Tom Tancredo Quotes (59 Quotes)

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.

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.

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

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.

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

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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,

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.

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

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.

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

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,

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.

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.

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.

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,

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

If he, at that point, said, 'I'm going to step down as majority leader,' we would not now be in the position of him being forced to step down,

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

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.

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,

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.

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.

With a disaster this size, no program is sacrosanct, no cost-cutting is off the table, ... Republicans weren't put in office to be satisfied with the size of our government.

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

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

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.

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

Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.

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.

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

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

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

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

Bringing workers out of the shadows is simply another way of saying we should legalize illegal immigrants, ... Yes, we should bring illegal immigrants out of the shadows, and then return them to their home country.

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

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.