Tancredo tells young conservatives to halt immigration at Summit on Radical Islam.
Tancredo tells young conservatives to halt immigration at Summit on Radical Islam.
This past weekend at the Young America’s Foundation’s Summit on Radical Islam, former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) once again advocated for an immigration policy that closes the nation’s doors to all foreign workers, regardless of their skill-level. When one young UCLA conservative questioned whether it would actually be wise to turn away the high-skilled labor of other countries, Tancredo said he’d like to “try” shutting off all immigration:
QUESTION: We’re still really strapped — we don’t have nurses, we don’t have enough teachers, we don’t have enough OB-GYNs…So isn’t it a little maybe narr — I’m not saying narrow-minded — but maybe not looking at the picture accurately if you say we can just shut off all immigration?
TANCREDO: Well…[Laughs]…I’d like to give it a try. [More laughing].
Watch it:
Tancredo is an honorary chairman of Youth for Western Civilization and accepted over $20,000 in donations from eugenecist John Tanton during his failed 2008 presidential campaign. Though many attribute his loss and the GOP’s overall defeat to the anti-immigrant platforms that he and several other Republicans espoused, Tancredo continues to defy the advice of some of his brightest party members by singing the only “tune” he knows. Several Republican leaders and strategists have indicated that the GOP must clean up its rhetoric and views on immigration if it hopes to endure.
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Speaking as a Native American, this sort of thinking is about 500 years too late…
/snark
July 21st, 2009 at 10:05 amIf Republican Ignorance was currency, we could use it to pay off our national debt, eliminate hunger around the world, colonize Mars, and eliminate taxes altogether.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:06 amFirst, we have more than 15 million US citizens out of work. As to the competitiveness argument, that’s how the overseers got the slave and serfs to work harder. It is not simple arsed, what my gut says, ….
July 21st, 2009 at 10:06 amStop giving this racist a forum, no one other than the few people at the forum would know this jerk said anything. STOP giving him credibility….do you hear that MSNBC (Matthews and Ed Schultz)
July 21st, 2009 at 10:07 amWe don’t need no stinkin’ Einsteins in America. Lock the border.
Ethnocentric much Tom?
July 21st, 2009 at 10:12 amWhen asked what to do about the illegal immigrants living in the U.S., Tancredo replied, I think Bruno had the right idea; we can use them as furniture.’
July 21st, 2009 at 10:12 amTom Tancredo originally attempted to make a name for himself by getting rabid about illegal immigration.
Now he appears to oppose LEGAL immigration, showing it’s not illegal immigration he’s against — it’s foreigners in general.
I suppose from here he’ll progress to advocating the deportation of anyone who wasn’t born here, whether they’re here legally or not, and whether they’re a naturalized citizen or not.
And then he’ll want anybody who’s the child or the grandchild of immigrants to leave the country. OOOOOPS! He’ll have gone too far when he hits that point — since all four of his grandparents immigrated to the United States from Italy, he’d have to go.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:17 amIf Tancredo had had his way back in 1964, we’d never have seen the Beatles on Ed Sullivan…
July 21st, 2009 at 10:18 amI’m sure the Repubs WILL “clean up” their rhetoric. But the underlying bigotry and hate will remain the same. They’re a dying breed any they know it.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:20 amIf the quoted/featured UCLA Young Conservative represents “some of the brightest party members” as this post author (Andrea Hill) implies, then the near-future RepubliCON Party is going to be as shambolic as its present iteration.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:21 amClearly this young man knows the xenophobia of the Party he associates himself with is at least impractical, but apparently that’s the only problem he has with it.
If he were anywhere close to substantially comprehending the moral/social/economic and political ramifications if immigration policy as a whole, he’d be a Democrat.
One things for certain – Tancredo will remain a “former” congressman because of his narrow-minded viewpoint on immigration. All Tancredo can do is complain – thankfully he’s powerless to do anything else. Keep that GOPer tent shrinking.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:22 amIt surprises me in his neanderthal bigoted racist homophobe view that he would want to halt immigration because where is the medical field going to get it`s $35,000 a year doctors and $25000 a year nurses from or the computer industry going to get it`s $20000 a year techs from………out sourcing these jobs saves millions of $$$$$$ for his campaign contributors so his greedy buddies in all industry`s that have sold the American working and Middle class down the river for $$$$$(GREED).
July 21st, 2009 at 10:23 amAnd if Tancredo had had his way back in 1910, his grandparents would never have been allowed to emigrate from Italy.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:24 amIs it narrow-minded to send Tancredo out of the country and close the borders just to him? Well, I’d like to give it a try. [laughing]
July 21st, 2009 at 10:24 am5th Estate, I don`t know if he would be a Democrat but if he did have a conscience he wouldn`t be their in the first place listening to the HATE that comes from the Reich and it`s ideology.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:26 amAnyone who’s ever lived in or around Seattle understands the incredible rush of being the last car to board the ferry. Those left behind understand that they will get their turn soon.
