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Immigration See other Immigration Articles Title: Tancredo on Illegal Aliens: They Are 'A Scourge That Threatens The Very Future of Our Nation' If GOP Presidential Candidates Don't Put Problem a Top Agenda in 2008, He'll Run Himself, Just to Force Front Runners to Talk About it NEW YORK, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Republican congressman Tom Tancredo has become the loudest, angriest voice against the estimated 11 million illegal aliens now living in the United States. They are "a scourge that threatens the very future of our nation," he says. He laments "the cult of muliticulturalism," and worries about America's becoming a "Tower of Babel." If Republican presidential candidates don't put the problem atop the agenda in 2008, he says he'll run himself, just to force the front runners to talk about it, reports White House Correspondent Holly Bailey in the current issue of Newsweek. Not that he thinks he'd win the White House. He declares himself "too fat, too short and too bald" to be president. If the Republicans lose the election because he's too tough on the issue, he says, "So be it." Tancredo says that all he wants is to see the law enforced. "I don't like it when people call me a racist or xenophobe," he says. "In my heart, I know that I'm not." A 60-year-old grandson of an Italian immigrant, Tancredo grew up in a working-class family. He ran for Congress on a whim in 1998, and won by pushing immigration reform. He says he became passionate about the issue back in the 1970s, when he was a Denver junior-high-school teacher. At the time, Colorado had just passed a bilingual-education bill. He says students with Latino-sounding names were put into Spanish-language classes, even if they spoke English only. "It was ridiculous, and a total waste of time and money," he says in the April 3 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, March 27). Tancredo has remained unapologetic about his views. In 2002, The Denver Post ran a human-interest story about a high-school honors student who couldn't get college financial aid because he was in the United States illegally. Tancredo tried to have the boy and his family deported. (He was unsuccessful.) (Read article at http://www.Newsweek.com. Click "Pressroom" for news releases.) Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Brian S (#0)
Tancredo is a political lightweight and Israel-firster. He gets big media coverage because of his popular stand on illegal immigration. Well, as long as Republicrats run Congress, the flood of illegal immigration will continue because the NWO gang love cheap labor and hate national borders. These creeps know times are ripe for a third-party movement. I wouldn't be surprised if Tancredo steps forward as their Trojan Horse. Does anyone remember what Pat Buchanan did to the Reform Party?
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