total work force is unionized. Only 2 percent of its all-important construction industry is organized compared with 13 percent nationwide.
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060719/BUSINESS/
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200 Haitians Scramble From Boat in Florida
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E0DE133FF933A05753C1A9649C8B63&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fSubjects%2fI%2fIllegal%20Immigrants
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Hundreds of Haitian Illegal Aliens Invade Miami
MIAMI An estimated 200 Haitian illegal aliens aboard a 50-foot coastal freighter jumped into Biscayne Bay and waded ashore Tuesday on the Rickenbacker ...
www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/10/29/180422.shtml
"He is attacking an illegal immigration apologist and rationalizer"
I thought Bush was just sticking up for Florida.
True but just don't do it here. If Pelosi would put a (R) behind her name & Tancredo said a derogative these people here would still be all over Tom. Remember this is a conservative site - NOT a republican site.
They said that 100 years ago when my (Russian and Polish Jewish) grandparents came to Ellis Island, along with the Italians, Irish and Poles.
Emma Lazarus a communist? You have something to back that up?
"Maybe he should switch partys."
Like Bush did? Nah, Tancredo's too smart for that.
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