Posted on 07/05/2007 7:57:29 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
The Des Moines presidential forum [shown on C-Span] drew hundreds of conservative activists. Of the six candidates who spoke, Tancredo received the best reception, coming and going to standing ovations. Tancredo's immigration prescription is simple: First, secure the borders, doing whatever it takes. Build a fence - or two or three - along the borders with Mexico and Canada. Station armed guards to block illegal entry. Then, go after businesses that hire illegal workers, hitting employers with massive fines and, if need be, with criminal charges. Also, bring criminal cases - aiding and abetting - against mayors and city council members who establish 'sanctuary' cities that prevent city employees from cooperating with federal immigration agents. Yes, that would have included Rudy Giuliani back when he was mayor of NYC. Once the jobs dry up, the estimated 12 million people in the country illegally - or 20 million by Tancredo's count - will go home. "Attrition through enforcement," Tancredo called it. "If people cannot get the thing for which they came - a job -they go home."
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Good for Tancredo.
Tom Tancredo and Duncan Hunter cancel each other out, don’t they?
Ever since I read Tancredo’s “In Mortal Danger” I’m a fan.
Good for us. Maybe some of these politicians will envy getting standing O’s and start giving us US citizens what we are demanding.
Demand a border fence! Build it NOW!! Beef up the border patrol and close our borders!
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I’m a Hunter supporter, but Tancredo is a good guy. I would see myself supporting him if Hunter had to drop out for some reason.
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I've been on this rant for quite some time.
It's sad that even the President hasn't figured it out yet. That pesky oath of office thingy is just an annoyance to politicians.
“Tom Tancredo and Duncan Hunter cancel each other out, don’t they?”
I would gladly support either of them for President over the likes of someone like Fred Thompson, who has said “You’re going to have to, in some way, work out a deal where they can have some aspirations of citizenship”. Fred Thompson, 2006
While Hunter is a decent candidate and far better than most of them, there are significant differences between Tancredo and Hunter that make Tancredo the better conservative candidate, IMO.
Campaign Finance, No Child Left Behind, Bush's Prescription Drug program - these are all examples of where Tancredo voted against the GOP on principle and Hunter voted with the GOP. All were Bush-led disasters.
Tancredo also has plans to reduce the scope and size of the federal government that I don't hear Hunter talking about (dissolving Jimmy Carter's federal school board, for instance).
God bless Tancredo!
We need 51 more like him in the Senate, a couple hundred in the Congress and 50 in the governorships...not to forget the WH!!!
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