Xenophobic Tancredo Gets Booed for Outrageous Border Fence Comments
Xenophobic bigot Tom Tancredo has come under fire for suggesting at a hearing yesterday in Brownsville, TX, that the proposed border fence ought to be built on the northern side of the town. Since the beginning of the immigration/border debate, Brownsville has become the "epicenter" of opposition to the fence.
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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.''
So what side of the border does Tancredo want to see Brownsville sitting? It's nice to see Tancredo get the reaction he deserves. Perhaps the "I hate everything foreign" card won him some points in the GOP primary, but it does nothing but alienate most sensible and thoughtful Americans.
What the hell was Tancredo doing there in the first place?
Haha! He should start a career in stand-up.
This guy should be BOOOted right out of Congress.
So Know-Nothingism rears its head for the 5,000,000,000,000th time in American history.
*wishes for a really cool facepalm picture.*
I saw we build a 12' fence around Tancredo's house. Who's with me?
Tom Tancredo is so wrong. This country was built on the foundation of diversity. Multiculturalism has brought us so many things, but I am going to list my favorite three benefits:
1. Quesadillas
2. John Coltrane
3. Asian spinners
lol racism...
Why does he object to Mexicans occupying Texas? We've occupied Japan and Germany since WW2. This is just spillover from the Mexican-American war. As long as no US troops are being killed, as McCain would say.
Robert Frost, eat your heart out...
Lange @ 6:
...and, I should not forget...
4. the complete works of Sergio Leone
Jay Severin Has A Small Pen1s @ 8:
Here's something else...
Texas was a not-well-settled province, so Mexico after it won independence asked their neighbor if they could help control aboriginal problems. People from the South poured in, with slaves, which broke Mexican law. So the ancestors of today's Texans broke Mexican law upon immigrating and then started a war to join the U.S. Ain't karma sweet?
jesus would want Tom to stop trolling for sex in airport bathrooms... Oh, wait, that was that other guy, right? What the hell was his innocent name? Juan? Juan A. Laya?
Sorry - so damn snarky.
Mugsy @ 5:
It'll be great! I bet the moron builds an 11' ladder for his escape attempt.
:)
Tancredo has never enjoyed the pleasures of a latin woman.
I just hope there's good video of this racist asshole saying what he did.
Lou Dobbs on crack.
So when is this douche going to really push for a real free trade agreement with Mexico? You know the kind, where people from both sides can go back and forth, ie no illegals. Oh that's right, these a$$hats don't want that, that way they can keep their semi slave labour with no rights whatsoever. But they sure do love being racists though.
So, they're "working to get clarification from Tom Tancredo". Hey, he just took a shit in your face, Brownsville, and clarification is needed?
Have any of you ever been to Brownsville? it is a cesspool! how about we build the fence starting just south of Corpus Christi.
Thank you crooks and liars for being an oasis of fairness and reason on the blogosphere. Netroots has completely lost its collective minds. Bless you!
When are the people of Colorado going to vote this idiot out of office? It reminds me of all the other Repugs who put their foot in there mouth or tap on a strangers foot in bathroom stalls.
The fence is just some crony boondoggle to swindle millions from the taxpayers.
Again.
FreeDUMB @ 22:
Ding ding ding! We have a winner here folks!
"Perhaps the 'I hate everything foreign' card won him some points in the GOP primary, but it does nothing but alienate most sensible and thoughtful Americans."
Unfortunately there are millions of Americans who are neither of those things. People like Tancredo thrive in times of economic insecurity.
Should draft him and send him off to Iraq. Might teach him to keep his mouth shut.
I wonder if the Repugs have a symbol or a pin they can wear to show their racism.
P.D. @ 26:
Colorado's one of the most racist, whitist places I've ever been to in my life, so I'm disgusted but not surprised that Tancredo's views are popular there. What's surprising is that similar anti-brown-skinned-immigrant attitudes are popular among white Texans, a state whose western half has contained Spanish-speaking towns for centuries and where there has long been a healthy racial mix, despite the state's shameful political reputation. As a Texan, I've found it maddening to watch right-wing media whip even Texas whites into a frenzy over the brown-skinned immigrants they've been living amicably among for years.
milquetoast @ 27:
P.D. @ 26:
It's a belt buckle that says "Gott mit Uns." Kudos to anyone who gets that reference.
General_Rennenkampf @ 11:
'aboriginal problems' sounds so innocent, reality is colonists committing genocide on annoying indians / natives who dont recognize the white central government.
General_Rennenkampf @ 30:
that fits a treat LMAO, suppose a terrified dog on the roof counts as a symbol.
Double my tax contributions to build a fence to keep GOP bigots out.
I live down here in the rio grande valley. The plans for the fence go straight though the campus of the University of Texas at Brownsville. The campus would be walled off, half on one side of this stupid fence and half on the other.
