Rep. Tancredo: Bush Wants To Merge U.S. With Mexico and Canada Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO), one of the leading voices on immigration for the right, claims President George W. Bush is plotting to merge the U.S. with Mexico and Canada. An excerpt from WorldNetDaily:
Tancredo lashed out at the White Houses lack of action in securing U.S. borders, and said efforts to merge the U.S. with both Mexico and Canada is not a fantasy.
I know this is dramatic or maybe somebody would say overly dramatic but Im telling you, that everything I see leads me to believe that this whole idea of the North American Union, its not something that just is written about by right-wing fringe kooks. It is something in the head of the president of the United States, the president of Mexico, I think the prime minister of Canada buys into it.
You might think the right would immediately repudiate this kind of conspiracy theory. Youd be wrong. The National Reviews Andy McCarthy came to Tancredos defense:
This is not a fringe. Its a wave. Its fine to disagree with Rep. Trancredo; its wrong to treat him like a lunatic when he is anything but.
More McCarthy:
[I]ts not unreasonable for people to look at Bushs immigration policies and worry that he is insufficiently alert to the internationalist pressures (what John Fonte calls transnational progressivism) vigorously challenging the traditional understanding of sovereignty on many fronts.
Foxs Neil Cavuto recently said Tancredo owns the issue of immigration predicted that if he were to run for president, he just might well be president.
Poster Comment:
Of course those at Think Progress believe that Tancredo is a racist..