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Tancredo slams Bush over immigration
Nashua Telegraph ^ | Wednesday, Sep. 26, 2007 | By KEVIN LANDRIGAN Telegraph Staff

Posted on 09/26/2007 6:24:59 AM PDT by SittinYonder

NASHUA – Republican presidential candidate Rep. Tom Tancredo, of Colorado, said President Bush's failure to enforce existing immigration laws is "despicable" and leading to a domestic crisis.

If elected, Tancredo, 61, said he'd ask Congress to require the withdrawal of Social Security taxes from all employee wages to make it easier for the federal government to track and deport illegal aliens.

"If we don't like our immigration laws, if we think they are wrong, repeal them. If we don't think they are wrong, enforce them," Tancredo said during an interview with The Telegraph editorial board at Nashua High School South.

"Don't keep ignoring our laws, which this president has been doing, which is despicable," Tancredo said.

To Tancredo, Bush's failure to crack down more on employers who employ undocumented workers and to maintain border security amounts to a high crime.

"If he could be impeached for dereliction of duty, a bill could be brought. Unfortunately, that is not grounds," Tancredo said.

"He has avoided dealing with this issue to a point where we are at a crisis, I believe, and it is just unconscionable."

A six-term congressman, Tancredo said illegal immigration has become the centerpiece of his campaign, due to the role it's played in rising health-care costs, availability of jobs and crime.

"It is the most serious domestic policy we face, it has enormous ramifications for America, legal or illegal immigration, period, because of the lack of assimilation that has occurred," Tancredo said.

Employers need to increase the wages of the low-skill jobs instead of hiring illegal immigrants, Tancredo said. He insisted the private economy cost for such a move would be lower than the costs of educating and caring for those who are here illegally.

Tancredo said an illegal alien serving in the military should be placed on a path to citizenship, but all other undocumented citizens must return to their former home.

"I have compassion for people who have done it the right way," Tancredo said.

On Iraq, Tancredo said after this November, U.S. combat forces should disengage from serving as that country's police force and redeploy much of its troops elsewhere in the Middle East.

"I think we'll have to be in Iraq proper, in the oil fields. The numbers I don't know yet," said Tancredo who serves on the House International Affairs Committee.

Tancredo defended his statement on a Florida radio talk show in 2005 when he favored "taking out" Muslim holy sites if he learned fundamentalist extremists used nuclear weapons to attacks the U.S.

"What can you do to create a deterrent? I put this out there as a proposal," said Tancredo, adding he's received death threats in response to it.

"You have to think what is motivating them . . . I think they are acting because of a religious interpretation they have of Islam."

Dave Burgess, of Hudson, a member of The Telegraph Reader Advisory Network, asked if the attacks against Iraq and Afghanistan were justified based on the terrorist attacks against the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001, even though al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has not been captured.

"I think the response against the Taliban in Afghanistan was absolutely appropriate," Tancredo responded. "To call Iraq a response to 9-11 is inaccurate."

A former junior high school teacher and federal education official, Tancredo said the U.S. role in public schools should be limited, the reason for his opposition to the federal No Child Left Behind law.

Tancredo supports converting federal spending to education block grants for the state and taxpayer-financed vouchers that let parents pick the public, private or parochial school of their choice.

"I want to focus on the kid and not the system," Tancredo added.

Consumers should be able to buy their own health insurance with the help of tax-free health savings accounts rather than get it primarily through their private employers, Tancredo said.

And he supports President Bush's threatened veto of the House-passed expansion of the Child Health Insurance Program for the states.

After the interview, Tancredo spoke and then took questions from social studies students in the school auditorium.

The Telegraph plans to interview all major presidential candidates at Nashua South.

Media students from both Nashua high schools are videotaping these sessions and plan to broadcast them live on the school's Web site with streaming audio and video. There is a link to the video at nashuatelegraph.com.


