http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/tancredo/ en-us Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:20:08 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090702/posts In a letter today, Tancredo asked his Congressional colleagues to oppose any package that lacks such safeguards. A copy of the letter is below: # # # # Dear Colleague, In the midst of the turmoil in our financial markets, we should take pause to reflect on the lessons we have learned in the past few years. With the benefits of that wisdom, we can include the prudent provisions that will close loopholes in any potential “bailout” legislation. One such suggestion is to incorporate safeguards to verify the legal residency and identity of potential homebuyers to ensure that illegal aliens... http://tancredo.house.gov/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090702/posts#comment Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:20:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089838/posts ( WASHINGTON, DC ) – U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) introduced legislation today that would effectively move the United Nations headquarters out of the United States. The legislation is being introduced amid incessant anti-American and anti-Jewish political grandstanding from the podium of the General Assembly. “The U.N. has coddled brutal dictators, anti-Semites, state sponsors of terrorism, and nuclear proliferators – while excluding democratic countries from membership and turning a blind eye to humanitarian tragedies and gross violations of human rights around the globe,” Tancredo said. “The U.N.’s continued presence in the United States is an embarrassment to our nation, and... http://tancredo.house.gov/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089838/posts#comment Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:29:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089427/posts Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., introduced a bill to the House of Representatives that seeks to prevent Islamic law from gaining a foothold in the U.S. legal system, as it has in other countries. Tancredo introduced HR 6975, the Jihad Prevention Act, last week. If made into law, the bill would allow American authorities to prevent advocates of Islamic law, or Shariah, from entering the country, revoke the visa of any foreigners that champion it and revoke naturalization for citizens that seek to implement it in the U.S. The radical form of Shariah includes several statutes objectionable to Western minds, including... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089427/posts#comment Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:12:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089010/posts Congressman Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., introduced a bill to the House of Representatives that seeks to prevent Islam's radical Shariahlaw from gaining a foothold in the U.S. legal system, as it has in other countries. Tancredo introduced HR 6975, the Jihad Prevention Act, last week. If made into law, the bill would allow American authorities to prevent advocates of Shariah law from entering the country, revoke the visa of any foreigners that did champion Shariah law and revoke naturalization for citizens that seek to implement Shariah law in the U.S. The radical form of Islam's Shariah religious law includes several statutes... World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089010/posts#comment Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:13:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2088861/posts U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) introduced legislation today that would effectively move the United Nations headquarters out of the United States. The legislation is being introduced amid incessant anti-American and anti-Jewish political grandstanding from the podium of the General Assembly. “The U.N. has coddled brutal dictators, anti-Semites, state sponsors of terrorism, and nuclear proliferators – while excluding democratic countries from membership and turning a blind eye to humanitarian tragedies and gross violations of human rights around the globe,” Tancredo said. “The U.N.’s continued presence in the United States is an embarrassment to our nation, and the time has come for... Tancredo website http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2088861/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:04:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086383/posts ( WASHINGTON, DC ) – Amid disturbing revelations that the verdicts of Islamic Sharia courts are now legally binding in civil cases in the United Kingdom, U.S. Representative Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) moved quickly today to introduce legislation designed to protect the United States from a similar fate. According to recent news reports, a new network of Sharia courts in a half-dozen major cities in the U.K. have been empowered under British law to adjudicate a wide variety of legal cases ranging from divorces and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence. “This is a case where truth is truly stranger... House.gov http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086383/posts#comment Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:31:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070603/posts What's good for golf, should be good for U.S. The LPGA Tour has announced that beginning in 2009 all tour players must speak English. Veteran players will have two years to pass an oral exam but new players must pass the oral exam to join the tour. There are currently 121 international players from 26 countries on the LPGA Tour. Tour players who can't pass the oral exam will be suspended. Fortunately for the LPGA, it is a private organization and can set its own rules. The new English-language requirement makes perfect sense for an enterprise like professional golf that... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070603/posts#comment Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:46:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067991/posts Remember the hot immigration debate? The topic won't be headlining either presidential convention this year — and the border security issue barely drew a crowd Monday to a daylong anti-illegal immigration rally in Denver aimed at keeping immigration before politicians this fall. A rally by the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps featuring Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr drew just a few dozen people... AP/Vail Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067991/posts#comment Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:40:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066224/posts MASSIVE Anti-Illegal Immigration Rally at the Democrat Convention! August 25th! We've got some BIG NEWS for you -- the all-star lineup of speakers at the Rally Against Illegal Immigration just got even BETTER! We've just confirmed that Ambassador Alan Keyes, Congressman Bob Barr, and Reverend Chuck Baldwin -- all of them running for U.S. President -- PLUS anti-amnesty hero Rep. Tom Tancredo, will ALL be speaking at the day-long rally, right near the Democratic National Convention! You DO NOT want to miss this event!!! RightMarch.