Tancredo Forgets About Immigration Reform

by: Colorado Pols

Mon Sep 24, 2007 at 09:08:03 AM MDT

We've always wondered why Rep. Tom Tancredo doesn't do more about illegal immigration, since, you know, he's a congressman and all. Apparently the answer is simple: He just forgets.

As The Denver Post reports:

Call it congressional amnesia.

Rep. Tom Tancredo two months ago announced a far- reaching proposal to rewrite immigration laws. Today that plan is missing in action.

The Republican congressman from Littleton never submitted the bill he trumpeted in July, legislation that would severely limit family-based legal immigration, imprison employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants and deny citizenship to babies of illegal immigrants who are born in the U.S.

Tancredo's spokesman said that the congressman and his staff have been busy and that perhaps it just slipped their minds.

"We've been fighting a lot of other fights" on immigration, said Tancredo spokesman Carlos Espinosa. "Are we going back to that? Of course we are."

Tancredo, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, also has been hard to pin down, Espinosa said.

Vote Tancredo for President! He'll solve the immigration problem...unless he forgets.