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During a May 4 Washington, D.C., forum sponsored by the Latino Coalition, Representative Chris Cannon (R-Utah), a congressional point man for the Bush administration's illegal immigrant amnesty scheme, suggested that fellow Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo (Colo.) "ought to reconsider his membership in the Republican Party," reported Denver's Rocky Mountain News.
While Rep. Tancredo, like most politicians, has a lot to answer for (such as his puzzling support for the Iranian Mujahaddin al-Kalq, a Marxist terrorist group), his stance on immigration reform and border control has been sound and commendable. He has clashed repeatedly with the Bush administration over its proposed amnesty for illegal immigrants, and been pointedly rebuked by the White House on more than a few occasions.
By way of contrast, Rep. Cannon's relationship with the "Reconquista Lobby"--foundation-funded, open-borders groups like the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) and La Raza--is close kindred to treason.
In March 2003, Cannon helped create the U.S.-Mexico Political Caucus. In a June 6, 2002 speech to a gathering of MALDEF, where he received the group's ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Immigration reformers not "true" republicans?(INSIDER REPORT)