Tag: Immigration
Mormon newspaper advocates for protecting rights of illegal immigrants
Salt Lake City’s Deseret News has long been a voice of conservatism in the West — and for good reason seeing as the paper...
Colin Powell says GOP moving too far to the right —...
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell Sunday said the Republican Party needs to support policies that would enable illegal Mexican immigrants to achieve legal...
Growing up illegal in Colorado: Not just a Mexican thing
Immigration. If you’ve wondered lately if it is possible to read about immigration without encountering the name “Tom Tancredo” or the phrase “sanctuary city”,...
Report finds immigration detainee legal rights widely neglected
The rights of detainees held on immigration charges are neglected, including fundamental rights like the right to legal counsel. Although a network of organizations...
‘Anchor baby’ debate: 14th Amendment born of GOP policies
We’ve all heard the phrase “anchor baby” by now. Some say the phrase is demeaning and racist. Others say that, at the least, it...
Vital undocumented workers victims of wage theft, shifting laws
Jacinta Gonzalez, an organizer with the Congress of Day Laborers in New Orleans, tells a story about the abuse of workers rebuilding the city after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. She once met a man who went to his employer’s house to demand payment for his labor on a construction site after the employer stiffed him of his dues. The man’s boss came at him, swinging a hammer. The worker immediately called the police.
Tea partiers rally in Arizona for greater border security
This weekend, hundreds of tea party activists gathered at the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona to protest illegal immigration. The crowd yelled “Hey, don’t come...
Tancredo: ‘Nice fellow’ Maes should drop out of guv race
American Constitutional Party candidate Tom Tancredo fired back at Colorado Republican nominee for governor Dan Maes Wednesday, calling on the brand new nominee to do the right thing now that he has won the nomination and withdraw from the race. After winning the GOP primary Tuesday, Maes called on Tancredo, a right wing icon in the state, to withdraw his third party bid for governor. Tancredo told the Colorado Independent he was having none of it.
Colorado GOP nightmare: The Tank Tancredo in it to win it
After a reported on-air face off with state Republican Party leader Dick Wadhams, who has struggled to lead in this anti-incumbent tea party fueled election season, Tom Tancredo announced he is not waiting till noon today for embattled GOP gubernatorial candidates Dan Maes and Scott McInnis to agree to step out of the race after the August 10 primary. The "Tank" told the Denver Post Monday morning that his mind is made up, that Maes and McInnis will not agree to his terms-- to exit the race if polls show they trail Democrat John Hickenlooper after the primary-- so Tancredo is now running for governor as an American Constitution Party candidate.
Video: Tancredo says U.S. last hope of western world
Tom Tancredo said on Saturday the United States is the last hope for the Western world after the fall of Europe to "Islamasization."
"Why is it so important, why does everyone have to explain the importance of having other people come to keep aspects of their culture but attack our desire to retain our own?" Tancredo asked the audience while speaking the Conservative Western Summit.
Tancredo was part of a host of guest speakers inlcuding Michele Bauchmann, Michelle Malkin and other talk-radio-regulars speaking to a crowded ballroom at the summit hosted by the Centenial Insitute and 710 KNUS.