Republicans and Immigration - Take Note John McCain

Stop ignoring pro-immigrant Republicans! We got you this far, if you put fringe xenophobes ahead of the American people, you will have done more damage to your party than Tom Tancredo could have ever done on his own. Take a look at this Washington Post / ABC News Survey

16. (ASKED OF LEANED REPUBLICANS) Regardless of who you may support, who do you trust
most to handle (ITEM)?
Immigration issues
McCain    27
Giuliani  17       
Huckabee  15

Romney    11
Thompson   9   
If I were to rank the candidates on their views on immigraiton in terms of
rationality & unwillingness to succumb to immigrant bashing it would go as follows:

McCain
Giuliani
Huckabee
Romney
Thompson

See a trend?
If you were to listen to the media or some of the republican candidates  you would
come away thinking republicans are xenophobic bigots who hate all "foreigners".
This assumption is derogatory and the fact that some republican candidates think they
need to pander to a very small xenophobic segment of their electorate is disturbing
and insulting to the Republican party as a whole.

Get to Know an Immigrant

The NPR/Kaiser/Kennedy School Immigration Survey found that the more contact a native born American had with immigrants, the more positively they viewed immigration.

This isn't surprising, congressional districts with high populations of undocumented immigrants tend to favor more rationale immigration policies. You would think the more "overrun " with immigrants a district is the more likely the citizens of the district would vote for a immigration restrictionist but the opposite is true. They love their immigrants.

Click here for a link regarding Tom Tancredo's district, what a shocker there are very few immigrants. For those of you who don't know, Tom Tancredo is the self appointed #1 anti-immigration crusader in congress.

Thanks to the American Humanity Blog for pointing out that Volunteermatch.org has a feature that allows you to search for volunteer opportunities specifically regarding Immigrants and Refugees. Go out, befriend an immigrant while helping your community at the same time.

Why is Tom Tancredo So Scared of People He's Never Met?

Here are the demographics of Tom Tancredo's district
87.7% White
1.9% Black
2.6% Asian
5.8% Hispanic
0.4% Native American
0.1% other

Hispanics, Asians, and African Americans are underrepresented in your district. The majority of these are probalby U.S. citizens, a tiny number are probably documented immigrants, and a small handful at most are undocumented immigrants. So why has he devoted his career to a problem that does not affect his district in the least?

What are you outraged about Tom?

EDIT: Tom is retiring and this is his last term in congress. Don't let the door hit you on the way out Tommy.

You've got to be kidding me.

In a desperate move for attention nativists in the house are trying to force a vote on the draconian SAVE Act (also known as the Schuler-Tancredo Bill). Give me a break, you're losing your clout (McCain won despite your protests), elections (2006 elections & Foster beating Oberweis), and now you want to give up on your credibility? Scapegoating only works for so long, get over it. How much is this legislation going to cost us? So far the enforcement only approach has been incredibly expensive. Stop wasting my money because you think your constituents are racists hicks. For the most part they aren't. You are.

Give your congress person a call and tell them to start working on real solutions and not political stunts such as the SAVE Act.

It takes 2 min and the congressional switchboard number is 1-800-839-5276 or 202-224-3121.

You can also email them by clicking here.

Tancredo Employed Undocumented Workers

With all the fuss surrounding Romney and hiring undocumented gardeners. I think it's only fair we point out the biggest hypocrite of the bunch. Tom Tancredo. For most of us this this is old news but for the rest of you, here's another reason to despise Tancredo. One of his constituents started the Tancredowatch, check out for more information on him.

Click here for more on Tom.

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Wonkette Calls out Tancredo

Wonkette the DC blog is calling out how ridiculous this country has gotten in allowing Tancredo to air this blatantly bigoted ad.

My favorite comments:

BY J.D.REGENT AT 04:48 PM

Look, I'm not trying to get anyone deported who might seem like they don't belong, but actually belongs, but doesn't Tom look a touch... ethnic to anyone else? Tancredo totally ends in a vowel too. Someone had to say it.

BY CAPE CLOD AT 05:35 PM

Why don't we just execute all the illegals and build a wall at the border using their rotting corpses? That would discourage any more interlopers.

I imagine that every time that ad runs, another thirty thousand Hispanics register as Democrats.

Special thanks to another DC resident. To the anonymous congressional staffer who posted the story about Tancredo hiring undocumented immigrants on The Capitolist. Too bad you're anonymous, otherwise I'd have to buy you a beer.

My Taco with Tancredo

The anti-immigration candidate is all for assimilation, but he sure loves authentic Mexican food.

November 23, 2007

By Joel Stein of the LA Times

"I never thought GOP presidential candidate Tom Tancredo would eat Mexican food with me. The Colorado congressman has proposed anti-immigration legislation so draconian that he's been banned from the White House and called a "nut" by Jeb Bush. And I definitely never thought Tancredo would tell me that Mexican is his favorite cuisine. That was like finding out that CNN's Nancy Grace gets turned on by violent criminals. Only surprising."

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