GOP embraces ex-outsider and his hard-line positions (Tancredo)

Houston Chronicle ^ | Dec. 17, 2005 | GEBE MARTINEZ

[nicmarlo]

their anti-Christ/Hitler/Stalin/Pol Pot figure has done nothing but shine and be a hero in defending our nation.

Absolutely true.

[Ron H.]

"I know that Mr. Tancredo is sincere, but I don't think he has been constructive," said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, the cosponsor of an immigration bill in the Senate. "Is a politician making a sincere effort at trying to find a solution to a problem? Or are they using it as a lightening rod to generate political support?"

As opposed to you Mr. Cornyn?! As a native Texan I'm ashamed of and for you Mr. Cornyn; please go away and take your and Bush's brand of conservatism with you as we Texans and Americans can't really afford it, it's bankrupting us all.

[azhenfud]

"I certainly never planned to be at odds with the president of my own party and my own leadership."

Believe me - we were driven away.

[YCTHouston]

Since I'm a sporadic Freeper, fill me in on "FROBL." I understand who it refers to, but don't know what it stands for.

[Ron H.]

Since I'm a sporadic Freeper, fill me in on "FROBL." I understand who it refers to, but don't know what it stands for.

FreeRepublic Open Borders Lobby, aka those on FreeRepublic who wholeheartedly support wide open borders of our nation with Mexico and Canada, to allow anyone at will to cross to and fro without restrictions. They believe it is okay for employers to hire these illegal aliens at whatever wages they can negotiate without regard to what it does to law abiding Americans and their families and our nations social infrastructure. They generally are world globalist trumpeters. Sound familiar?

[Brownie74]

Believe me - we were driven away.

Correct. I believe it is Sean Hannity that says that we have not deserted the Republicans - they have deserted us. I am not going to support any party that refuses to uphold our Constitution and our federal immigration laws.

I'm glad Tancredo is finally getting his moment in the sun.

[Borax Queen]

Thanks, Ron. One more thing if I may, I suspect many of the FROBLers profit from illegal labor (as in their businesses, or immigration law, or something along those lines). For all we know, they may be paid by foreign governments. One thing "they" rarely, rarely have is a state flag on their home page. Hmmmmmmmm.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Deport all criminal invaders ~ Bump!

[stephenjohnbanker]

"Press 2 to be deported...."

ROTF....

[stephenjohnbanker]

Tagline bump.....without this "single issue" nothing else will matter anyway!

[America's Resolve]

Thanks for the bump.

it really irks me that the D's are harder on this issue than the R's, what little that is.

Who the hell is supposed to be protecting this country anyways???

[stephenjohnbanker]

"Who the hell is supposed to be protecting this country anyways???"

Ahem..................the Minutemen.

[YCTHouston]

Thanks Ron.

Many libertarians have long argued for open borders, on philosophical grounds. The latest, pro-Bush open borders lobby I think falls into different categories:
1. People who abhor manual labor, and assume we need mexicans do the work "Americans won't do." They may also work in construction or restaurant businesses and benefit from cheap labor.
2. Those who see a wide-open North American economic bloc as a counter to the EU.

Neither group sees or cares what unchecked immigration does to the country and culture in the meantime.

[blackie]

~~ or ~ Hang 'em High ~ Bump!

[Borax Queen]

Neither group sees or cares what unchecked immigration does to the country and culture in the meantime.

Bump!

[Borax Queen]

"Between 1800 and 1965," Mr. Tancredo writes in his statement on the bill, "the annual number of people admitted as immigrants averaged about 200,000. Since 1990, that number has been over one million—and that doesn't count illegal immigrants."

With more than a million legal immigrants entering every year, there is no way the federal bureaucracies that deal with immigrants and national security threats could handle the problem.

It would take an army larger than any in the world simply to keep track of the aliens who are already here.

But national security, an obvious and immediate threat, is only part of the problem with mass immigration. The larger problem is the impact the immigration numbers have—on the economy, the culture, the educational system, crime and social institutions generally. And even larger than that is the number problem by itself.

Mr. Tancredo in his statement remarked "The Census Bureau projects that U.S. population will hit 400 million by 2050 and 571 million by 2100"—up from 280 million in the 2000 Census.

But the congressman's numbers were outdated only weeks after he cited them. This month the Census Bureau announced that by 2050, the national population will stand at 420 million, 17 million more than the previous estimate.

If you like sitting in traffic, standing in line, paying skyrocketing rents and home prices, and watching natural resources vanish to sustain this level of human numbers, you'll think the America of the future is a utopia.

Excerpted from 2003 article The Tancredo Moratorium Bill

[Ron H.]

Neither group sees or cares what unchecked immigration does to the country and culture in the meantime.

I would concur.

[nosofar]

Once again, legal immigration and ILlegal immigration are completely conflated.