[Tancredo Fan]

"This is an arrogant use of power," said Mario Hernandez, a spokesman for the Mexican consulate in Denver. "This family is looking to improve the lives of their children."

Mario Hernandez should not only go pound sand, but he should be pounding sand in is nasty homeland. Expel the fifth-columnist along with the foreign scofflaw sponges.

[Tancredo Fan]

A "Tancredo is doing a fine job" ping!

[Black Agnes]

They're looking to improve the lives of *their* kids. What about AMERICAN CITIZEN's kids???? How many inner city kids or kids on reservations could go to school if this family hadn't been here? This woman has been arrogantly abusing our SYSTEM for YEARS. (bet they have a big Mexican flag out front!) Send them all back!!!

[JustAnAmerican]

"Comfort said INS normally focuses on immigrants who have committed crimes or pose a national security threat.

What part of Illegal do these idiots not associate with being a criminal act?

[Nephi]

Viva Tancredo!

[AzJP]

I wonder if it ever occured to Tancredo (and others) to muscle INS to get this guy legal?

kj

[Travis McGee]

If the INS was run like the BATF, every illegal alien in America would be deported or shot in one month.

If the BATF was run like the INS, you could fire howitzers from your backyard day and night.

(I just want a list of federal laws that "really count" and will be enforced, and a list of federal laws that I can ignore.)

[Sabertooth]

"I wish I had him here, face to face. I'd ask him, 'Do I seem like a bad person? Does my son seem like a bad person?'" said Apodaca's mother, Maria Madrid. "All I've ever wanted is that my son fulfills his dream" of going to college.

Maria Madrid is a rotten person, who should consider the consequences of her actions as she returns to Mexico with her family to seek financial aid to attend a school in their own country.

[Bikers4Bush]

No, arrogant is giving a newspaper interview and laying all of your lawbreaking antics out there for all to read and thinking nobody will come after you.

Kick the leeches out.

[Centurion2000]

A congressman was seeking deportation of a Mexican family after he read an article about how one son couldn't afford college because federal law bans financial aid for illegal immigrants.

Stick this guy in the Senate.

[mad puppy]

If this kid is such a super kid, then I would love to have him become a legal American citizen. Do what it takes to become legal and you would be as welcome hear as anyone. Don't whine and snivel about wanting to improve your life, about having never done anything wrong when you are in the country illegaly! You got your free high school education, which I helped pay for, now either do the right thing, or leave! Nothiing personal, but the law stands!

[Texas_Jarhead]

You go Mr. Tancredo!

At least someone is trying to do something about these 'undetained felons'.

[dennisw]

These illegal alien Mexi-pests were very arrogant to go public and use their real names. They deserve to be deported.

I see how one party offered to help pay some of the tuition. Maybe that's why their used their real names. Tom Tancredo is one the few congress critters who gives a damn!

[WRhine]

Tom Tancredo is a smart guy. He knows that by reporting illegal aliens to the INS based on their media sob stories it will get these criminals to think twice about using the media as a tool to circumvent our immigration laws.

[3AngelaD]

That is rich. An official of the Mexican government characterizing Tancredo's actions an "arrogant use of power." Must not have spent much time in Mexico lately.

What I think arrogant is for Mexican consular officials to publicly criticize elected in officials and agencies in this country. Way out of line, inappropriate, and UNDIPLOMATIC. This Mexican is sitting on American soil saying, in essence, Americans have no right to enforce their own laws.

That said, Tancredo was really badly advised to have made such a call public. I can't argue with him calling the INS and saying, "Hey, might be a good idea for you to enforce the law." But the way he went about it merely makes himself look mean. Ten points for intentions; 1 point for execution.

Meanwhile, the larger message we are sending out is: come into our country illegally, make no bones about it, then whine in the major media when your kid can't get a free, all-bills-paid college education at taxpayer expense. And then expect no consequences whatsoever. Let's see, try going to Mexico, illegally and then demanding Mexican taxpayers provide you with a free elementary, secondary and college education, and see what happens.

[End The Hypocrisy]

Mexico gives no free college education to Americans who are illegally in Mexico. And I've heard numerous complaints from Americans and Mexicans both about how the poorly paid Mexican college professors down there are just as eager to try and SUBTLY extract bribes as their university administration bosses are to unjustly enrich themselves at students', taxpayers' and the overall university's expense. Meanwhile, the USA hosts around 20 million Mexicans whereas Mexico hosts maybe 50,000 of us "gringos". And when we're robbed or attacked down there, the cops only pay temporary attention (out of fear that they're being tape-recorded) but they promptly lose interest once they realize nobody powerful is observing.

[FITZ]

They should make them pay back what they owe the taxpayers for all the free education he got. It's their greed that got them caught, they weren't content with what they already took, they wanted more taxpayer dollars.

[Just another Joe]

Comfort said INS normally focuses on immigrants who have committed crimes or pose a national security threat.

And THAT'S the problem.
If you want to immigrate to the US go through the channels.
Otherwise, if you get caught you get deported.

[SupplySider]

"All I've ever wanted is that my son fulfills his dream" of going to college."

All I've ever wanted is that my son fulfill his dream ahead of other, law-abiding sons who are waiting patiently to legally immigrate. I also wanted to brag about my family's law breaking to a newspaper.

[american spirit]

Here in Texas students here illegally get IN-STATE tuition rates at colleges while TAXPAYING Americans have to pay OUT-OF-STATE rate rates. I'm sure this warms the hearts of parents in Okla., La., and N.Mex., who would just love to send their kids to U of Texas law school but can't afford the rates.

[hoosierskypilot]

"All I've ever wanted is that my son fulfills his dream" of going to college...."

Yea, well, lots of Americans have that same dream. Only, you know what? They pay the taxes that support our government schools. Therefore, they should have first crack at whether or not their kids go to school, before somebody who does not make a similar contribution.

But, you know what else? I can't begin to tell you how many times I've been shut out of taking a class because of large numbers of aliens, most of whom, I suspect, are the offspring of illegals.

This is what most people don't know, viz., there are only so many spots in a classroom. And when those spots are filled, that's it.

So, excuse me if I don't shed a tear about a criminal who whines about not getting the same rights as Americans.