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...deal with federal investigators in a recently stepped-up effort to round up undocumented aliens. A bust at a Swift & Co. meatpacking plant in Greeley allegedly turned up several hundred illegals not long ago. That, coupled with the often scrambled remarks on immigration from Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado, has strained what historically has been civil relations between Hispanics, now 20% of Colorado's 4.7 million population, and whites...
...other side of the political spectrum, the maneuvering is less high-profile. Two long-shot Republican candidates have made announcements of a sort: Former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson has formed an exploratory Committee, while Rep. Tom Tancredo, of Colorado, visited Iowa and told reporters that he would be making a decision about running soon. Despite his low Q-rating, Tancredo presents the bigger of the two dark-horse threats. His signature issue - immigration reform - makes for the kind of sound-bite-friendly courting of the primary base and handsome visuals (miniature fence, anyone?) that can alter the terms of debate...
...Hispanic students raised a Mexican flag over their high school and another group took it down and burned it. In Houston the principal at Reagan High School was reprimanded for raising a Mexican flag below the U.S. and Texas ones, in solidarity with his largely Hispanic student body. Tom Tancredo, the Republican from Colorado who has become Congress's loudest anti-immigrant voice, said his congressional offices in Colorado and Washington were swamped by more than 1,000 phone calls, nearly all from people furious about the protests in which demonstrators "were blatantly stating their illegal presence in the country...
...many others in the House, seeing the direction that the Senate is taking, are only digging in deeper. More than a third of House Republicans belong to the anti-immigration caucus led by Congressman Tancredo of Colorado. (Only two Democrats are members.) After the Senate Judiciary Committee voted, more than a dozen of them held a news conference denouncing it. "It would be like a dinner bell. 'Come one, come all,'" said Colorado Representative Bob Beauprez...
...rallies may be provoking a backlash among Republican opponents of the bill. Republican Tom Tancredo, a Colorado Congressman who has been one of the leaders in the House?s push to curb illegal immigration, told the Denver Post the rallies only made him more determined to crack down on illegal immigrants. "All these folks who are here illegally know they can protest brazenly," he said. "It's really a mockery of our immigration system." He added that the protests make him even more determined to pass a House bill that does not provide for a guest worker program and would...