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p> Not since talk show host and Republican water boy carrier Hugh Hewitt disparaged Tom Tancredo for advocating the bombing of Muslim sites if Muslims attacked American cities has such far flung idiocy against Tancredo been aired ("Tancredo's Dubious Allies," Jan. 16). As an embarrassment to President Bush for taking the part of the American people regarding the out-of-control illegal alien invasion across the southern border, Tancredo has been an outsider to the rubber-chicken circuit Republicans for years. Tancredo's "tough stands on immigration reform" mean closing the border to the chaotic, crime-ridden and overwhelming onslaught of millions of illegal aliens. This position now is "controversial" in delicate Republican circles. The article's bizarre attack on the Federation for Immigration Reform as pro-abortion has nothing to do with FAIR's activities and goals, nor is there anything about abortion on its website. Would the author also criticize the Catholic Church for being pro-abortion, since liberal pro-abortion Queen Nancy Pelosi had celebratory Masses held in her honor for being elected House speaker? FAIR documents the billions of dollars in yearly financial costs of illegal aliens in this country, something Republican elites don't care about, since it's unlikely their kids will attend schools where no English is spoken, or be turned away from emergency rooms bankrupted by mandated free care to illegal aliens, or suffer from a stolen Social Security number, or get into a car accident with an uninsured illegal alien driving without a license, or face prison systems overrun with criminal illegal aliens, or deal with the attempted slaughter of law enforcement officers by illegals. No, these experiences by Americans don't touch the Republican elites, but Tancredo dares to cut through the political blandishments of the PR-driven political parties on this issue, and so Republican elites have turned him -- and by extension, the American people -- into pariahs. br> -- Caroline Miranda br> North Hollywood, California /p>

The open borders wing of the Republican Party can't stand the idea of immigration enforcement. Tom Tancredo and FAIR only advocate a return to the immigration policies of pre-1965 when Ted Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson blew a hole in our laws.

p>I'm not surprised that people like you will say this, since you continue to defend this worthless waste of a President whose primary allegiance is to open borders. I could go on, but I'll leave it at that. People who support open borders are not patriots. br> -- Brian Hassler br> San Diego, California /p>

RE: "Tancredo's Dubious Allies" -- This blather illustrates one of the principal reasons for the Republican defeat in 2006 and why it will suffer another huge defeat in 2008.

p>Incidentally, sourcing Jason Riley's opinion as the basis for The Prowler's

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