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By Paula R. KaufmanPosted: August 3, 2003 Thomas Tancredo is a third-term Republican congressman
from Colorado. As chairman of the 65-member Congressional Immigration Reform
Caucus he deals regularly with such facts as these: More than 33.1 million immigrants
live in the United States, a number unprecedented in U.S. history. Poverty rates for
immigrants and their U.S.-born children are two-thirds higher than for native-born
Americans and their children and account for approximately 25 percent of those
now living in poverty in this country. Twenty-four of the southernmost U.S. states
have accrued almost $1 billion in unpaid medical care – all attributed to illegal
immigration.
Tancredo worries about the innumerable U.S. jobs he says have been wiped out by
immigration. He outspokenly faults the Bush administration for its open-border
policy, which Tancredo believes not only has put Americans out of work but also
suppressed their wages. "I speak to people who lose their jobs to immigration:
electricians, carpenters, high-tech workers. They call my office all the time. Hundreds
of thousands of Americans are losing their jobs to immigrants, both legal and
illegal,'' Tancredo tells Insight.
Tancredo also blames the immigration crisis on the ''liberal agenda," which he sees as
encouraging immigrants to retain their language and their political allegiance to a foreign
government while seeing themselves as separate and distinct from other Americans. It's
a situation, he says, created by the liberal ''cult of multiculturalism." He's also concerned
about the number of people – between 6 million and 10 million – in the United States with
dual citizenship. What does this mean for America's sovereignty and the future of the
country? Tancredo is not alone in his concern: Polls show that 75 percent of Americans
support immigration reform.
Tancredo warns about what he sees as the continuing encroachment of Mexico in the
affairs of the United States. He regards the controversial matricula consular, an
identification card issued by Mexico, as an effort to regularize illegal immigration
into the United States. He points out that the suspected murderer of Los Angeles
County Deputy Sheriff David March, arrested and deported not once but three
times, lives openly in Mexico and has not been arrested by Mexican officials. The
Colorado congressman seeks changes in the U.S. extradition treaty with Mexico
and is considering calling for congressional- oversight hearings on the influence
of Mexican cartels on U.S. politics. What guides Tancredo's attitude toward
immigration, he says, is a principle as old as the republic itself – that ''we are a
nation bonded by a common language, culture, manners and customs."
Question from Insight: The U.S. economy is in a slump and Americans by the millions
are out of work, yet the wholesale replacement of our workers by immigrants is under
way. What gives?
