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Here’s one reason I like Tom Tancredo so much:

Rep. Tom Tancredo (R.-Colo.), chairman of the 90-member Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, spoke with the editors of HUMAN EVENTS last week about the immigration-reform legislation now beginning to move through the Senate.

Now we have a bill starting through the Senate Judiciary Committee under Chairman Arlen Specter (R.-Pa.). What are your concerns there?

Number one, the bill would provide amnesty for just about every one of the 13 to 20 million illegal aliens. It has an unlimited guest-worker plan attached to it. The provisions that are designed to actually enhance border security are so weak as to be non-existent. It takes almost everything and makes it into “studies” or in some way waters down all the enforcement issues. When all is said and done, it is no better than what I call the McKennedy plan—Senators [John] McCain [R.-Ariz.] and [Teddy] Kennedy [D.-Mass.] have sort of morphed together in my mind.

We are having the same argument we have been having for years around here as to whether or not we are going to succumb to the desires of the business community and, of course, the lobbying of other governments, Mexico, specifically, but not uniquely. Other governments are funding lobbying efforts here for us to open up our borders and give amnesty to all their nationals here, because they want the remittances that flow back to their countries.

The question I keep asking every senator I happen to come across: How many people do you have writing you, calling you, faxing you, emailing you, demanding a guest-worker/amnesty program, especially legal residents of the country?

Read the rest of the interview. And think about all the other GOP candidates, and what they have to say about illegal immigration. We’ve started a Tom Tancredo For President Blogroll…if you’re interested in joining email me. Go here to see where Tom stands on the other issues. It’s NOT too early to be thinking about election 2008.

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