Tancredo to boycott Spanish-language debate

DES MOINES, Iowa — Rep. Tom Tancredo says his fellow Republican presidential candidates are aiding immigrants in breaking the law by taking part in this weekend's Spanish-language debate in Miami.

"What all my colleagues — what the other candidates are doing — it's encouraging violation of the law because it's saying, 'Don't worry about the fact that you have to know English to earn citizenship,' " said Mr. Tancredo, the only Republican to turn down the invitation from Univision for Sunday night's debate and who said the other candidates' participation was worse than pandering.

For the Colorado congressman, it's a matter of principle: He said the other candidates are contributing to the Balkanization of the country by joining the debate, in which the candidates will speak English, but their answers will be translated into Spanish for broadcast on the nation's largest Spanish-language network.

And it's one of the few areas left to Mr. Tancredo, the original anti-illegal immigration candidate in the Republican field, as he struggles to set himself apart from the others who have adopted many of his stances on the issue — so much so that he said he is being "out-Tancredoed."

Yesterday, he released a stark television ad here that shows photos of bloody bodies, including those of children, lying in a street, victims of gang violence. The ad warns that the violent criminals behind those kinds of attacks are sneaking into the U.S., and calls for deportation of illegal aliens — something most other candidates have shied away from, calling for attrition through better enforcement instead.

The ad blames "gutless politicians" for not acting to secure the borders and remove illegal aliens.

Mr. Tancredo said he has a little money and a short period of time before the caucuses, so he figured he needed to make as much of an impact as he could. But he said he wasn't going for shock value in order to try to regain territory.

"That wasn't the purpose in this," he said. "It helps, but that wasn't on my mind."

this moron has effectively alienated the Hispanic community. Considering that Latinos will constitute 25% of the population by 2020, the Republican party has shot itself in the foot by allowing this douche to stand as a candidate. Democrats don't have to worry about getting the minority vote, Tancredo did the job for them.

It's official. This guy is a f*cking idiot. BALKANIZATION!@!#@!#@ Are you shitting me?

Violation of the law!@!? wtf?


Basically this bigot feels that if one doesn't know english well enough to understand a presidential candidate's position on specific issues, then they have no right in knowing at all, and thus no right in voting - regardless of if they are citizens....

He does realize that speaking Spanish is not illegal, right?

It would be if he had his way...

that and you don't HAVE to know English to become a citizen. Maybe he should learn the system if he is so adamantly against it. I say we all move to Colorado. I do love snow!

"Tancredo" doesn't sound very American to me. Isn't that I-Talian?

Ya know, Alicrap and Tancredo will be quick to tell you they want to stop all immigration so all legal immigrants will assimilate, yet it is written in the Declaration of Independence that ALL men are have a right to the pursuit of happiness. if someone finds happiness by keeping the cultural values of their home country, then wouldn't preventing him from doing so be unamerican?


Not to mention it would also be a huge violation of the first amendment.....

Tancredo has a Sanctuary McMansion?

From Immigrationprof:

"Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them."
--Thomas Jefferson

founding daddy, yo