Tom Tancredo Hired Illegal Laborers to Renovate His McMansion

[Sofiyya 1,687]

I didn't report the thread. Have to blame someone else for that. Sorry!

Shutting it down for becoming boring and redundant would be understandable.

You made the same assumption about me posting late to the thread. I was out with the wife all day yesterday. It is the weekend, after all.

I didn't assume anything about why you posted late. Believe me, I wasn't waiting around for you.

Edited December 3, 2007 by Green-eyed girl

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I wanna know why Steven asked me to point out the fluff, yet never commented on it....

You called it a puff piece...meaning that there's nothing to the story....then marked up the OP with a red crayon and expect me to take you seriously. Let me know when you can articulate in your words why you think the OP has no substance.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I didn't assume anything about why you posted late. Believe me, I wasn't waiting around for you.

Really?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Here for the sake of fluff challenged....I've edited the piece down to the nitty gritty facts relevant to the title of this post:

When Tancredo hired a construction crew to transform his drab basement into a high-tech pleasure den in October 2001, however, he did not express concern that only two of its members spoke English. Nor did he bother to check the workers’ documentation to see if they were legal residents of the United States. Had Tancredo done so, he would have learned that most of the crew consisted of undocumented immigrants, or “criminal aliens” as he likes to call them. Instead, Tancredo paid the crew $60,000 for its labor and waited innocently for the completion of his elaborate entertainment complex.

During the renovation process, two illegal workers hired by Tancredo were alerted to his reputation for immigrant bashing. They went straight to the Denver Post to complain. Tancredo “doesn't want us here, but he'll take advantage of our sweat and our labor,” one of the workers complained to the Post on September 19, 2002. “It's just not right.”

The Post report momentarily threw Tancredo on the defensive. In a fiery speech soon after the story’s publication, Tancredo blamed his foibles on the INS. “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,” he boomed from the House floor. “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.” Then defiance gave way to vitriol as the congressman dubbed undocumented immigrants, “the face of murder.”

Only days before the Post’s story appeared, Tancredo had personally reported an honor student profiled in the Denver Post to the INS because the 14-year-old was not a legal resident of the United States. The stunt forced the boy’s family to go into hiding. Fortunately for Tancredo, the ensuing revelations of his hiring of illegal labor fell below the radar of the national media, allowing his anti-immigrant crusade to proceed unabated.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

I didn't assume anything about why you posted late. Believe me, I wasn't waiting around for you.

Really?

Really. Nothing there says I was waiting for you. You just happened to be that guy. I certainly wasn;t wondering "Dayum! Where is Six? Out with his wife, or what?"

Nope, didn't happen.

Here for the sake of fluff challenged....I've edited the piece down to the nitty gritty facts relevant to the title of this post:

When Tancredo hired a construction crew to transform his drab basement into a high-tech pleasure den in October 2001, however, he did not express concern that only two of its members spoke English. Nor did he bother to check the workers’ documentation to see if they were legal residents of the United States. Had Tancredo done so, he would have learned that most of the crew consisted of undocumented immigrants, or “criminal aliens” as he likes to call them. Instead, Tancredo paid the crew $60,000 for its labor and waited innocently for the completion of his elaborate entertainment complex.

During the renovation process, two illegal workers hired by Tancredo were alerted to his reputation for immigrant bashing. They went straight to the Denver Post to complain. Tancredo “doesn't want us here, but he'll take advantage of our sweat and our labor,” one of the workers complained to the Post on September 19, 2002. “It's just not right.”

The Post report momentarily threw Tancredo on the defensive. In a fiery speech soon after the story’s publication, Tancredo blamed his foibles on the INS. “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,” he boomed from the House floor. “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.” Then defiance gave way to vitriol as the congressman dubbed undocumented immigrants, “the face of murder.”

Only days before the Post’s story appeared, Tancredo had personally reported an honor student profiled in the Denver Post to the INS because the 14-year-old was not a legal resident of the United States. The stunt forced the boy’s family to go into hiding. Fortunately for Tancredo, the ensuing revelations of his hiring of illegal labor fell below the radar of the national media, allowing his anti-immigrant crusade to proceed unabated.

Since this is a hit piece and not even good journalism, the "facts" are highly disputable.

[Mags 112]

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