I hired one of the few contractors who used local people. Most have Hispanics, and quite a few were cited for hiring illegals. Despite your sarcasm, the problems here are probably what they were in the Southwest 5 years ago.
Even if every Hispanic in your state was Illegal, this couldn't be true. The numbers just aren't there. You're probably about 15 years behind the curve.
I wish there was some easy way for folks in other parts of the country to get a handle on the scale of what's been going on here for decades. You'd understand some of the intensity on this issue a little better.
Tancredo should have been more careful. Whether one agrees with his stand or not, he made a political mistake. Period.
From the article:
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.
This is a hatchet job on Tancredo of the sort you often decry when they're used to smear President Bush.
The question of the day is: Who planted it, the DNC, RNC, or the AP all on their own?
Sabertooth, if you would read my posts, I SAID that Tancredo did nothing illegal. HOWEVER, he is well aware that there are illegals in many of these businesses, and it was foolish of him to have work done without protecting himself.
That being said, it is also quite possible that this is nothing but a smear and without the actual names of people, it is impossible to prove or disprove. (And you are right..it is a New York Times-style anonymous source hit piece. I imagine from the Rats, although the GOP could possibly have done it. However, if the GOP were behind it, the paper would gleefully report that "Republican sources" had pointed them to the "illegal workers," giving the paper a double hit piece.)