Word: tancredos
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...should be a "viable" path to citizenship for undocumented aliens, he recommended hospitality in the short term, but said the long-term solution to the problem was to help raise the quality of life in the countries they are fleeing. Apparently, even that was too much for Representative Tom Tancredo, a Catholic-turned-evangelical Presbyterian and illegal-immigration foe, who engaged what might be called a bit of old-school Catholic-baiting by sniping that Benedict's comments "may have had less to do with spreading the gospel than... recruiting new members to his church...
...position - no "amnesty," crack down on employers who break the law - has had little trouble earning credibility among the state's more hard-line immigration activists. Last week, the anti-immigration movement's standard-bearer, Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo, dropped out of the race and threw his support to Romney. But on the ground in Iowa, most of Tancredo's support appears to have shifted to Thompson, including former U.S. Senate candidate Bill Salier, who was Tancredo's state campaign director, and Angie Weaver Anderson, who ran the western end of the state for Tancredo. "I don't know anybody...
Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo announced last week that he was withdrawing from the race for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. Right after that surprising announcement in Des Moines, he sat down with TIME to reflect on the impact he's had on the race and how he hopes to continue exert influence with his endorsement of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. Excerpts...
TIME: What impact has your candidacy had on the race? TANCREDO: The thing that got me into the race was the issue of illegal immigration and a much bigger picture of the society, of the culture itself and what was happening to it with the Balkanization of America, the bilinguilization of America; the things that are pulling us apart... instead of pulling us together, the lack of assimilation that's occurring among the people who are coming here. All these things that I felt were of major importance to the nation and I felt that no one else was addressing...
...trying to give illegal immigrants drivers licenses and it cost her severely. It cost her in the polls and it cost him: he had to withdraw the proposal. And none of these things would've ever have happened six months ago. Now is it just because of Tom Tancredo? No, but it's because I really was given a megaphone by being on the stage at that level and what you do is you energize all kinds of people that are out there and feel the same way and never had an outlet for it and now they...