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Tancredo: 'I Don't Trust the President' on Border Security
CNSNews.com ^ | September 22, 2006 | Kevin Mooney

Posted on 09/22/2006 7:43:18 AM PDT by Dane

Tancredo: 'I Don't Trust the President' on Border Security By Kevin Mooney CNSNews.com Staff Writer September 22, 2006

(CNSNews.com) - An immigration compromise plan will not work, because President Bush cannot be trusted to "certify" America's borders are secure, Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) said Thursday.

In an effort to reconcile the divergent immigration bills in the House and Senate, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) and Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) put forth a compromise plan this summer that would require the president to "certify" the successful implementation of security measures along the most porous entry points into the U.S. before a guest worker program could be implemented.

"I don't trust the president to say the borders are secure," Tancredo told an audience at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. He said immigration policy should be formulated with an emphasis on law enforcement as opposed to "political pandering" for votes. Tancredo also cited a "disconnect" between "elite policy makers" and the American people.

This week, the Senate is considering House legislation that would authorize the construction of 700 miles of reinforced fencing along the most porous sections of America's southwestern border.

Additional measures passed by the House Thursday impose criminal penalties on the construction and financing of border tunnels and provide for expedited removal of criminal aliens. The legislation also "reaffirms the authority" of state and local police to enforce federal immigration laws.

Should the Senate fail to act on border enforcement legislation, Tancredo sees grassroots efforts and citizen activism on the local level as a viable alternative. He would like to see citizen support for strict local laws against illegal immigration and support for pro-enforcement officials at the local level.

Tancredo pointed to a local ordinance in Hazelton, Pa., as an example of the kind of legislation local officials could enact. The ordinance imposes fines and penalties on landlords who rent to illegal aliens and on businesses who hire them.

Similar measures have also passed in other parts of Pennsylvania and in Riverside, N.J.

Tancredo took issue with some conservative strategists - such as Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform - who feel that a push for stringent immigration policies could hurt the Republican Party politically.

"I don't buy it," Tancredo said. "By saying we should be a nation of laws, we will gain votes."

As evidence, Tancredo pointed to Proposition 200 in Arizona, which requires government employees to verify the immigration status of people applying for benefits. Tancredo noted that law was enacted with support from 47 percent of the state's Hispanics.


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; atzlan; borders; crime; danehatesamerica; illegalaliens; illegalimmigration; illegals; immigrantlist; immigration; invasion; meglomania; reconquista; tancredo
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To: Dane

The Senate and the House can enact border security reforms without the President.

Instead of blaming President Bush, how about Congress does their job?


241 posted on 09/24/2006 11:40:16 AM PDT by airborne (Fecal matter is en route to fan! Contact is imminent!)
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To: CottonBall; Howlin
Looks like 2 posters on this thread thus far (239 posts) have posted 26% of the posts. That would be Dane and Howlin. So for those that think there are a lot of posters here that are of a like mind of Dane and Howlin's agenda, this is untrue. They just post over and over. There are a couple of others that have jumped into the liberal pack a little here, making 4 posters posting 31% of the posts. The vast majority here only post a few posts and move on. So there is a huge percentage that support Tancredo and real conservative values, but it may not seem like it because the liberal end of the spectrum is more vociferous. And are apparently allowed to break the rules the rest of us can't - like calling posters names and insulting them.

Whew cottonball, too bad you weren't born 40 years earlier, the above on your resume would have guaranteed you a job at Pravda, with your propaganda expertise.

242 posted on 09/24/2006 12:03:38 PM PDT by Dane ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
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To: Dane

Dick Armey pretty much nailed Tancredo...


243 posted on 09/24/2006 12:04:51 PM PDT by CWOJackson
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To: CWOJackson
Dick Armey pretty much nailed Tancredo...

tancredo also nails himself, but it is fun to watch the almost stalin like in devotion cult of personality tancredoites employ the old propaganda tactics of Pravda.

244 posted on 09/24/2006 12:14:55 PM PDT by Dane ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
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To: Dane

He inherited then from pat buchanan...


245 posted on 09/24/2006 12:16:00 PM PDT by CWOJackson
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To: CottonBall; Howlin; Dane
Oh boy, another newbie attacking Howlin and Dane.

Something tells me you've been here before under different names.

246 posted on 09/24/2006 12:18:13 PM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
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To: CottonBall; COEXERJ145
like calling posters names and insulting them. (See Howlin's posts #152 and 153)

I guess it does insult them when somebody calls them out on the prevarications.

Live with it.

Calling those of us who don't frogmarch with the rest of you liberals just proves who has the agenda here, bub.

247 posted on 09/24/2006 1:12:00 PM PDT by Howlin (Declassify the Joe Wilson "Report!")
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To: Howlin

You only posted that to pump up your posting percentage to this thread!


248 posted on 09/24/2006 4:26:21 PM PDT by CWOJackson
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To: COEXERJ145
Oh boy, another newbie attacking Howlin and Dane.

Something tells me you've been here before under different names.


Not me. Do you think that it takes anyone with a brain longer than a few hours to figure out what's going on here?
249 posted on 09/24/2006 4:47:28 PM PDT by CottonBall
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To: CottonBall
"Do you think that it takes anyone with a brain longer than a few hours to figure out what's going on here?"

Nope. Most people have Tancredo figured out in just a few minutes.

250 posted on 09/24/2006 4:50:10 PM PDT by CWOJackson
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To: COEXERJ145

Are you voting for the Democrat Chet Edwards or the Republican Van Taylor in your local Congressional race?


252 posted on 09/25/2006 10:19:37 AM PDT by arnoldpalmerfan (Tancredo for President 2008)
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