The Latin Americanist (Free subscription) | yesterday
... members of President Bush’s party have expressed their resistance to “Plan Mexico”. Republican Tom Tancredo proposed a failed amendment to halt the Merida Initiative while a pair of representatives have requested that the president drop the plan altogether . Even Texan GOP legislators have not been pleased with the president: "Our first priority must be to secure our own border and equip...
ColoradoPols.com - Front Page (Free subscription) | yesterday
As The Denver Post reports: The race to replace outgoing U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo hits its first checkpoint this weekend, when Republicans in the 6th Congressional District hold their assembly. Five Republicans are vying to replace Tancredo, a sometimes controversial conservative who decided not to seek re-election. Saturday's assembly, at the Doug las County Events Center, provides the...
HispanicTrending (Free subscription) | yesterday
... for immigration reform. In fact, they might even try to compare McCain to nativists such as Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., who competed with the Arizona senator for the GOP nomination. Good luck. The two men seem to detest one another. They even tangled last summer when McCain dismissed Tancredo's views on what makes someone an American as "beyond my realm of thinking." Latinos in Arizona...
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | yesterday
... he should try spending a little more time in his own country.”… read on That was probably music to Tom Tancredo’s ears. I doubt Geno would serve him a Philly cheesesteak either, but shackels? I like Digby's take : One of the most frustrating things about the authoritarian house that Bush built is the argument that you have to trust them, they're only doing it to “keep the country safe.”...
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | yesterday
Whenever you hear nativists like Lou Dobbs and Tom Tancredo wank endlessly about "cracking down on illegal immigration," you always hear them give lip service to the idea that they also have to crack down on the people who are doing the hiring. That's why Bush's "immigration crackdown," when announced , featured lots of talk about making employers toe the line too. But this week's immigration...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
DENVER -- Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo has been hailed and reviled for his hard-line stance on immigration, and he doesn't plan on shying away from the issue after he retires in January.
Phi Beta Cons (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
From Michelle Malkin via Dave Weigel, Tom Tancredo has quot;appliedquot; for the Colorado quot;conservative-thought professorquot; position:I should b... . . .
St. Louis CofCC Blog (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
KCNC-CBS-4 Denver: Tancredo Jokes He Wants To Be CU Professor Republican congressman Tom Tancredo has fired off a wisecracking press release saying he wants to be a professor of conservative politics at the University of Colorado — a school often criticized by conservatives as being too liberal. The outspoken opponent of illegal immigration is suggesting classes in “English [...]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... about - that if there are 1,500 beds available, I guarantee you they will be used," said Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., an outspoken critic of illegal immigration. "Until we have actually secured the border, of course we're going to need more detention space."Pablo Paez, a spokesman for Boca Raton, Fla.-based GEO, didn't return repeated telephone messages for comment.On a recent day at Aurora,...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... a thumb in the eye to anyone's progressive politics."Some conservatives were immediately critical.Tom Lucero, a Republican and a member of the university's governing Board of Regents, said the focus of the visiting chair was narrow."Part of what our goal and intent is is to widen the debate," he said. "The way you widen the debate is by casting the description in much broader terms. It should not...
cbs4denver.com: Water Cooler (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Republican congressman Tom Tancredo has fired off a wisecracking press release saying he wants to be a professor of conservative politics at the University of Colorado -- a school often criticized by conservatives as being too liberal.
Alterdestiny (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Sometimes, I really appreciate people like Tom Tancredo. Apparently, fencing off Mexico and destroying both relations and the environment isn't enough. Now, it's time to get one on the Northern side, too. It makes me happy when wingnuts undermine their own points, points that have support amidst his crazy brethren, by going overboard in manic paranoia. It's pretty clear that all the people refused...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
The Washington Post reports on a new study revealing the quicker and quicker adaptation of immigrants to American norms. In general, the longer an immigrant lives in the United States, the more characteristics of native citizens he or she tends to take on, said Jacob L. Vigdor, a professor at Duke University and author of the study. During periods of intense immigration, such as from 1870 to 1920,...
The RBC (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
It's not called that, but a legal permanent resident of the United States who gets caught up in the toils of Immigration and Customs Enforcement can die of medical neglect. Congratulations to Mickey Kaus and Mark Krikorian and Rush Limbaugh and Tom Tancredo for making it politically possible for an agency of the U.S. government to behave this way: reminiscent of the way John McCain was treated...
Alternet (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
But if I were a Republican politician, I might feel differently. Unfortunately for the GOP, it appears that the Republicans don't have a demographer on staff. They continue to allow their party to be defined by the anti-immigrant bellowing of the likes of Congressman Tom Tancredo or Jim Oberweis, for example. Oberweis is a national leader in the anti-immigrant movement who just lost what was...
