DENVER, COLORADO -- Former Congressman Tom Tancredo will be the keynote speaker at a Tea Party protest rally on March 27 in Sonoita, Arizona, a rural crossroads located about 20 miles from the Arizona-Mexico border. The event is sponsored by the Sonoita Tea Party organization. The trip will be the former congressman's first visit to the border region since President Obama took office. "The Tea Party movement is a grassroots citizen protest against government takeover of health care, catastrophic public debt and a bureaucracy eroding our freedoms. All of these taxpayer burdens are made worse by the costs imposed by 15 to 20 million illegal immigrants," said Tancredo."
"I want to see how much progress has been made -- if any -- since Congress debated and defeated amnesty legislation in 2007," said Tancredo, " and I want to talk to real people who are struggling with these burdens, not DHS bureaucrats."
"DHS Secretary Napolitano says our border security is better than ever. I want to ask the residents of that region is they agree with that assessment."
Tancredo will address the Tea Party rally in Sonoita, Arizona, at 2:00 PM on the afternoon of March 27. The next day he will meet with a dozen local ranchers and will view videos of border crossings filmed by local residents.