{"id":282613,"date":"2010-02-05T13:10:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T18:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=75902"},"modified":"2010-02-05T13:10:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T18:10:14","slug":"tancredo-tea-party-movement-can-learn-from-anti-immigrant-amnesty-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/282613","title":{"rendered":"Tancredo: Tea Party Movement Can Learn From Anti-Immigrant Amnesty Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE &#8212; Former congressman Tom Tancredo is the only former federal officeholder working the rooms at the National Tea Party Convention, and he <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/WN\/tea-party-fireworks-speaker-tom-tancredo-rips-mccain\/story?id=9751718\">followed up a fiery speech<\/a> last night with a short address today at a breakout session on immigration run by Numbers USA. He informed a crowd of older-skewing activists that Tea Party-style activism helped sink immigration compromises in the Bush era.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I faced two big problems in Congress,&#8221; said Tancredo, &#8220;the Democrats and the Republicans. &#8230; The only way we got anything done was to go around Congress.&#8221; Tancredo pointed at his audience. &#8220;This kind of thing translates.&#8221; By the end of his tenure in Congress, said Tancredo, &#8220;I had to put on my tennis shoes and sprint to the floor to introduce an immigration amendment, because everyone else was doing it.&#8221;<span id=\"more-75902\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Roy Beck, the executive director of Numbers USA, made the case that stopping illegal immigration was the key to solving most of America&#8217;s economic problems. &#8220;We imported the health care crisis!&#8221; said Beck. &#8220;Every year we import one to one and a half million immigrants, and most of them go on welfare.&#8221; Beck provided cards with graphs that purported to show how illegal immigration was at the root of America&#8217;s biggest problems, and proposed five fixes: Rep. Phil Gingrey&#8217;s (R-Ga.) HR 878, which would ban chain immigration; Rep. Bob Goodlatte&#8217;s (R-Va.) HR 2305, which would end the lottery; Rep. Heath Shuler&#8217;s (D-N.C.) SAVE Act (HR 3308); employment visas; and a SAVE system in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE &#8212; Former congressman Tom Tancredo is the only former federal officeholder working the rooms at the National Tea Party Convention, and he followed up a fiery speech last night with a short address today at a breakout session on immigration run by Numbers USA. He informed a crowd of older-skewing activists that Tea Party-style [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}