GOD DOES NOT PLAY DICE WITH THE UNIVERSE:

Illegal labor aided Tancredo: Workers say they redid basement for immigration critic (Michael Riley, September 19, 2002, Denver Post)

In a fiery speech on the House floor late Wednesday, Tancredo said he didn't know whether the drywallers were legal immigrants.

"We know there are between 9 and 13 million people who are here illegally. I haven't the foggiest idea how many people I may have hired in the past as taxi drivers, as waiters, waitresses, home improvement people. I haven't the foggiest idea how many of those people may have been here illegally, and it is not my job to ask them."

In the speech, Tancredo also defended his recent stance in the case of Jesus Apodaca, an Aurora honor student who complained publicly that because he was an illegal immigrant, he would have to pay out-of-state college tuition.

After Tancredo read Apodaca's story in The Denver Post, he called the Immigration and Naturalization Service and asked that Apodaca be deported.

The Apodacas pose no threat, he said in the House speech, but in trying to personify the immigration issue through them, "what you do is ignore another face of illegal immigration that is much nastier," he said.

"It is the face of murder. It is the face of infiltration into the country of people who are coming to do us great harm."

This is just beautiful. Congressman Tancredo is the flavor-of-the-month on the Know-Nothing Right, with his race-baiting invective against the shadowy immigrant menace. Funny, Tancredo doesn't sound like a Clovis name to us. Posted by Orrin Judd at September 19, 2002 4:30 PM