Thread: Tancredo to Travel to IA, UT, CA, AZ and NH Also ON TV Today

I received an e-mail from Will Adams and Tom will be visting a few States and also will be on TV today, visit his website and subscribe to the newsletter:

http://www.house.gov/tancredo/

If you would like to contact Congressman Tancredo, please do so through our website at http://www.house.gov/tancredo/contact_tom.htm

NOTE: Congressman Tancredo will appear TODAY live at 3 PM Mountain Time on FOXNews' Big Story w/ John Gibson to discuss illegal immigration.



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**MEDIA ADVISORY**



Tancredo to Travel to Iowa, Utah, California, Arizona and New Hampshire


WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) will be traveling across the country to speak and to attend rallies over the next month.



All events listed below are open to the press. Please notify Congressman Tancredo's press office if you plan to attend any of the events. The list is provided for planning purposes only, and some events may be added, changed or cancelled. Press credentials will be checked at all events.



August 22

10:30-11:15 AM CDT "What Can Be Done About Border Security" panel

Des Moines Marriott, 700 Grand Ave, Des Moines, IA

2-3 PM CDT Speech to Law Enforcement Personnel

Cass County Courthouse

5:30-9 PM CDT Rally for Immigration Reform

Bayliss Park, 530 1st Ave, Council Bluffs, IA



August 24

7-8:30 PM MDT Town hall meeting on illegal immigration

Lakeridge Junior High, 951 South 400 West, Orem, Ut



August 25

11-11:30 AM MDT Awards ceremony for companies that do not hire illegal workers

12-1:30 PM MDT Luncheon on immigration reform

Holiday Inn, 850 S. Bluff Street, St. George, UT

7-8 PM MDT Public meeting on immigration reform

Salt Lake Community College Auditorium

4600 South Redwood Road, Salt Lake City, UT





August 26

12-1:30 PM PDT Keynote speech at Center for the Study of Popular Culture conference

Beverly Wilshire Hotel, 9500 Wilshire Drive, Los Angeles, CA



September 3

5-9 PM MST Dinner speech for the Arizona Republican Assembly

Chaparral Suites, 5001 North Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, AZ



September 17

4:30-9 PM CDT Polk County Republicans Annual GOP Picnic

Jalapeno Pete's, Iowa State Fairgrounds, Des Moines, Iowa



September 25

5-9 PM EDT New Hampshire Center for Constitutional Studies Dinner

Manchester, NH



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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Will Adams

August 16, 2005
202.226.6997







Tancredo Praises Governors' Declarations of Emergency

Congressman Tells Administration to Get Serious About Border Security or Be Outflanked by Dems


WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) praised Governor Bill Richardson and Governor Janet Napolitano for declaring states of emergency along the New Mexico and Arizona border with Mexico. Richardson's executive order cleared $1.75 million for border counties, and Napolitano's order earmarks $1.5 million for border security.



Napolitano faulted the federal government for failing to secure the border, while Richardson noted that, "There needs to be a comprehensive strategy that involves local governments."



"For the past seven years in Congress, I have been talking to anyone who would listen about our nation's border crisis. Each year I have proposed punitive action against localities that have illegal alien sanctuary policies. It's strange that elected Democrats are listening more closely than many elected Republicans. The Bush Administration and GOP leadership must get serious about border security or we will be outflanked by Democrats," said Tancredo.



Tancredo continued, "I know Karl Rove and company aren't accustomed to taking political pointers from me. But they better hear this warning loud and clear, otherwise they'll be hearing it from the voters in '06 and '08."



"I call on Governors Schwarzenegger and Perry to follow the lead and declare states of emergency along the rest of our border with Mexico," said Tancredo. "The Minutemen saw our federal government losing control of the border and said 'enough is enough'. After local and state governments follow suit I hope our federal government will wake up."



Tancredo has backed up his rhetoric by introducing the only comprehensive border security and illegal immigration bill that offers no amnesty. The REAL GUEST Act of 2005, H.R. 3333, increases border personnel by 10,000, uses military technology to secure our borders, and cracks down on employers who hire illegal aliens.



