Posted on 09/19/2002 3:34:04 PM PDT by Sweet_Sunflower29
DENVER (AP) - A congressman who has been demanding tighter immigration controls is defending himself against allegations that illegal immigrants remodeled his basement. Two employees of a contracting company say they and other illegal immigrants from Latin America helped install a home entertainment center and a bedroom in the Littleton home of Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., The Denver Post reported Thursday.
Last month, after the Post wrote about a young illegal immigrant's struggle to pay for college, Tancredo reported the teen and his family to the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
On Thursday, Tancredo said that when the remodeling was done last fall, he never asked about the workers' immigration status.
Even if the workers were in the country illegally, "what is my responsibility at this point in time?" Tancredo said in a telephone interview from Washington. "I go to dinner at restaurants and probably have come into contact with people who are here illegally. I do not ask, of course. It is actually illegal and you can be sued."
The contractor, Creative Drywall Designs, and subcontractor Denver Audio Design said all their employees are in the country legally.
The newspaper said it would not identify the workers because they could get in trouble with INS.
Tancredo said enemies he made in lambasting the INS and in seeking strict enforcement of immigration laws are trying to discredit him.
"The fact is that I am a controversial figure," he said. "I have rankled the feathers of people who are immigration support groups and illegal immigrants themselves, so I am not surprised that somebody might make this accusation to embarrass me."
Tancredo called the INS after reading about honor student Jesus Apodaca and his family, illegal immigrants from Mexico who live in Denver. The congressman said INS officials told him they did not have the resources to try to take the family into custody.
Tancredo has pushed for use of troops to guard the borders.
"It is the government's responsibility to enforce our immigration laws, and if the INS were doing its job, no illegal immigrant would be available to violate our labor laws," Tancredo said in the Post.
This is nothing but a coordinated attack on Tancredo by the Mexican Consul and the Denver Post.
When asked if you have facts...
Yes. I do.
Now you're calling me a liar?
Dishonesty is why Tancredo is null and void, avoid that trait.
I live in L.A.
That's not the case here.
Thanks.
All journalism is suspect to me. While I agree with some speeches I have heard Buchanan make as I said, I get my news from FR, and the few times I can stomach the Dallas Morning News. My husband takes the paper to work the crossword and sometimes I forget and actually read the editorials. I forget sometimes just how 'racist and bigoted' Americans are and I needed to be reminded by that paper.
Sorry PRND21, but you are wrong (although you'll never admit it).
I do have the facts needed to reach the conclusion I reached, and they are not all on FR.
I'm not your personnel investigator, so go find your own facts.
Even if I did post what I found , you would not believe it anyway.
I could post a video of the Mexican Consul and the editor of the Denver Post discussing this attack, and you would call it a fake.
Don't bother replying as I will no longer waste my time arguing with you.
You sure they don't hire day labor at the local shopping mall?
One of the funnier things I see around here is a van picking up a bunch of day laborers...and it has an American Patrol bumper sticker.
I lived in the San Fernando Valley for over 10 years and I saw what I considered ethnic enclaves in areas of Pacoima, San Fernando, Reseda, Van Nuys, Canoga Park, and North Hills. Now, we may disagree on the definition of enclave, or what percentage of a certain nationality or ethnicity must live in an area in order to constitute an enclave, but in my opinion, they do exist in the Los Angeles area and probably in many other areas of the United States too. I think that the labels of Isolationist and Xenophobe can be deservedly shared by many Americans and also by certain groups of illegal aliens.
Absolutely! He's one of the few shining beacons left in a dismal array of liars, cheaters, thieves, and Republic Killers. GO TANCREDO!!!!!!
Too bad the press can "mismanage" his deeds and statements at a whim. The censorship regime of the liberal government-media complex has a tight grip on what people hear and say. I can only hope there are more "free thinkers" than "sheep" in Colorado. The upcoming elections will tell all. From what I've read, Colorado appears to be following the "baaaaahhhhh" of California, Oregon, New York, and many other states falling to the liberal plague.
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