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066224/posts#comment Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:20:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053764/posts California is going bankrupt over taxpayer dollars funneled to illegal aliens. "Dear Governor: According to many news reports and statements from your office, California is facing an unprecedented budget crisis. The available data suggests California could save several billion dollars by reducing the amount spent providing services to illegal aliens. A 2007 study estimated that California spends over $10 billion on services to illegal aliens and their children. Much of this expenditure is for K-12 education and emergency health care. But some of it is not mandated by federal law and can be eliminated. In your FY2009 budget message, you... Congressional Website http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053764/posts#comment Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:06:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059867/posts Senator Obama went to Berlin and told a crowd of 200,000 Europeans that he was speaking to them not as a candidate for President of the United States, but as “a fellow citizen of the world.” He then proceeded to insult the memories of any German over age 30 and the intelligence of every American who remembers what the Berlin Wall was all about. In Berlin, Obama credited the “people of the world” for bringing down the Berlin Wall. That will be surprising news to the people of Mexico, Switzerland and dozens of other nations who not only sat out... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059867/posts#comment Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:58:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052120/posts California going bankrupt over taxpayer dollars funneled to illegal aliens WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) today sent a letter to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) asking him to look into the vast amounts of money spent on services for illegal aliens in California, despite the serious budget concerns the state is facing. A copy of the letter is below: Dear Governor: According to many news reports and statements from your office, the State of California is facing an unprecedented budget crisis. The available data suggests that California could save several billion dollars by reducing the amounts spent providing... BorderfireReport http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052120/posts#comment Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:01:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046241/posts Mexican law enforcement officials are walking into U.S. ports of entry in increasing numbers to seek political asylum, and the flow may soon become a flood as Mexico's battle with the drug cartels intensifies. Our first instinct is to welcome them, but there is more at stake than humanitarian sentiments. The problem is that if our immigration laws are stretched to grant asylum to law enforcement personnel on the grounds that their own government cannot protect them, any Mexican threatened by these violent criminal gangs can claim the same right of asylum. U.S. immigration law does not easily accommodate these... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046241/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:10:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038429/posts But just months later, with Washington sweltering in humidity, the hawkish immigration reformer, who wants to deport the nation's 12 million illegal immigrants, has declared his support for McCain. "I expect to be supporting him in November," Tancredo told TIME last week. "But certainly it is not set in stone." But in public comments, McCain often delivered a somewhat mixed message of his own. He continued to favor all the parts of his comprehensive plan — border security, increased employer sanctions for illegal hiring and a path to citizenship for the undocumented — but he mostly refrained from using the... Time Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038429/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:16:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036057/posts Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado drew attention early in the Republican primaries as a champion of securing our nation's borders against illegal crossing and fighting against amnesty for illegal immigrants. Now, in an open letter to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, Tancredo is questioning McCain's role in a private meeting with Hispanic leaders in Chicago last week, and is challenging the candidate to stand firm on border security, regardless of the audience he's addressing. The finger-in-your-chest tone of the letter may have subtly accused McCain of backpedaling on border security pledges in Chicago, where it was reported McCain... WorldNetDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036057/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:25:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029171/posts Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., has reluctantly come to the conclusion that he will have to vote for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., whose immigration reform bill Tancredo blasted as amnesty. "Sometimes I say to myself, 'Can I really do this?'" Tancredo said of voting for McCain, according to the Rocky Mountain News. "And then you listen to Obama or Hillary and say, 'Yeah, I have to.'" At a debate last October Tancredo sounded less sure of such an idea. "You know, I've said I don't know how many times, that I am absolutely tired and sick and tired of being forced... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029171/posts#comment Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:41:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023613/posts Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado donned his bulletproof vest last year and hit the campaign trail expressly to get his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination - and the voters - to make illegal immigration a real, rather than rhetorical, priority. And he doesn't trust Democratic Sens. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton or even presumptive Republican nominee John McCain to do the right thing on immigration ..... "Nobody's going to enter the White House in January of '09 who is committed to securing the border and ending the disaster of illegal immigration," said Tancredo, who wears the vest when he feels... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023613/posts#comment Fri, 30 May 2008 17:42:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020139/posts Although our campaign ended, the fight to secure our borders and preserve our national identity has not. Far from it! Last year "We the people" taught the elites a lesson when we killed the Bush-McCain-Kennedy bill, and the other side hasn't gained any ground in Congress since then! But in November we'll elect a new Congress and President. We must be ready to stop the new effort by the open-borders lobby to jam amnesty for illegals down our throats. And let's face it: the major presidential candidates have shown plenty of willingness to respond to pressure of the Hispanic and... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020139/posts#comment Fri, 23 May 2008 10:29:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019717/posts OUR OPINION: U.S. MUST SUPPORT EFFORT TO DEFEAT NARCOTICS CRIMINALS The outpouring of drug-related violence in Mexico over the last few months has made it indisputably clear that President Felipe Calderón's government is engaged in a fight to the death against the powerful criminal gangs that run the cross-border drug trade. For Mexico, the stakes are all too clear: Either it prevails or the country becomes one big sanctuary for druglords. With Mexico reaching out to the United States for help and the Bush administration eager to comply, Congress must make assistance to Mexico an urgent priority. Last week, the... Miami Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019717/posts#comment Thu, 22 May 2008 15:30:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2017782/posts While Newt Gingrich is correct in warning that Republicans in Congress face formidable odds in November, his proposed nine-point "action plan" does not measure up as a solution to the crisis. Some of Newt's assumptions are undeniably sound, such as the folly of hitching congressional campaigns to McCain’s non-existent coattails. And it is true that the Republican Party's crisis is the result of "catastrophic collapse of trust in Republicans." What are missing from Newt's plan are policy measures that match his apocalyptic rhetoric. Of Newt's nine proposals, only a few attack major problems. Yes, declaring English our official language would... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2017782/posts#comment Sun, 18 May 2008 21:32:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015971/posts Republican congressman Tom Tancredo has fired off a wisecracking press release saying he wants to be a professor of conservative politics at the University of Colorado -- a school often criticized by conservatives as being too liberal. The outspoken opponent of illegal immigration is suggesting classes in "English Only 101" and "American Assimilation." He's also proposing a 20-foot-high fence around the border of the university's Boulder campus. Tancredo spokesman T.Q. Houlton said Wednesday Tancredo doesn't really want a job at CU when he retires from Congress in January. He's just poking fun at reports that CU wants to establish a... CBS4Denver.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015971/posts#comment Wed, 14 May 2008 20:23:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015841/posts Give retiring U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo a job at The Onion! The Littleton Republican got such a chuckle out of a Rocky story this morning about the University of Colorado's $9 million plan to bring high-profile political conservatives to teach on the left-leaning Boulder campus that he jokingly threw his hat in the ring. "I should be the clear favorite for the job," Tancredo said — tongue firmly in cheek — in a news release announcing he'd sent in his application. "Who doesn't want a slightly used Congressman, with a 98% lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union, educating their... Rocky Mountain News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015841/posts#comment Wed, 14 May 2008 16:04:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010408/posts Congressman, Texans clash over border McALLEN, Texas (AP) - South Texas officials who oppose a border fence are stepping up their criticism of a Colorado congressman who favors the divider. The mayors of Brownsville and Eagle Pass said Friday that U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo falsely suggested that they believe there is no border between the two countries. In a letter Friday, Brownsville Mayor Pat Ahumada and Eagle Pass Mayor Chad Foster, who is also chairman of the Texas Border Coalition, called the suggestion "ridiculously juvenile," and noted that the Rio Grande is a clear border between the United States and... The Brownsville Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010408/posts#comment Fri, 2 May 2008 20:47:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2009324/posts Congressman Tancredo (R-Colorado) joined Congressman Ortiz in Brownsville on Tuesday for a joint committee meeting regarding the proposed fence building to attempt to curb illegal immigration (amongst other things) in the area. Not surprisingly, Tancredo was met with a rather cold reception with his known favoritism towards building the fence. “It really isn’t a border to most of us who live down here” said Betty Perez local activist. No need to guess which side she’s advocating. Now, on the not so stereo-typical side, you’ve got me to give you some insight into uber minority: the endangered Republican Female Mexican American... Right Up Front http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2009324/posts#comment Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:39:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008316/posts BROWNSVILLE, Texas — One of Congress' strongest border fence proponents received a hostile reception Monday in the city that has become the epicenter of fence opposition. Boos and hisses emanated from the audience for a congressional field hearing when Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado dismissed residents' concerns that the effort to build 670 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border by year's end would damage the environment and destroy a centuries-old bond between residents on both sides of the Rio Grande. Late in the five-hour hearing, Tancredo returned to a comment made earlier by panelist Betty Perez, a... Houston Chronicle/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008316/posts#comment Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:08:58 GMT