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Federal Officials Meet in Atlantic (Atlantic, Iowa News-Telegraph)



By Laura Bacon, NT Staff Writer

Congressman Tom Tancredo (R- CO), and David J. Ehler, District Director of Congressman Steve King's office visited the Cass County Courthouse on Monday afternoon to talk with officials from local law enforcement about issues related to immigration.

The stop was part of King's "Secure America's Future" tour which kicked off Monday. The tour was described as "a series of rallies and policy forums to secure America's future by strengthening immigration laws."

On hand were Sheriff Bill Sage and Deputy Darby McLaren of the Cass County Sheriff's Office, Cass County Attorney Dan Feistner and Dennis Rudolph of the Fusion Center in Atlantic. Tancredo, a member of the Secure America's Future tour and the chairman of the Immigration Reform Caucus in the House of Representatives said he wanted to know what issues and special problems area law enforcement faced.

Sage noted that with I-80 cutting across Iowa and Cass County, officers often find themselves stopping vehicles filled with illegal aliens.

He said deputies were frustrated, and "don't know what to do with them if they stop them," as INS officials were slow or reluctant to come get the illegal aliens, if they were held.

In other cases, while a man and woman stopped or investigated might be illegal aliens, their child, born in the US was an American citizen, making deporting the parents more difficult question.

That kind of situation was common, and complicated matters McLaren and Rudolph agreed.

"Are we going to start separating families?" Rudolph asked.

Tancredo questioned what US law "protected (the illegal) from being deported, just because he has a child?" and added, "We're not making the choice to separate them, they are making that choice."

But he agreed, the issue was very frustrating.

Sage also felt that penalties on employers who hired illegal aliens should be raised.

"I think it should be, if you elect to hire illegals, you pay the price," he said, suggesting that the fines currently were low enough that employers might pay them and continue doing business using illegal labor. If fines were raised, "so it hurts (the employer)" Sage said, he thought they might think twice.

Tancredo said the problem was complicated by big employers who were also big contributors to political parties.

"They provide the biggest block" Tancredo said, to toughening immigration laws.

He is sponsoring a bill that would require employers to use a system called Easy Check, which verifies social security numbers. "My bill makes it mandatory for all employees," he said, adding that Iowa should follow suit and require such a bill.

Big employers often tell politicians that they have to have the labor, even if it is illegal, as they can't find anyone else to do the job.

The part they aren't saying, Tancredo said, "is they can't find anyone to do the job for what they are willing to pay."

Using cheaper labor doesn't make the product any cheaper, "but their bottom line looks better because of the lower wages," he said.

And it leaves Americans paying the bills--including bills for incarceration, education and medical treatment.

Other local concerns included making sure law enforcement was paid when they had to house or transport illegal aliens other agencies.

After the meeting, Tancredo and Ehler planned to continue on to Council Bluffs, where a rally and hog roast was being held at Bayliss Park in Council Bluffs that evening. The public was invited to attend the rally and hog roast, and listen to a variety of speakers.



Deroy Murdock:
Concerns over illegal aliens increase dramatically

TWO DEMOCRATIC governors, New Mexico's Bill Richardson and Arizona's Janet Napolitano, have sounded the Klaxons over the bedlam on America's border with Mexico.

On Aug. 12, Richardson (who happens to be of Mexican ancestry) declared a state of emergency in four of his state's border counties. Three days later, Napolitano followed, placing four of Arizona's frontier counties in emergency status.

Beyond the usual complaints about illegal aliens straining public services, Richardson cited "kidnapping, murder, destruction of property and the death of livestock" among the rationales for his crisis proclamation. Napolitano denounced "violent gangs, coyotes and other dangerous criminals."

While those reasons are disturbing enough, Americans should worry even more about the growing numbers of foreigners breaking into the United States from nations awash in Islamic extremism.

Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., points to border patrol documents that show how America's southern and northern borders routinely are traversed by predominantly Muslim Middle Easterners and North Africans.