This is so stupid. Someone is just gonna start a company to build 16' ladders.
Damn, thats just...damn.
Oh, and what the fuck is this guy doing saying they should put the wall north of Brownsville! That guy is a piece of shit. He should go to Guantanamo for saying something so unamerican!
Build a fence around Tancredo's district, and restrict immigration out of there and into the sane parts of this country to folks who voted against him. People who would keep sending such an ignorant racist to Congress shouldn't be allowed to contaminate my country.
I hope they do build a 12' fence along the U.S. Mexico border.
Did I mention I'm opening a 14' ladder company based out of Reynosa?
Kinda makes a case for electing an "elitist" eh? When did that become a bad word? *grins*
Garbage in, garbage out.
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Well, how about building the wall right along where Mexico used to end? That would sure take care of a heap o' the "immigrant" problem, eh? jee jee :)
Jo @ 23:
ROFLMOA! Oh the truth of it all.
I mean ROFLMAO! I don't have an off-ass.
Mr. Tancredo, tear down this wall!
How about on the northern side of Texas? How about a trip to China to see how well their wall worked? How about a wall on the southern side of Colorado? How about a Statue of Liberty on the southern border of Texas?
If Mexican Catholics want to oppose birth control, oppose abortion and have 5 or 6 kids who am I to say they are wrong? But they should stay in their own Mexican Catholic country. Otherwise, maybe they should start to use birth control. When they bring their birth rate down to just over two per family then they can apply for a work visa here and if accepted they can come on in. When are people going to see that population growth is a problem.
Tancredo must have assumed the fact that he was NOT YET implicated in any perverted sex scandal as a reason to run.
I mean - there's not that many re-PIG-lics out there who can say that now, are there?
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Gosh what a surprise another right wing racist, According to Tancredo Mexicans must be from Mars
Tancredo isn't a bigot, he's a patriot trying to wake people up to save our country, you morons! We are NOT "multi-cultural", we're AMERICANS! Everyone of you traitorous fools who has forgotten that, why don't you move to whatever country you wish you were from, if not this one!
It's great that this country was built by people from all over the world, but as Stephen Colbert said, "It's built already"....meaning, we don't need more people flooding in, trickling in, sneaking in or whatever, to continue building it. I am tired of hearing all of you brainwashed people spew your commie BS!
Don't you understand? If we are multi-cultural, we are no longer Americans! I assume all of you who commented here are happily awaiting our planned integration into the North American Union, then? Since you are all so willing to throw away our sovereignty, you must be.
Yo, dudes. You are not allowed to post comments on this thread unless they are anti-Tancreco, or pro-"multi-cultural". I can't wait for us to be integrated into the North American Union. I never believed in that thing called 'sovereignty', anyway.
Immigration control is not racist. Period. The EU nations have immigration controls, are they all racist too?
If people want to "save" mexicans from their own country, then do it so, but do it with your own money. The rest of us are tired of picking up the tab for new arrivals when we can't even take care of those citizens we already have.
Nothing demonstrates how out of touch the Liberal elite are with the rest of the Democratic and Independent voters than this very issue.
Rocky @ 49:
If this is not sarcasm, then you need to go find a place to end your miserable life.
Racist @ 51:
Living up to your handle eh asshole? Go somewhere and die.
How about a little turd?
don myers @ 45:
You forgot to mention a wall around Texas...
The voters of Colorado should be proud of this piece of crap. Not only did he offend the residents of Brownsville, but the residents of Texas. Tancredo, thank a rich Texan next time he comes to your state to buy land or go skiing. Your an asshole.
As a life long far leftist all i can say is liberal rulers have nothing to offer the americans that lost their good paying construction jobs to illegal immigrants.
Thats why after voting for Dems for more than 30 years i don't vote for them anymore.
The rank and file Dems do not support illegal immigrants.
That should be obvious to anybody that saw what happened when Spitzer tried to give drivers licenses to illegals in the heavily liberal state of NY.
He lost 40 points off his approval rating in about 2 weeks.
And don't forget that the leftist labor organizer Ceaser Chavez held protests against the use of illegal immigrants by american employers.
Illegal immigrants are scabs used by the rich man to drive down wages for the american worker .
Since when did scabs become a good thing to liberals ?
Since when did the american worker become so unimportant to liberals ?
bob @ 58:
Being against xenophobia is not the same as being pro-illegal immigration.
As a "life long leftist" you should able to understand that...
OverPopulationIsProblem @ 46:
LOL, I can see the same line of thought in Northern Mexico over a century ago: "I those WASP gringos want to pass their own manifest destiny, who are we to say they are wrong? But they should stain in their own East coast WASP country. Otherwise, maybe the should start to stop expanding west. When they accept international law and they can apply for a work visa and if accepted they can come on in. When are people going to see that unchecked manifest destiny and Westward expansion taking other people's land is a problem?
