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Just dropped in to make a comment. I read the original article and had all the same reactions: the height of arrogance on their part. 5 years in the country, Americans forced to pay for their children's education (cha-ching! For breaking U.S. law, you get 5*5000=$20000 / kid!), and then they say: we want more. We want your colleges, too. It wasn't that long ago that most Americans didn't go to college.

But I agree with Dick Lamm that this is a personally risky thing for Tancredo. You can be sure that any actual deportation will be accompanied by tearful scenes of mama and sons being dragged away by evil white INS guys, with their two "citizen" children screaming at her side (Why can't we stay! Why can't we stay!).

Tancredo had better be ready to forcefully make a lot of good points:

why does this kid get to go to college while Mr. Boosh is putting real U.S. citizens in the line of fire?
What the hell has this family ever done for the U.S. except Take, Take, Take?
Why should we accord them the benefit of the laws (like in-state resident tuition) when they have broken every other law of the United States that stood between them and what they want?

There was a Governor of Arizona named Howard Pyle who sent the Arizona DPS to arrest all the polygamists in the Utah-Arizona border town of Short Creek, now called Colorado City. A reporter went along. The resulting photographs of old men and their 10 wives being herded into police vans destroyed Pyle's career. Even now, the Governor of Utah, Mike Leavitt, under pressure from women's groups and the image conscious Mormon Church is going after polygamists like Tom Green. It's not going over well. The Salt Lake papers are rightly asking - is this law enforcement or persecution? Whatever your opinion, this is the sort of publicity problem people run. In the case of Tom Green, O'Reilly helped cook his goose in the court of public opinion. If Tancredo cannot get public opinion on his side, he will end up looking like the big bad meanie.

My opinion is that his best bet would be to put the onus on the Apodaca's: turn up the heat enough to where they leave voluntarily, and we get stories about how young Jesus has enrolled in a Mexican university.

Barring that, the Mexican consulate and Reconquista Front scum will use this as an opportunity for agitation and demands for amnesty.

All good points Regulator, good strategic thinking, but I counter and say, push the envelope and see what happens. I know MILLIONS of Americans may surprise you and will be cheering the scenes on, even though the liberal media propaganda apparati will be TELLING THEM TO BE SORRY AND UPSET.

It's getting critical mass and we are running out of options FAST.

You've seen the US map posted here.

The issue is to put the ONUS on THE MEXICAN CONSULATE in DENVER or if necessary the consular section of the Mexican mission to Washington, D.C. Tell them clearly you want them to cooperate with the deportation proceedings and to not obstruct the laws of the host country, and two, if they would be so kind, to counsel the young boy on his academic options in Mexico, introducing him to their many universities, and making that FULLY THEIR BUREAUCRATIC RESPONSIBILITY and TAX/TIME BURDEN not Uncle Sam's, and forcefully go on the offensive and throw off ANY suggestion that the young man is entitled to pursue his education any further in the United States due to his ILLEGAL STATUS.

Tancredo needs to go into this HARD with this kind of approach the Mexican consulate cannot wiggle out of nor the liberal media can spin to make him look like an ogre. We have already lost one good conservative congressman due to the illegal Mexican vote in California; how can we appease any further and lose more Congressmen or the nation for that matter!?

But I agree with Dick Lamm that this is a personally risky thing for Tancredo. You can be sure that any actual deportation will be accompanied by tearful scenes of mama and sons being dragged away by evil white INS guys, with their two "citizen" children screaming at her side (Why can't we stay! Why can't we stay!).

Your point is well taken Regulator. No doubt Tom will take political heat on this, maybe a lot.

Still, it must be noted that if and when measures are taken to end the crisis of Illegal Immigration there will be countless sob stories the leftist media will throw in public's face anyway. I see no way around it.

Tom took a bold step here by taking on political correctness front and center. Somebody has to do it! If his political career in a "safe" district is put in jeopardy over this then I'm afraid there is little hope that illegal immigration will ever end.

And maybe it's time we get a reading on how the public reacts when illegal aliens are rightfully deported. We may be pleasantly surprised in this post 9/11 era.

why does this kid get to go to college while Mr. Boosh is putting real U.S. citizens in the line of fire?

Big Bump on that. I can think of nothing more outrageous.