Immigration conflagration: Bush's guest-worker plan was a clumsy attempt to pander to Hispanics. It didn't please them, and now border-state conservatives are up in arms.(Dispatches)
American Prospect, The, April, 2004 by Blumenthal, Max
PEOPLE EITHER LOVE TOM TANCREDO, the Republican representative from Colorado's 6th District (home of Columbine High School), or they hate him. But they all agree on one thing: He is a man of character. Indeed, he has defined his political career by his principled stand on immigration. In September 2002, after reading a glowing Denver Post profile of an 18-year-old undocumented immigrant honor student, he reported the student's family to the Immigration and Naturalization Service, forcing the family to go into hiding.
Tancredo's principles have frequently set him against members ...
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