Guess what TANCREDO told Brownsville, TX, about the border wall!1

[UTUSN]

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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5736894.html

April 28, 2008, 4:33PM

Hostile reception for pro-fence congressmen in Brownsville

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press Writer
© 2008 The Associated Press

.... Boos and hisses emanated from the audience for a congressional field hearing when Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado dismissed residents' concerns that the effort to build 670 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border by year's end would damage the environment and destroy a centuries-old bond between residents on both sides of the Rio Grande.

Late in the five-hour hearing, Tancredo returned to a comment made earlier by panelist Betty Perez, a rancher and local activist. Perez said, "It really isn't a border to most of us who live down here."

Tancredo dismissed Perez's remarks as a "multiculturalist attitude toward borders."

As jeers rose, Tancredo added, "I suggest that you build this fence around the northern part of your city." ....

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http://notexasborderwall.com/

[ThomWV]

1. 7,000 mile fence on a 5,000 mile border and it won't stop a thing.

[panader0]

5. True

I live close to the border (15 miles) and there's quite a bit of fence completed. The illegals either go around it, put up a ladder, or tunnel under it. We sure are spending a lot of money on it though. $279 million was spent by the Dept of Homie Security in the last 9 months in Az alone. This was on the front page of the Arizona Daily Star on Sunday.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. this ? -- Build border wall north of town --

http://www.valleymorningstar.com/articles/brownsville_24915___article.html/colo_rep.html

April 28, 2008 - 4:30PM

The Associated Press

BROWNSVILLE - One of Congress' strongest border fence proponents received a hostile reception today in the city that has become the epicenter of fence opposition.

Boos and hisses emanated from the audience for a congressional field hearing when Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado dismissed residents' concerns that the effort to build 670 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border by year's end would damage the environment and destroy a centuries-old bond between residents on both sides of the Rio Grande.

Late in the five-hour hearing, Tancredo returned to a comment made earlier by panelist Betty Perez, a rancher and local activist. Perez said, ``It really isn't a border to most of us who live down here.''

Tancredo dismissed Perez's remarks as a ``multiculturalist attitude toward borders.''

more at link posted above

[Ian David]

3. I think the wall should be built between Texas and Oklahoma. n/t

[elizfeelinggreat]

6. I think

any state that elected Mitt Romney as their governor should have been abolished and absorbed into a sane nearby state. :D

How does that feel?

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. ...

:thumbsup:

[Ian David]

8. WHHHHhhhAAAAAAAaaaaaa aGGGGggHH HHhhhhh!!!! n/t

[Turbineguy]

10. Why not just

build a fence around Tancredo? Materials less than $200 at Home Depot.

[AlphaCentauri]

4. what a way to provoke the anti mexican movement mr. tancredo

[saltpoint]

9. Tom is nothing if not visionary.

What a refreshing, insightful, problem-solving guy he is.

[UTUSN]

11. Surprizesurprize: Grandson of immigrants opposing ALL immigration, Vietnam chickenhawk!1

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tancredo

Tancredo was born in Denver, Colorado to Adeline Lombardi and Gerald Tancredo. Both sets of his grandparents immigrated from Italy.<5> He graduated from the University of Northern Colorado with a degree in political science. While in college, Tancredo was active with the College Republicans and a conservative, nonpartisan organization, Young Americans for Freedom (YAF). Tancredo was in favor of the Vietnam War and spoke in support of the conflict as a Republican student activist. He became eligible to serve in Vietnam after graduating from the University of Northern Colorado in June 1969. Tancredo has said he went for his physical, telling doctors he'd been treated for depression, and eventually got a "1-Y" deferment<6>. ....

Tancredo was appointed by the President to be the regional representative in Denver for the Department of Education. He stayed on from 1981 until 1992, through the first Bush administration, and pared the office's staff from 225 to only 60 employees. ....

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