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In a speech to the Eagle Forum Collegians on Capitol Hill, U.S. Representative Tom Tancredo spoke about the hot button issue of immigration. Not so long ago, Tancredo was regarded as little more than a noisy pest on Capitol Hill. His colleagues shook their heads at his tireless demands for crackdowns on American employers who hire illegal immigrants and for a 700-mile-long fence along the Mexican border. But in recent months, some of those same Republicans have come to realize that, while Tancredo may be a maverick, he is gaining a large and passionate following. His support for what he...

It seems that Mexican President Vicente Fox is running a disruption operation against us. Nearly every week there seems to be more news about how the Mexican government is messing with the people of the United States. First it's the drug smuggling thing. Illegal drugs enter our country by the ton from Mexico. Obviously the Mexican government knows that. They mouth some words about doing something, but have not. Then there's those millions of illegal aliens squatting in our country. Instead of stopping the flow of illegals across the border, the Mexican government seems to be doing everything possible to...

U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, who has attacked illegal immigration, plans to help raise money for a 5-year-old Mexican boy with leukemia whose parents brought him to the U.S. unlawfully. Tancredo will join Peter Boyles, a talk-radio host with KHOW-AM (630), for an on-air fund-raiser Wednesday morning. Boyles and Tancredo will try to help Oscar Hernandez, who needs a $314,000 bone-marrow transplant to save his life. Tancredo did not return phone calls Friday. His spokeswoman, Lara Kennedy, said Tancredo's position on illegal immigration is separate from his desire to help a sick child. "He acknowledges his sympathy for this child and...

Rep. Tom Tancredo, the nation's most outspoken opponent of the invasion of illegal aliens, is being targeted for defeat - not by the Democrats, but by the GOP establishment. Just last week Tancredo, R-Colo., crushed his Democrat challenger by 37 points. But the moderates and liberals see him as a conservative loose cannon packed with ammo. His "criticisms of President Bush's immigration policy bought him a 40-minute rebuke earlier this year from Bush adviser Karl Rove, who, in the Congressman's own words, warned him 'never to darken the door of the White House again,'" Roll Call reported Monday. "I'll be...