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To: SittinYonder

You ego is all that matters on this. Everything I’ve noted about Tom Tancredo is 100% accurate. Anyone reading your posts above can see this for themselves.

Its not ‘smearing’ to note the guy has no chance of winning the nomination. Likewise, its not ‘smearing’ noting he’s a second tier candidate. And he’s made some foolish comments like ‘nuke mecca’ as I referenced. Again its not a smear to note who said what, and in what context.

As I noted in my first post on this thread, I agree with his view on border security and illegal immigration. But the fact remains his flaws outweight this one position that I support. He runs off at the mouth when aggitated, and its kept him from being taken seriously by the general voting population, as poll after poll after poll demonstrates.

You are supporting him for President, and I wish you luck. I don’t see it ever getting to the point where his name is on the ballot come November of 08.

Piece of advice, if you begin as you did with me a couple of hours ago, you won’t gain a single ‘convert’ to your cause. You’ll just get slapped back in a public forum repeatedly, as is the case here.


21 posted on 09/26/2007 11:01:35 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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To: SittinYonder

yawnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn. Tancredo is irrelevant and has NO CHANCE.

VOTE DUNCAN HUNTER


22 posted on 09/26/2007 11:05:46 AM PDT by ulm1 ("democrat" originated as an epithet "'one who panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses")
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To: Badeye
Piece of advice, if you begin as you did with me a couple of hours ago, you won’t gain a single ‘convert’ to your cause.

You've got a history of trashing Tancredo. I've given you up as unconvertable.

Everything I’ve noted about Tom Tancredo is 100% accurate

As I've noted repeatedly, that's not true.

23 posted on 09/26/2007 11:25:00 AM PDT by SittinYonder (Ic þæt gehate, þæt ic heonon nelle fleon fotes trym, ac wille furðor gan)
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To: SittinYonder

I hope he isn’t as fragile as some of his supporters.

And no, noting what he says, and commenting on it being dumb most of time isn’t ‘trashing’ him.

You want to see me trash a politician, note any random Ron Paul thread, or Pelosi thread, or Murtha thread.


24 posted on 09/26/2007 11:29:27 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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To: Badeye

Misrepresenting Tancredo’s position and comparing him to Murtha in the process isn’t trashing him?


25 posted on 09/26/2007 11:30:58 AM PDT by SittinYonder (Ic þæt gehate, þæt ic heonon nelle fleon fotes trym, ac wille furðor gan)
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To: SittinYonder
In other news, dog bites man.

Tancredo slams Bush.... nothing new there, not even the topic.

26 posted on 09/26/2007 11:31:08 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: SittinYonder

‘On Iraq, Tancredo said after this November, U.S. combat forces should disengage from serving as that country’s police force and redeploy much of its troops elsewhere in the Middle East. ‘

Murtha has also called for ‘redeploying’ troops ‘elsewhere’.

You know this, I know this, everybody in the forum knows this.

Murtha was wrong then, Tancredo is wrong now. The difference is Tancredo has had the benefit of six months of blowback towards Murtha, and yet did the same thing with this.

Its not a ‘smear’ its a valid observation, and the words ‘redeploy’ don’t change meaning with who says it.

Sheesh. Like I said, I hope Tancredo isn’t as fragile as some of his supporters apparently are. If you can’t take an opinion thats not to your liking without blowing up...well, thats whats at the heart of the concerns about Tancredo to begin with.


27 posted on 09/26/2007 11:35:09 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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To: Badeye
Murtha has also called for ‘redeploying’ troops ‘elsewhere’.

That's not what Tancredo has said. He said the Iraq troops should be responsible for policing Iraq. He's said the troops can redeploy in Iraq but should not be the police force in Iraq.

Its not a ‘smear’ its a valid observation, and the words ‘redeploy’ don’t change meaning with who says it.

It's a smear when it's a misrepresentation of what he has said, particularly by comparing him to Murtha who has accused American soldiers of murder.

