Tom Tancredo Quotations

Because the worst of all worlds is when you pretend like you have an immigration policy, you make coming into the United States without our permission illegal, and then you actually don't enforce it.

The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation.

To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.

Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.

Now how many people in their heart of hearts in that community want to see the demise of this country? How many would cheer, not out loud maybe, but in their heart when things like 9/11 occur and I'll tell you; it's a majority among them.

We can control our borders, we just choose not too.

They view massive immigration as a massive infusion of potential voters for the Democratic Party, and therefore will do nothing, absolutely nothing to stop that flow of legal or illegal entrance into the country.

Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.

We have terrorists coming into the country both through our Northern and Southern borders.

I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.

You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.

The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.

In fact, the place where we have indicted more terrorists or potential terrorists, is our Northern border.

He can fight terrorists overseas, but he leaves our borders so they can come in here and do their thing.

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.

The right to kill another person is not a right that I would agree with and support.

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

You know, I'm a Republican, I'm a Conservative, I voted for George Bush.

If we in fact were to begin enforcing the law against people who are hiring people who are here illegally, we would go a long way towards eliminating the problem.

The issue of remittances where we have millions of Mexicans working in the United States sending back dollars. He said they send back 10 billion dollars a year.

This issue, if not addressed, leaves any President, including George Bush, open to the criticism that they are essentially ignoring the destruction of the nation and I believe that with all my heart.

We have to fight radical Islam wherever it exists. It's in Afghanistan, it's in Saudi Arabia, throughout the Middle-East in big numbers and it's in the United States.

We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.

unsuitable for paying appropriate tribute to the heroes of Flight 93 or the ensuing American struggle against radical Islam that their last historic act and the 'Let's roll' effort has come to symbolize.

Until President Bush tells us he is willing to do everything possible to stop illegal immigrants from crossing our borders -- including the commitment of military assets to the task,

There is a sense that there's blood in the water and when that happens around here, the piranhas come rushing,

There are people in the administration, and in Mexico, and in Congress, who believe that we should do away with borders entirely.

Many of the Mexican officials have talked about this Matricula card openly and stated that it was their way of getting around the Amnesty problem.

Please think about national security, ... People are coming across our borders to do very bad things to us.

If we can stop the employment of people who are here illegally, a huge part of this problem goes away.

I am intent on making this immigration issue part of the national debate during that Presidential election... and I will do that any way I can.

But believe me, ... it's just the tip of the proverbial iceberg in terms of the sort of personnel shifting that needs to go on.

From my point of view, it was a poison pill in the bill.

I don't trust FEMA any more than the agencies in the state of Louisiana.

I don't think I've ever been more worried about our prospects and our ability to retain control,

There is a general agreement about the fact that citizenship in this country should not be bestowed on people who are the children of folks who come into this country illegally,

It begins to create a crack in your credibility, and when that happens it is enormously difficult to seal, ... There is a sense that there is blood in the water, and when that happens the piranhas come from everywhere.

I want you to ask your local elected officials I don't care if it's the county commissioners or the governor What are you going to do about this issue,'

It has nothing to do with race, ethnicity or country of origin

The appropriateness of the design has been questioned by many people because of the crescent's prominent use as a symbol in Islam - and the fact that the hijackers were radical Islamists,

We are in this sort of knee-jerk reaction mode.

When the president tries to make us believe that open borders equals national security he loses all credibility.

We should never, ever, use some foreign government's card to determine whether someone has legal status here in the United States.

The government of Mexico is a co-conspirator in the smuggling of immigrants. This is how we reward them, with helicopters and ways to tap phones? . . . Somebody just has a lot more trust than they should have in Mexico's ability to be a good neighbor.

With hurricane relief adding to our budget deficit, I'm open to almost any spending cut that (has) been proposed, and I'm encouraged that at least some Democrats are coming around on fiscal responsibility, ... But how would Udall's bill change anything that we're doing now?

Bringing workers out of the shadows is simply another way of saying we should legalize illegal immigrants. That's amnesty for people who have broken the law.

Even though I'm a critic of Tom DeLay, I think this is pretty much a witch hunt.

enlist the aid of every organization out there to alert the general public of everything going on.

The timing of the survey's start and early dismissal, and the DHS gag order and stonewalling of Judicial Watch's request, suggest that the administration is playing politics with border security data. I hope that this is not the case.

is reaching critical mass in this country. Something will happen to force this nation to come to grips with this problem.

Now he's had to resign, he's been forced down, ... If he'd done this before, he could have taken on this guy (the district attorney) seeking to prosecute DeLay.

You should never ever, ever reward people for breaking the law.

The best thing to do is to see what we can accomplish,

The administration's continued kowtowing to big business defies political sense,

It's important to the security of this country.

It was never meant to actually allow people who are here illegally to achieve legal status for their children by having them born here.

Slowly, the president's team is coming to realize that they have a political revolt on their hands. And, it's no longer just the conservative base that's angry about illegal immigration - there's widespread discontent about our broken system from coast to coast, from left to right.

If you're a foreign national and you're here legally, you have something called a green card or a VISA or a stamp on your passport.

If you tell people they will be benefit from coming into the United States illegally, not by waiting in line like everybody else, they will come.

You can put some lipstick on the pig, but it's still a pig. ... Nobody's going to go home, he knows it, everybody knows it. It is an amnesty concentrate on the enforcement, Mr. President. Concentrate on the enforcement or it won't get anywhere in Congress,

A guest worker program would be an open invitation to potential terrorists. They could enter the country legally, get a job, and use the program as cover. One of the terrorists who blew up the garage of the World Trade Center in 1993 did just that under an earlier program.

You will find people by the millions, frankly, will return to their countries of origin, ... If they do not have a job and do not have access to social-service benefits, there really aren't any option.

The Matricula Consular is a card issued by foreign governments, not just Mexico, although in this case they're of primary concern.

Look, my friends, if I'm a racist, this doesn't mean that I hate brown people

Look at what has happened to Miami. It has become a Third World country. You just pick it up and take it and move it someplace. You would never know you're in the United States of America. You would certainly say you're in a Third World country

People who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House,

The problem with much of the debate over this issue is that we confuse two separate matters: immigration policy (how many people we admit) and immigrant policy (how we treat people who are already here). What our nation needs is a pro-immigrant policy of low immigration. A pro-immigrant policy of low immigration can reconcile America's traditional welcome for newcomers with the troubling consequences of today's mass immigration. It would enable us to be faithful and wise stewards of America's interests while also showing immigrants the respect they deserve as future Americans.

If, in fact, one cannot understand English, and at the point in time that one comes to vote, one has to be given a ballot in a different language, does that not mean that one is also most likely unable to understand the debate that occurred prior to the decision one makes to vote?