Thread: Tancredo: It's not racist to want border security

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Tancredo: It's not racist
to want border security
Congressman blasts president for pandering to Mexican government, ignoring Americans

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Posted: May 1, 2005
3:32 p.m. Eastern



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Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo.

The U.S. congressman leading the charge to crack down on illegal immigration is ridiculing the suggestion it's somehow racist to want better border security.

"People who say it's racist to want secure borders are insulting the intelligence of the American people, and such charges betray an empty arsenal of serious arguments," writes Rep. Tom Tancredo in today's Los Angeles Times. "No wonder the immigration reform movement is gaining on every front."

The Colorado Republican is also taking aim at President Bush for turning a "blind eye" tot he dangers of open borders, saying "he appears to be pandering not to Latino voters but to the government of Mexico."
Tancredo, chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, says November's election gave momentum to the reform movement in a way not widely reported in the media but clearly understood by political analysts and lawmakers.

"President Bush increased his share of the Latino vote from about 32 percent to 40 percent in that election – without using the immigration issue."

He says campaign ads "to attract Latino voters were economic empowerment, educational opportunity and traditional moral values. Not a single Bush-Cheney campaign ad mentioned Bush's guest-worker proposal or liberalized immigration rules."


"I predict that the immigration-reform movement is about to score a monumental victory in Congress with the impending passage of 'Real ID,' a measure that will, among other things, set federal standards for driver's license documents and prohibit states from giving driver's licenses to anyone in this country illegally," he added.

Tancredo also points to the "political earthquake" in Arizona, as voters approved Proposition 200, denying state welfare benefits to illegal aliens and strengthens voter registration requirements. Forty-seven percent of Latino voters and 59 percent of Latino Republicans voted for the measure.

"These figures have liberated Republicans to speak candidly about immigration control without fearing the 'race card.'" says Tancredo. Opponents will still try to use it, but it rings hollow. In the words of Lyndon B. Johnson, 'That dog won't hunt.'"

The congressman says President Bush "must have some other reason for continuing to push his ill-conceived proposal for amnesty for illegal aliens and for turning a blind eye to the dangers of open borders."

He points out that according to the Department of Homeland Security, there were more than 70,000 non-Mexicans caught trying to enter the U.S. through Mexico in 2004, coming from Brazil, Syria, Pakistan, Indonesia, Iraq, China and 120 other countries.

Tancredo also notes that last year in Los Angeles County, more than 30,000 criminal aliens who served jail sentences were released back into the community instead of being deported.

"What is the justification for this absurdity? Who will speak for the future victims of these criminals? Who dares call it racist to want these predators and 100,000 other criminal aliens at large across our nation sent home and kept away from our communities by secure borders?"

The four-term Republican closes his opinion piece by saying the Minuteman Project on the Arizona border is only a harbinger of what's to come if political leaders don't take notice of "legitimate citizen outrage over these absurdities."

"Citizens are demanding two simple things – border security and immigration law enforcement," Tancredo says. "When did law enforcement become a radical idea?"

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