If you visit Miami today and you've been there before, years ago, you would probably agree with Tancredo.
Here in the conservative end of Florida (Panhandle) we used to see bumper stickers in the 80's that read: "Will the last American to leave Miami please bring the flag".
But there is a bit of a twist. Most of Miami's immigrants are legal and came from Cuba.
They are almost the exact opposite of the Mexicans swarming our borders to the west that Tancredo is familiar with.
Florida had the nation's fifth highest number of illegal immigrants in its population in 2000 according to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). And that was in 2000, it hasn't improve since than.
My bet would be the majority are in Miami-Dade county.
"But there is a bit of a twist. Most of Miami's immigrants are legal and came from Cuba."
They just probably all look like Mexicans to Tancredo.
Don't tell me you are one of the last people who haven't figured out that the Tancredo crowd doesn't like legal immigrants much more then they like illegal ones.
His position is essentially this, "I like legal immigrants, but we don't want more of them, matter of fact, we want a lot less."
Which essentially means, "I don't like immigrants."
Tancredo is an idiot.