Democrats, he said, don’t care because they see illegal immigrants as future voters while Republicans see them as future cheap labor.
By Stephen Beale
Union Leader Correspondent
Bedford – The most important domestic issue in the 2008 presidential election is not health care, education or the economy, but immigration, which has an impact on all of the other issues and is tied to the survival of the America nation, U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo said yesterday.
Tancredo, R-Colo., said neither party wants to the address the problem of illegal immigration. Democrats, he said, don’t care because they see illegal immigrants as future voters while Republicans see them as future cheap labor.
Illegal immigrants may save their employers dollars in lower wages, but they cost the country billions in health care, affect public schools through bilingual education and make up more than a quarter of the population in federal prisons, according to Tancredo.Even the environment is harmed the traffic of illegal immigrants flowing across the southern border, but the issue has been ignored there too, he said. “I don’t ever see the Sierra Club going down there and saying, ‘Look at what is happening to this pristine desert,'” Tancredo said in a “Politics and Eggs” talk at the Bedford Village Inn.