Tancredo insults Jeb Bush, the city of Miami

[Joe Biden 2020]

In an article by www.poltics1.com, Tom Tancredo said the city of Miami, Florida looks like a "Third World" country.  Gov. Jeb Bush and many other Floridians have demanded an apology from Tancredo, but Tancredo refuses to back down and even is implying that Jeb Bush is naive.

If Tancredo had any hopes whatsoever of winning the GOP nomination in 2008, that just got drowned in the waters off South Beach.

What do you think?  Should Tom Tancredo apologize, or does his remarks have merit? Discuss.

[Joe Biden 2020]

He is certainly committing political suicide with those comments.  He is a thorn in the side of the Republican party.  Hopefully, his constituents will wise up and kick him out of office in 2008.

[Joe Biden 2020]

In the past, periods of massive immigration are followed by periods during which immigration is slowed down in reaction.  I think this is necessary to allow society to absorb the previous wave of immigrants.

I am ambivalent about the immigration issue.  I think your obvious support for breaking the law is wrong.  Clearly, we can't deport 12 million people, but I think that any amnesty has to be coupled with effective controls to give us back control over who comes in.

The American people will be willing to let quite a number of people in, if they come legally.  The laws now are a tangled mess and need to be changed, but that doesn't mean that we should have to accept anybody who shows up on our borders.  We have a right to say no to people.  That's what you and the other liberals seem to miss.

Its really not about support for breaking the law.  Though some of the controls and barriers we have on legal immigration from certain areas is a major contributing factor and makes the law breaking more understandable.

Those who are here illegally are in part a drain on our system, no question about that.  We obviously can't deport all of them, or even more than a small %.  The biggest problems other than that which is caused by illegal immigration is exploitation by employers as the fact we don't know who many of these people crossing the border are.  We do need more to secure the border, no question, but we also need a realistic approach of what to do with those already here.  From a full scale prespective from simple morality and human rights, financial impact as well as from a security prespective.  We need to adress all those issues in order to deal with the immigration issue in the most effective manner.  The Senate plan is what deals with all these issues most effectivley.  It might not be perfect, and some circumstances isn't always fair, but we need a atarting point, and something that deals with all sides of the issue, not something that deals with only one portion of the issue, and puts those already here even further into the underground, to make them even more unknown, which is the most dangerous, the most expoitive as well as the largest financial burdern to us.

Wow, for once, I actually agree with your entire post.