sarah_skull ([info]sarah_skull) wrote,

Dear Sixth District of Colorado...

... I feel your pain. Rep. Tom Tancredo is WAY crazy, even for the House of Representatives. Some of his latest efforts at statesmanship:

THE TANCREDO BILL: In between demanding the resignation of the Secretary of Homeland Security for failing to deport every illegal immigrant and stumping for the Minuteman Project, Rep. Tancredo has crafted some legislation of his own. Among other things, the bill "would change citizenship law so that children born to people here illegally or on temporary visas would not automatically become U.S. citizens" and "hospitals could only be reimbursed for treating illegal immigrants if they report citizenship information to the Department of Homeland Security." Tancredo has basically admitted that his strategy is to drag down the quality of life to get illegal immigrants to go home: "Without jobs and without social service benefits and without the ability to send your kids off to school, if you do all these things, pretty soon it's just not worth it and it becomes difficult to be here and you return home." Tancredo's most recent contribution to national security policy dialogue was to suggest retaliatory bombing of Mecca and other Islamic holy sites if the United States were to be attacked.

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Not exactly "give me your huddled masses...."


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[info]atticus_rex

July 27 2005, 03:50:33 UTC 6 years ago

Can you believe this guy? Even for the Republicants, he's ouuuuut there.

[info]osbick_bird

July 27 2005, 09:35:40 UTC 6 years ago

It's a lousy way to think about it, but our agricultural base relies upon being able to exploit immigrant labor. It's cheap. Otherwise the cost of production would be too high. Cutting off the flow of illegal immigrants is a bad economic move, as they contribute far more than they cost everyone else. Not that it's the way things *should* be, but this kind of blowhard pontification is stupid. Who else does he imagine will flock to the crop harvesting and meat processing and other similar badly-paid crap jobs that nobody wants? NOT that I think that's all people from other countries, legal or not, are worthy of or entitled to do or anything. Just that it seems a much better deal for "legal" people than illegal immigrants.

[info]sarah_skull

July 27 2005, 16:26:51 UTC 6 years ago

No kidding! Didn't you guys out in Oregon get nationwide press because your strawberries were literally rotting out in the field based on immigration crackdowns against migrant laborers? Even I love strawberries! Maybe Tancredo doesn't really hate immigrants, he just really, really hates strawberries...
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