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White House Inundated with Petitions; Americans Want Troops on U.S. Border
Press Release ^
| 6/21/02
| Office of Rep. Tancredo
Posted on 06/21/2002 1:11:08 PM PDT by Tancredo Fan
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: LARA KENNEDY
JUNE 21, 2002 (202) 226-6999
Cell: (202)225-5390
CONGRESSIONAL IMMIGRATION REFORM CAUCUS' PETITION TO PRESIDENT OVERWHELMS WHITE HOUSE EMAIL SYSTEM
White House Inundated with Petitions; Americans Want Troops on U.S. Border
WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Representative Tom Tancredo (R-CO), Chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, today announced that the Caucus' petition urging the President to immediately deploy troops along the U.S. border has overwhelmed the White House email system.
"Perhaps the White House is finally getting the message," said Tancredo. "It's about time they realize that the people of this country justifiably feel that the U.S. border is a sieve. It poses a real threat to our security and ignoring this fact represents the most egregious evidence that the federal government is shirking its responsibility to the people of this nation."
Since Rep. Tancredo posted the petition on Tuesday, June 11, 2002, approximately 11,403 petitions have been sent electronically to the White House. Due to the overwhelming response, the White House email system is overloaded. To sustain their email system operations, the system is sending an auto-reply to each petition with a "service unavailable" warning.
To access the petition, please visit www.house.gov/tancredo or www.house.gov/tancredo/immigration
TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Canada; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: illegalimmigration; military; nationalsecurity
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To: healey22; lutine; Right_Makes_Might; wku man; sonofliberty2; Fishing Fool; kattracks; sarcasm; ...
A 'good news' ping
To: Tancredo Fan
"It poses a real threat to our security and ignoring this fact represents the most egregious evidence that the federal government is shirking its responsibility to the people of this nation."Boy let's all burn this statement into our brains.
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posted on
06/21/2002 1:14:59 PM PDT
by
Kerberos
To: Tancredo Fan
11,403 e-mails can crash the White House system?
To: Tancredo Fan
BTTT!
To: Tancredo Fan
Good news but I'm betting it's still falling on deaf ears.
To: jdogbearhunter; da_toolman; phasma proeliator
Ping.
To: Tancredo Fan
How's the White House going to spin this?
LOL!
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posted on
06/21/2002 1:20:43 PM PDT
by
4Freedom
To: The Energizer
To sustain their email system operations, the Whitehouse system is sending an auto-reply to each petition with a "service unavailable" warning.In other words, we don't want to hear it, and we don't give a damn what the hard working, law abiding citizens what.
To: Bikers4Bush
I wont take that bet.
To: Kerberos
One of the very limited Constitutional roles of the federal gov't is to protect the country from outside invasion.
Giving money earned by achievers to people who break our laws to enter the country illegally is NOT one of these Constitutionally mandated roles.
Guess which is more important to the politicos...
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posted on
06/21/2002 1:21:36 PM PDT
by
MrB
To: Tancredo Fan
Why would Bush do anything to damage his precious relationship with Globalist Vincente Fox. They have been collaborating on plans to grant amnesty you yet millions more Mexicans.
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posted on
06/21/2002 1:22:00 PM PDT
by
mconder
To: Atsilvquodi
Not opposed to keeping folks out, but eerily similar to the Berlin wall in a sense.
To: MrB
"One of the very limited Constitutional roles of the federal gov't is to protect the country from outside invasion. "Yes that seems to be something that our government has forgotten about.
I saw Tom Tancredo on Fox the other night and he is my kind of guy. It's about time someone in government stood up and said that, "hey this is enough of the BS."
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posted on
06/21/2002 1:25:58 PM PDT
by
Kerberos
To: Tancredo Fan
Yes, the White House has gotten the message. Out of 280 million Americans, 11,403 actually cared enough to send an email demanding that the troops be put on the border.
Of course, I'm in favor of deporting all illegal immigrants and their offspring.
v/r,
Chief Running Elk aka BeholdAPaleHorse
To: da_toolman
Yeah - I hear ya....
Course.... this is a BIT different!
To: da_toolman
Communist countries build walls to keep people
in.
We want to keep people out.
Big difference.
To: Tancredo Fan
From a recent poll I believe that 68% of Americans want to stop illegal immigration. Only 11k actually sent an e-mail to Washington. My question is how can we spread the word?
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