Un legislador de Colorado comparó la ciudad de Miami con "un país tercermundista" y el...

Oh I'm sorry. I didn't want to speak the language of a Third World country. CBS News reports:

[Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO)] a vocal supporter of the anti-illegal immigration movement in the U.S. House, made his initial comments to WorldNetDaily, a conservative online new site, his spokesman Carlos Espinosa said.

"Look at what has happened to Miami. It has become a Third World country. You just pick it up and take it and move it someplace. You would never know you're in the United States of America. You would certainly say you're in a Third World country," Tancredo said.

What was he talking about? He was speaking at an immigration conference in Palm Beach, decrying Miami's "poverty and crime." Specifically, Mr. Tancredo was incensed by:

"I certainly understand and appreciate your need and desire to create the illusion of Miami as a multiethnic 'All American' city," Tancredo wrote. "I can also appreciate that Miami's schools graduate many outstanding students and that the cultural and ethnic diversity of the city offers many advantages to its residents.

"However, it is neither naïve nor insulting to call attention to a real problem that cannot be easily dismissed through politically correct happy talk," Tancredo wrote.

Tancredo said a growing number of Miami residents don't speak English, one of the few things that holds Americans together.

Columnist Ana Menendez, in the Miami Herald, puts Mr. Tancredo's statement into context:

I mean, this is the guy who, after The Denver Post published a report about an illegal immigrant struggling to pay for college, called up the immigration agency to have him deported. The guy who thinks President Bush is going soft. The guy who last year told a radio show that the United States should ''take out'' Islamic holy sites if fundamentalists attacked this country.

''You're talking about bombing Mecca?'' the radio host asked, just to clarify.

''Yeah,'' Thoughtful Counsel responded.

Right.

He said he absolutely stands behind his statements. Defending himself to the Rocky Mountain News, he said that:

But Tancredo said it was Bush who is being naive.

"The tolerance of cultural diversity in a city or a nation is admirable up to a point, but when diversity is worshipped to the detriment of assimilation, it becomes a serious problem that undermines the civic culture that forms the basis for our democratic institutions and the rule of law," he wrote.

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He's best known for campaigning against illegal immigration. But Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Littleton, makes headlines in all sorts of ways:

• September 2006: Tancredo speaks at a South Carolina gathering that critics called "a hate-group event." Tancredo and others dispute the description. But he still draws flak for appearing on a podium with a Confederate flag and joining audience members in singing Dixie.

• September 2005: Tancredo criticizes the crescent-shaped design of a 9/11 memorial to victims of United Airlines Flight 93. He said it resembles the lunar crescent symbol of Islam and could be seen as a "tribute to the hijackers."

Oh yeah, and Tom Tancredo has ties to White Power organizations. In fact, one of his donors is one Fred Elbel, a software engineer and co-chair of the group Defend Colorado Now. Mr. Elbel is best known for his email he distributed to the Sierra Club:

Damned right. I hate 'em all - negroes, wasps, spics, eskimos, jews, honkies, krauts, ruskies, ethopans, pakis, hunkies, pollocks and marxists; there are way too many of them. I'm all for trout, elephants, bacteria, whales, wolves, birds, parrot fish, deciduous foliage and mollusks. Time to rebalance the planet, bleeding heart liberals be damned. [sic]

And then there's the Social Contract Press, run by another of his donors, which publishes articles like this, where diversity is foreseen as causing the dissolution of the lower 48 states.

This is what Colorado voted for? Read more about this pro-racist Republican at tancredowatch.blogspot.com.

So if you don't have a dominant European culture with "white" paradigms, or too much pluralism and not enough assimilation, you're obviously living in a backwater village in Chad. Disgusting.