Thread: In Mortal Danger" by Tom Tancredo

"In Mortal Danger" by Tom Tancredo
August 06, 2007 01:00 PM EST
by David Losey
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/27091.html#

One of the criteria that separates the average book from a good or excellent one is how many times does the author make the reader say, "I didn't know that!" Tom Tancredo, in his book, In Mortal Danger, makes the reader say that very thing on more than one occasion. By way of example,

!. Following the events of 9/11/01, the National Education Association (the country's largest union) distributed some "suggestions" to teachers and parents instructing them on how to address the attack on the World Trade Center. Two of the suggestion were, do not hate the attackers and consider that we may have brought the attacks on ourselves.

2. The Denver Public Library system has decided to make several libraries into bilingual libraries. They wiil discard 100s of English language books and replace them with Spanish language books. As a part of this effort employees are being told that they will not be promoted if they are not fluent in Spanish.

3. Residents of Houston, TX are moving out of the city because it is being slowly transformed from a uniquely American city into a multicultural wasteland where U.S. citizens are giving way to a rush of illegal aliens.

4. INS employees' job-performance ratings (readay raises) and cash bonuses are, in part, based upon the numbers of naturalization approvals they process.

5. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service doesn't complete full background investigations on all employees.

6.There is a group of thugs/criminals in Mexico, called the Madrinas, who take their orders from Mexican officials but have no official position in the government. They provide plausible deniablity for the government in cases of corruption and criminal activity. They receive no salary. Their only source of income is via bribes that they extort from the people.

These are a few examples that make this book well worth reading.

In a letter to GOP House leadership (that follows), Mr. Tancredo specifically spells out solutions to our immigration problems.

... In December 2005, as chairman of the Immigration
Reform Caucus, I sent a letter to House majority leader Roy Blunt and
Rules Committee chairman David Dreier sounding the alarm to fix our
broken immigration system. I wrote:

Our border crisis is multifaceted-it has created problems on many
policy fronts that one would not think pertain to immigration. For
each problem Members will want to propose a solution, and as a
courtesy to you, I have listed some of these proposals from my colleagues
on the House Immigration Reform Caucus below:

FIXING OUR BROKEN BORDERS

Begin Building a Border Security Fence

1. Put troops on the border
2. End "catch and release"
3. Mandate passport usage for everyone traveling internationally
4. Make volunteer border patrol a sanctioned federal activity
5. Suspend visa waiver program

Enforcing the Law Throughout the Country

1. Require a federal response when local law enforcement asks to have illegal aliens arrested
2. Restrict federal money that goes to local governments that have illegal alien sanctuary policies
3. Close the loophole that allows religious organizations and their agents to be immune from illegal- alien-harboring laws
4. Make DUI a deportable offense
5. Increase penalties for the smuggling of illegal aliens
6. Increase penalties for terrorists who are illegal aliens
7. Increase penalties for gang members who are illegal aliens
8. Draft minimum standards for birth certificates and birth/death registries
9. Make unlawful presence in the United States a felony

Stopping Businesses from Hiring Illegals

1. Make employment verification mandatory
2. Eliminate the business tax write-off for illegal workers
3. Increase the penalty for employers who hire illegal aliens
4. Make businesses that hire illegal aliens ineligible for future guest workers

Reducing the Incentive to Come illegally

1. Disallow all federal funding for states that offer in-state tuition to illegal aliens
2. Disallow the matricula consular card as a legal form of identification
3. Reform the use of individual taxpayer identification numbers
4. Eliminate Social Security totalization for illegal aliens

Disentangling Foreign Policy from Immigration

1. Block any immigration provisions from trade bills
2. Block visas to countries that refuse to take their nationals back
3. Reduce the availability of yearly legal visas per country by the number of illegal aliens from such country

Restoring the Meaning of Citizenship

1. End birthright citizenship for illegal aliens
2. Eliminate dual citizenship
3. Make English the official language
4. Write the oath of citizenship into law
5. Strengthen safeguards against voter fraud

Reforming Legal Immigration

1. Eliminate the visa lottery
2. Eliminate chain migration
3. Eliminate H-IB visas [temporary work permits]
4. Eliminate unskilled worker green cards
5. Create a Department of Immigration or a cabinet-level agency

This list is extensive and well thought-out. It reveals the author's depth of understanding of this vital issue. Those that consider immigration one of the top two or three issues currently facing our nation will want to give strong consideration to Rep. Tancredo as the GOP nominee for President in 2008.

You go Tom....this is EXACTLY what American citizens want!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :P

If I check this book out at my public library do you think I will be placed on a watch list?



Head 'em up,move 'em out Rawhide!

I JUST BOUGHT THIS BOOK. ON AMAZON.COM. I HAVE JUST STARTED IT, BUT SO FAR IT IS GREAT. GO TOM!!!!!

It's a great book. In the beginning, he talks about how Karl Rove told him not to darken the steps of the white house.

Read the book months ago.
Needless to say, it's a great read.

Originally Posted by Rawhide

If I check this book out at my public library do you think I will be placed on a watch list?



Head 'em up,move 'em out Rawhide!

This is what my husband and I say. Between all the Pat Buchanan, Michelle Malkin and Tom Tancredo books we have purchased, we are in some database somewhere. The best is the looks you get from the workers at Borders, etc.

The best is the looks you get from the workers at Borders, etc.

...just give them compliments on their tattos, piercings and trendy haircut...and they'll be your friend forever.

Thats a great list! Good Tom hoping you get in '08!

Originally Posted by Nicole

Originally Posted by Rawhide

If I check this book out at my public library do you think I will be placed on a watch list?



Head 'em up,move 'em out Rawhide!

This is what my husband and I say. Between all the Pat Buchanan, Michelle Malkin and Tom Tancredo books we have purchased, we are in some database somewhere. The best is the looks you get from the workers at Borders, etc.

well i bet we're in the same database, at least we're in good company.

'in mortal danger' is an excellent read. i passed my copy around to family and friends. i even had my teen daughter read it.