Art Competition

Tom Tancredo announced a new competition for high school students from his Congressional district, Colorado's 6th. Any HS student in the area wishing to enter must submit an original art piece, and it may not be a collage of photograph. This competition offers students in the area an opportunity to showcase their artistic abilities. Other than that, Tancredo has been fairly quiet while going about his standard congressional work.

Tancredo up to the same thing

Tancredo has recently accused the Mexican President named Felipe Calderon of getting involved with the United States’ affairs. Tancredo told him he should focus on his own country’s problems instead of “encouraging illegal immigration.” Calderon said that the US and Mexico will never find prosperity by closing their doors. Obviously Tancredo feels very strongly about illegal immigration and will do anything in his power to stop it. Even if that means talking bad about the Mexican president.Tancredo recently supported an article based on immigration which stated that immigration reform cannot be separated from labor and trade reform. In summary, the article states that people should remain in their homeland and talks about the move to eliminate the need to migrate from Mexico.

Tancredo

In the last week, Tom Tancredo wrote a letter to President Bush in which he questioned how the Bush administration is dealing with immigration and offered his services in developing an improved strategy. His primary concern with immigration is not the issue of illegal hispanic immigrants, but the threat of terrorists slipping in. In the press release, it was stated that "According to testimony, of the 1,049,872 immigrants granted U.S. citizenship under Citizenship USA, a whopping 71,557 were later found to have FBI criminal records, including INS administrative actions, and misdemeanor and felony arrests and convictions". This poses a significant threat to the safety of the US, and Tancredo admits he would like to investigate what, or who, is allowing so many "fradulent, dangerous naturalizations".

illegal immigration....what's new

There was a tax package which was passed by the Democrat-controlled Congress recently. The package was meant to direct Internal Revenue Service to give checks from $600 to $1,200 to citizens. Tancredo thinks that this package will only stimulate more illegal immigration. The bill will also let “resident aliens” to get rebate checks and Tancredo is completely apposed to this. Tancredo beleives this package should not be set in place because it will only cause more illegal immigration.