Between Oct. 1, 2002 and June 30, 2003, Department of Homeland Security figures show 4,226 "special interest aliens" (SIAs) were apprehended on America's Mexican and Canadian borders. By June 30, 2004, that number had swelled 42.5 percent to 6,022 SIAs from "countries of interest" such as those the State Department considers sponsors of terrorism (Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, Syria) and others where militant Islam simmers (Afghanistan, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and Yemen).

Full fiscal-year 2004 data record the captures of seven Saudis, 10 Syrians, 18 Lebanese, 19 Iranians, 25 Egyptians, 28 Jordanians, and 164 Pakistanis, among others. If these figures seem small, recall the havoc 19 Middle Easterners unleashed on Sept. 11.

"One must take into account that even the most conservative estimates of the number of folks getting by the border patrol are two or three times the number caught," Tancredo said. If so, at least 18,000 SIAs entered America just in the first nine months of 2004.

Perhaps these illegal aliens come here for what most immigrants want: freedom, prosperity and better lives. But some who violate our borders do so to destroy those things.

"Recent information from ongoing investigations, detentions, and emerging threat streams strongly suggests that al-Qaida has considered using the Southwest border to infiltrate the United States," former Homeland Security Deputy Secretary James Loy told the Senate Intelligence Committee last February. "Several al-Qaida leaders believe operatives can pay their way into the country through Mexico and also believe illegal entry is more advantageous than legal entry for operational security reasons."

For example, Mahmoud Youssef Kourani paid a smuggler to be whisked across the U.S./Mexican frontier in 2001, FBI Director Robert Mueller told a Senate hearing earlier this year. Kourani was sentenced in June to 4½ years in prison for raising $40,000 for Hezbollah.

The Sept. 11 Commission identified Salim Boughader Mucharrafille, a Tijuana cafe owner, as a "human smuggler with suspected links to terrorists." Until his December 2002 arrest, Murcharrafille sneaked some 200 fellow Lebanese, including Hezbollah sympathizers, into the United States. The Associated Press found him in a Mexico City prison last month.

Last April, the June 30 Washington Times explained, Mexican officials detained four Iraqis at the airport in Mexicali, a border town. They had flown there from Mexico City, but were stopped when they were discovered traveling on bogus Dutch passports.

A phony Canadian passport accompanied Syrian Nabil al-Marabh as he took an illegal tractor-trailer ride from Canada into New York in June 2001. Linked to al-Qaida, he since has been deported.

Despite these high-profile jailings and expulsions, many captured SIAs walk away, thanks to the so-called "catch and release" policy. Since 9/11, 118,000 non-Mexican illegal immigrants have been apprehended and then unhanded because of a lack of detention facilities. Many of these are young Middle Eastern men. Immigration officers give these aliens a document ordering them to return for court dates. They nickname this form the "notice to disappear."

Americans on the border are duly concerned. A member of the private American Border Patrol last year carried a fake suitcase bomb - complete with a large radiation symbol painted on its side - from inside Mexico, across the Arizona border, then right beside Tucson's federal building.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice . . .

Deroy Murdock is a senior fellow with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in Fairfax, Va. E-mail him at deroy.murdock@gmail.com.



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CONGRESS THIS WEEK:

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September 25

5-9 PM EDT New Hampshire Center for Constitutional Studies Dinner

Manchester, NH

I'm there, man. Manchvegas, NH.

Hi tms,
I wanted to reply to your post today, but I was so busy that I was never able to get back online for awhile. Thank you for posting all of that.

I am so glad that Tom Tancredo is traveling so much and he is getting to meet the people who support him. I bet he is feeling more and more confident about winning in 2008.

You know, I believe it was RoadRunner today who really pointed out an important fact for us to remember. When Jim Gilchrist started the Minuteman Project he only had fifteen volunteers!! Can you imagine, and that is ALL he thought he was going to have at first. Wow. I hope they will add that part into the history books. Now look at Cong. Tancredo, I bet even one year ago he never would have dreamed his efforts might end up putting him in the White House. I sincerely believe it is possible, and if he did not also, I doubt he would be going to all these places.

I'm with you, and so many people, and I will do my best to help him. That reminds me, they do sell bumper stickers at Team America website. I would really like to have one. Really!

Sorry, I have been so busy. I will try to keep up on Tom news......