To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don’t control our own borders.
About Tom Tancredo
Thomas Gerard Tancredois an American politician from Colorado, who represented the state’s sixth congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2009 as a Republican. He ran for President of the United States during the 2008 election, and was the Constitution Party’s unsuccessful nominee for Governor of Colorado in 2010.
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We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.
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To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don’t control our own borders.
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I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.
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Because the worst of all worlds is when you pretend like you have an immigration policy, you make coming into the United States without our permission illegal, and then you actually don’t enforce it.
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We can control our borders, we just choose not too.
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The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.
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In fact, the place where we have indicted more terrorists or potential terrorists, is our Northern border.
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Now how many people in their heart of hearts in that community want to see the demise of this country? How many would cheer, not out loud maybe, but in their heart when things like 9/11 occur and I’ll tell you; it’s a majority among them.
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They view massive immigration as a massive infusion of potential voters for the Democratic Party, and therefore will do nothing, absolutely nothing to stop that flow of legal or illegal entrance into the country.
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Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.
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If we in fact were to begin enforcing the law against people who are hiring people who are here illegally, we would go a long way towards eliminating the problem.
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We have to fight radical Islam wherever it exists. It’s in Afghanistan, it’s in Saudi Arabia, throughout the Middle-East in big numbers and it’s in the United States.
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You know, I’m a Republican, I’m a Conservative, I voted for George Bush.
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The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that’s the punishment, deportation.
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Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it’s terrible politics. It’s a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.
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This issue, if not addressed, leaves any President, including George Bush, open to the criticism that they are essentially ignoring the destruction of the nation and I believe that with all my heart.
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We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there’s nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.
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The right to kill another person is not a right that I would agree with and support.
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We have terrorists coming into the country both through our Northern and Southern borders.
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The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.
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You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.
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He can fight terrorists overseas, but he leaves our borders so they can come in here and do their thing.
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The issue of remittances where we have millions of Mexicans working in the United States sending back dollars. He said they send back 10 billion dollars a year.
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