If Tancredo had his way, Ellis Island would have stopped “ferry” service altogether after the Tancredos signed the book. What a racist fcuk!
PEACE
July 21st, 2009 at 10:34 amThis talk about the Republican party being a mess are way off target. He wasn’t speaking at a Republican conference, he was speaking at an Anti-muslim conference. Big difference.
Rep Tom Tancredo will head the Dominionist ticket in 2012 and probably be joined by (x)Gov Mother Sarah Palin….that is, if God has any say in the matter. He is no more pleased than you about the direction of the Republican Party-headed by Micheal Steele, one look at whom proves he’s got a fairly impressive immigrant bloodline problem himself.
He can shed these and other difficulties as a Dominionist. Rep Tom will be a force to be reckoned with, much more so than Capt POW Sen John McCain.
Nothing raises the Dominionist Party hopes like a deep economic depression and all the immigrants trying to steal our jobs.
-RPTH
July 21st, 2009 at 10:47 amaward winning interblogger
Really? There’s a difference?
What, are the anti-muslims indifferent to tax cuts? Is that the difference?
July 21st, 2009 at 10:50 amchristopher wiwi says: 5th Estate, I don`t know if he would be a Democrat but if he did have a conscience he wouldn`t be their (sic) in the first place listening to the HATE that comes from the Reich and it`s ideology.
Well, I don’t condemn him for just being there; after all he had the balls to question the guest of ‘honor’.
The trouble is he’s got to be in his twenties, he’s been able to vote once and he he clearly doesn’t just identify himself as a conservative voter but rather as a committed conservative promoter (as it were).
YET though he’s presumably had 4 years or so to inform himself about the policies and philosophies of the ‘Conservative Movement’ with which he has specifically chosen to identify, his questioning of Tancredo’s attitude to immigration amounts to apostasy!
The glimmer of practical intelligence in his question is thus overwhelmed by either ignorance of the Conservative credo ( in which case why does he consdier himself a ‘COnservative, if he doesn;t know what that really means?)…
…OR, he possesses that most conservative of characteristics, that of “cognitive dissonance” wherein he can challenge a fundamental and essential plank of the conservative platform yet still imagine that the structure sound enough that he is still will to stand upon–even jump up and down on it and sell it to others as a must-have item.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:56 amTancredo,is a German name, makes you wonder if Tancredo salutes Hitler’s picture in the morning when he wakes up, and before he goes to bed at night!
July 21st, 2009 at 10:56 amooh, dammit, lots of typos in my own comment #20—sorry christopher wiwi :D
July 21st, 2009 at 10:58 am5th Estate,Maybe it is that G-D sent him to the hate filled bigoted racist homophobe meeting…..just saying.
July 21st, 2009 at 11:02 amso, how long will it be before tom tancredo shimmies up the statue of liberty and chisels the “give mt your tired, your poor…” motto off of her book?
July 21st, 2009 at 11:17 amraynman says:
Speaking as a Native American, this sort of thinking is about 500 years too late…
/snark
Who knew when we fed those Mayflower boat people that they would bring more uninvited guests… /snark
July 21st, 2009 at 11:20 amTom Tancredo, willing to stand up for his rights while eliminating others’.
July 21st, 2009 at 11:23 amjimmcdosh says:
Wow, cant they all just get along??
Wow, can’t you even spam with a relevant comment?
July 21st, 2009 at 11:30 amSheesh.
I actually used to live in his District and was appalled by what he was saying in his campaign speeches about “Illegals”.
When I realized this wasn’t going to change, I moved to a different District with actual Adult Representation (Dems).
He is a wack-job of the first degree!!!
July 21st, 2009 at 11:31 amThe Republican base is the have-mores and the self-hating poor. At this rate, the party will be primarily composed of people too cognitively unorganized to vote and too broke to make campaign contributions.
July 21st, 2009 at 12:10 pmTom “Terrible Two Tantrum” Tancredo is just following in the footsteps of some of Colorado’s finest pioneers; the ones who arrived in Colorado in the early and mid 1800s and made a concerted effort to push out of the territory and then from the new state as many of the Native Americans, Hispanics and Mexicans as they could. Pushing out and killing people (Sand Creek) who’d been there for at least a century or more for the latter two groups and a few millenia for the former. Yep, the very same pioneers who then had the gall to claim, a la Pat Buchanan, that they were the people who settled the place. WTF?
July 21st, 2009 at 12:24 pmBeing a Native American, I think we are waaayyyy toooo late on this.
I am a progressive liberal and…well….we are getting a might crowded here.
July 21st, 2009 at 12:25 pmAnd all the Mexicans and Canadians entering the country are Radical Muslims – right ? After all, they both have brown skin.
July 21st, 2009 at 1:53 pmDumb asses, immigration is NOT why you lost the election. It was you had 30+ yrs of control, and did NOTHING but line your pockets, start wars for no reason and screw over the American people. You deserve exactly what you got.
July 21st, 2009 at 4:47 pm