Racist @ 51:
As a person who volunteers with the lest fortunate, let me assure you... that you have not to worry, you ain't picking much of a tab.
It is astounding the level of vitriol of some people, who would much rather have a hot iron placed firmly up their asses than having to contemplate one of their precious tax dollars being spent on helping anyone.
The irony of it all is that illegal immigrants do the jobs Americans shun, pay certain form of taxation, and some studies show that they present a positive income overall (i.e. they contribute more to the country than what they take away on that welfare paradise some of you seem to think it is being bankrolled by your tax dollars). Yet, corporate welfare is orders of magnitude larger, a lot of those corporations pay little to no taxes (negative rate in some cases), and are sending jobs overseas like there is no tomorrow.
But, by all means focus on the illegal welfare queens, while the people on top take your precious tax dollars, morons.
good to see that Tancredo has finally owned up to being a lily-livered wimp and all-round girly-man, surrendering after the Battle of Resaca de la Palma.
Perhaps Tancredo could be appointed ambassador to Venezuela, so that he can negotiate the US surrender to Hugo Chavez, since he's obviously proven his mettle with this border fence issue.
tom tancredo: official republican presidential candidate of the KKK.
The Dude @ 61:
the naked selfishness and cowardice of all these people going, "i refuse to allow my tax dollars to be used help anyone" is really nauseating. it's just so in-your-face. these folks don't give a flying fk about anything but themselves and i understand that, but the thing that's truly astonishing is that they don't even have the basic human decency to be ashamed of themselves.
Good ol' Tom the Tampon Tancredo. We should build a fence around him.
Last I checked there were plenty of laws on the books for dealing with illegal immigrants, but most of the laws dealing with going after the businesses and corporations that hire them are routinely ignored. As long as they can continue to operate with impunity, there's always going to be an influx of illegal immigrants.
TlalocW @ 66:
Indeed, It always amazes me on how people concentrate on illegals breaking federal law, yet they ignore the fact that employers paying shit wages to those illegals are also breaking federal laws. I guess that as long as someone wears a flag pin it is A-OK to shit on federal and state labor laws and what not.
>> Being against xenophobia is not the same as being pro-illegal immigration.
Are you claiming that Ceaser Chavez was xenophobic.
Or Walter Mondale who took part in Chavez's protests against illegal immigrant labor.
You can't expect much support for illegal immigrants when that support eventually ends up screwing a big group of americans that are already having a hard time making ends meet.
Is this a surprise to you ?
One of the few issues that i see cons and many liberals coming together around is their opposition to illegal immigrants.
But look at the bright side.
If you are in favor of amnesty for illegals you have the neo-cons and rich corrupt businessmen backing you up.
Given that Texas and much of the American southwest was originally Mexican territory, and many California cities retain their original Spanish names (San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Pedro, Chico, San Juan, etc), it stands to reason there will still be many peole of Mexican/Spanish heritage in Texas and california- But he anglo racist scumbags who turn the immigration' issue into a platform to vent racial hatred of all latinos tells me they are amazingly ignorant of history...
Thom Hartmann on Air America radio is also opposed to illegal immigrants and illegal employers.
Like i said this is one issue that has a ton of opposition that comes from both sides.
mike @ 64:
Bear in mind many on the right are Social Darwinists- they feel the strong survive, the weak don't- such is life. i'll agree, its a cold pholosphy.
Very interesting. I have ever hear of this guy. But all this is pretty intense. This money seems as though it could have been spent more efficiently...or not spent at all!
bob @ 68:
Obviously reading and comprehension is not your forte. And please spare me the straw men, OK?
Jesus tap dancing christ on a pogo stick...
Mr Moderate @ 71:
It is easy being a social Darwinist when one is at the apex of the food chain.
Put them at a playing level and watch them WASPs bitch and moan about how unfair things are....
Mr Moderate @ 69:
Yeah, a lot of people seem to think that California, Montana, Colorado, Arizona, Nuevo Mexico, Luisiana, Florida, Tejas, et al have Latin names by coincidence...
Ram @ 15:
Ask and you shall receive!
Tancredo spitting in the face of AMERICANS!!!
I keep thinking of his constituents, do they applaud when he makes statements like this?
Tandreco should stand on the corner of Commerce and Zarazamora in San Antonio and suggest building the wall around the West Side. Let's see if he gets out alive.
To hell with Tancredo. We should invite the entire country of Mexico to invade the United States. The English language is so.. so England! While we're at it, we should invite China and Russia to invade. To hell with sovereignty. That's incompatible with World Government and the New World Order. The United States of America is so.. colonial period. Let's get rid of it already!
The Dude @ 74:
Louisiana was settled by people speaking a descendant language of Latin, alright, but it was by France, not Spain. It was named by the first settlers after the then-current French monarch, one of the 14 or 15 guys named Louis. Close, but no cigar.
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