Tancredo Says Some In Government Want Open Borders
by Chad Groening
September 3, 2004
(AgapePress) - A Colorado congressman who has led the charge for better border protection says he doubts even a terrorist attack on the U.S. Congress itself would change the minds of some of his colleagues about the need to shut down the flow of illegal aliens across America's southern border.With the Republican National Convention over, members of Congress are now ready to take their cases for re-election back home. However, Susan Tully of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, does not expect to hear many congressional representatives pushing for better border security in their stump speeches
"I really don't think that Congress is going to get serious about securing the border until they find that they are the target of the next terrorist attack," Tully says. "If the plane that hit the Pentagon had hit one of the congressional houses instead of American citizens, [Congress] would have gotten serious about securing this country."
But Congressman Tom Tancredo says he doubts even a terrorist attack will change some of the minds in the U.S. government. "You have to understand that there are people who are committed to the elimination of the concept of nation-states, for all intents and purposes. There are people who are so committed to that," he says, "that a terrorist attack doesn't affect that theory."
The Colorado Republican, who chairs the House Immigration Reform Caucus, is hoping that many of the "open borders" advocates will be defeated in November. He says some members of Congress appear to be committed to the elimination of national borders altogether -- people who aspire to a world that is not "encumbered with things like nation-states and loyalties and patriotism, and stuff like that... They think that's where we've got to go, and that we can handle terrorism once we get there."
But Tancredo disagrees, and he notes that over 70 percent of the American people support the idea of tightening the country's borders. He says it is his hope that the voters will make their opinions known at the polls this fall.