But that's the beauty of a public forum where anyone can post anything ... you don't have to have facts to trash good conservatives, you can just say it and hope it sticks.

28 posted on 09/26/2007 12:01:13 PM PDT by SittinYonder (Ic þæt gehate, þæt ic heonon nelle fleon fotes trym, ac wille furðor gan)
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To: SittinYonder

‘On Iraq, Tancredo said after this November, U.S. combat forces should disengage from serving as that country’s police force and redeploy much of its troops elsewhere in the Middle East. ‘

Thats what he said in the quote. FROH.

I get it, your for Tancredo. Its a lost cause, but thats your right as an American voter.

Pretty sure we’ve covered all this a couple of times now, time to find something more interesting.

Peace.


29 posted on 09/26/2007 12:10:30 PM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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To: SittinYonder
New Rome Tacitus (who likes to call Tancredo a racist and get his posts pulled by the admin moderator)

Whoa, whoa, whoa! You are gravely mistaken about that: I have been a huge supporter of Mr. Tancredo ever since I attended a speech he made in Nashville a few years ago. My homie ArnoldPalmerFan and I have exchanged FReepmail discussing Tom's chances of getting elected. My other neighbor Wardaddy will also corroborate my support for Tancredo.

Plus, I haven't had a comment pulled in years. Perhaps you've confused me for Rome2000 or one of the other screen names of a similar vein.

30 posted on 09/26/2007 3:46:11 PM PDT by NewRomeTacitus
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To: SittinYonder; arnoldpalmerfan; wardaddy

Re post #30

Tancredo can’t be a racist because his press spokesman is an American of Hispanic descent. You’ve got me wondering who’s been spreading that lie. I certainly don’t enjoy having it attributed to me. Hell, I caught the man in the hotel bar following his speech and berated the bartender for “just letting anyone in”...and got to speak with him one on one for twenty minutes before his minder came for him. Mr. Tancredo is the genuine deal.

Tom WAS right to tell the fanatical Islamists that their “holy sites” would be targeted should we be attacked again. Fanatics and psychopaths do not understand reason nor logic - they understand force. Tancredo merely said what the President should have said right after 9-11-2001.


31 posted on 09/26/2007 4:07:58 PM PDT by NewRomeTacitus
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To: NewRomeTacitus; Badeye
Perhaps you've confused me for Rome2000 or one of the other screen names of a similar vein.

Crap ... sorry, it is Rome2000 I was thinking of. I skipped back to one of the threads where Rome2000 had made statements about Tancredo, saw your screen name and typed it in without looking to verify that I had the correct "Rome" screen name.

I am very sorry.

32 posted on 09/26/2007 7:20:21 PM PDT by SittinYonder (Ic þæt gehate, þæt ic heonon nelle fleon fotes trym, ac wille furðor gan)
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To: SittinYonder

Salright...the obnoxiousness made me think of that poster straight away. Lot of that going around lately.

BTW, if people like myself didn’t write Tancredo into the Primaries he wouldn’t be up their today keeping the other monkeys on the straight and narrow. But you couldn’t tell that to all the members who cried “You wasted your vote!”

Seems to me my vote went a lot farther than theirs did.


33 posted on 09/26/2007 7:39:26 PM PDT by NewRomeTacitus
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To: SittinYonder

No problem, I appreciate the zeal with which you are supporting ‘your guy’.


34 posted on 09/27/2007 6:04:53 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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To: SittinYonder

It’s good to see Tancredo is coming to NY and speak out against Spitzer’s idiocy in granting licenses to illegals. We need all the help we can get..


35 posted on 10/02/2007 6:49:01 PM PDT by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: SittinYonder

I’ve always liked Tancredo. I really wish he could get more airtime from guys like Rush and Hannity. If more people could actually hear what his ideas are they might start leaving those other shlubs like Rudy.


36 posted on 10/02/2007 6:54:13 PM PDT by oldvike
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