Candidate Calls for Raid on Immigration Bill Event
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By JULIA PRESTON
Published: October 24, 2007
Representative Tom Tancredo of Colorado, a Republican presidential candidate whose fierce opposition to illegal immigration is the center of his campaign, contacted the immigration service yesterday demanding that agents raid a senator’s news conference.

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The afternoon event on Capitol Hill was held by Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois and the leading sponsor of a bill that would give legal status to illegal immigrants who are high school graduates, if they attend college or serve in the United States military for two years. The bill is scheduled to come up for an important procedural vote in the Senate this morning.

Mr. Tancredo announced yesterday morning that he had contacted Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal agency, calling for the arrest of illegal immigrants he said would attend the news conference.

“If we can’t enforce our laws inside the building where American laws are made, where can we enforce them?” Mr. Tancredo said in a statement.

Participating in the news conference were three immigrant students who would benefit if Mr. Durbin’s legislation passed; two were born in Germany, and one was from Costa Rica. All were in the United States on temporary legal status, said Joe Shoemaker, Mr. Durbin’s spokesman.

Mr. Shoemaker said the senator was surprised and offended by Mr. Tancredo’s effort.

“Congressman, have you no shame?” Mr. Durbin said in a statement, indirectly comparing Mr. Tancredo to Senator Joseph McCarthy and his anti-communist hearings in the 1950s.

A spokeswoman for the immigration agency, Kelly Nantel, confirmed that officials had received a letter from Mr. Tancredo and were reviewing it. She said the agency took no action yesterday.

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As you can see the federal agency with power to have an action: "took no action yesterday."

I just wonder, why?

walker, walker, walker....

Did ya see that Thompson and a couple other candidates (Republican) want to illiminate Fed grants to cities that hire and protect their illegals!!!

Thompson, who spoke at Sun City Hilton Head following a stop at the Sippin' Cow restaurant in Bluffton, S.C, took questions from the crowd. Two thirds of those questions dealt with immigration-related issues.

Members of the 250-plus audience asked Thompson whether English should be America's official language and whether he had a plan to stop illegal immigration. They also questioned him on what individuals and the government should do about the problem of those illegal immigrants already here.

Thompson took the questions in stride, frequently pointing to his immigration proposal released Tuesday that would take away federal grant money from states and cities that don't report illegal immigrants to federal authorities.

Emphasizing the need to tighten border security, Thompson said "It's not a matter of `can we do it?' It's a matter of prioritizing it." He expressed confidence in the nation's ability to respond to the problem, calling the United States "a nation of unlimited Manhattan Projects."

See, and then he said,

Thompson chose to announce his plan in Collier County, which has vast tomato farms that hire thousands of immigrants and last year was part of a two-county sweep that saw 163 illegal immigrants arrested in one weekend.

Thompson's campaign said 22 percent of the county's crime is committed by illegal immigrants.

To the sheriff, Thompson said: "You've clearly been swamped with a particular kind of problem because the federal government, in large part, has let you down and has not done their part."

"There's not a lot of new legislation that needs to be passed," the candidate said. "We need to enforce the laws that are on the books. There are laws against illegal immigration, there are laws to secure the border, there are laws against sanctuary cities, there are laws against publicly funding illegals, and that law is being disregarded."

Under Thompson's plan, sanctuary cities would lose discretionary federal grants, as would colleges and universities that allow illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition.

And I kind-a-like that!!!

When I was reading that, I thought about your post about the city ID's!!!

time is wiser my friend