151 of 172 people found the following review helpful:
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A powerful book for our time about an important problem for our nation, June 27, 2006
Illegal immigration is one of the biggest problems facing this nation since the terror attacks on 9-11. However, getting Washington D.C. to do anything about it is near impossible.
Actually, this book addresses why illegal immigration is bad for Mexico. Why? It allows the corrupt and rich government of Mexico to ignore reforms to help the majority of their nation. That over looked fact has been bothering this reviewer. While all the free trade and pro-illegal immigration people call the anti-illegal immigration people racists they ignore the fact that the corrupt Mexican goverment is full of crime and oppression. The pro-immigration crowd actually hurts the relatives of the people who come to America.
Tancredo does a great job of telling of the law enforcement problems, the budget problems, and the potential health problems of this huge wave of humanity. Note, the Representative will talk of the great immigration wave of the turn of the 19th Century and how those people had to meet a health screening. Right now there is no health screening for the mass of humanity coming across the border. This nation is asking for a break out of a disease. And Washington does nothing.
Representative Tancredo does a great job giving solutions to the problem. It's quite unfair that illegal immigrants are used to depress the wage scales of working Americans. Employeers should be held criminally responsible for this. If the solutions that Representative Tancredo offers then the USA can control the problem that floods our borders.
If Representative Tancredo solutions are not met then we can look forward to great change in the USA that will not be for the better. We will have a large number of people who will not have loyality to this nation, they have loyality to the customs and traditions of Mexico. And this problem may endanger the future of this nation.
This is a five star book.
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40 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
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Tancredo 2008!, July 7, 2006
For those Americans who do not follow politics, (you know who you are) One voice has stood basically alone on Capital Hill leading the battle against illegal immigration. That lone voice has been assaulted with endless criticism from virtually all fronts, ranging from big business to the liberal media. Thank God Tom Tancredo (R-CO) has not withered from the incessant criticism and in the dominion of gloried statesmen such as Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry, has stood fast for what is RIGHT for America. In his book, IN MORTAL DANGER: THE BATTLE FOR AMERICA'S BORDER AND SECURITY, Tancredo brings readers up to date as to why this battle he wages is so critical for America's future.
America has long held a "re-active" stance on issues, particularly where foreign policy is concern. Tancredo encourages taking "pro-active" measures before it's too late. (And that window of opportunity is rapidly closing).
As little as four years ago, Tom Tancredo was a virtual unknown among capital hill members of the House of Representatives. Today, he has successfully formed the 90+ member Immigration Reform Caucus and has established himself firmly as the leader in this important aspect of future generations.
You will find everything here you expect in a book of this nature. All the relevant statistics are included in frightening detail. But Tancredo goes a great deal further than just filling this book with statistics. He uncovers hidden problems associated with failure to act now to illegal immigration, (bankrupt medical facilities, already over-burdened welfare and education systems, not to mention national security risks) as well as dispelling countless myths associated with it (America can't survive without illegal immigrants, there's nothing we can do to stop it, and that anyone favoring stopping illegals is a bigot).
Tancredo clearly shows that he will not worship at the alter of party politics, as he squarely places a great deal of the blame upon the shoulders of President Bush, for not only failing to take action, but for spouting off about the importance of national security, all the while knowing full well that al-Qaeda operatives are actively breeching our porous southern border! It is also rather ironic that we, as a country and as a government, are preaching about destroying corruption in Middle Eastern governments, all the while promoting corruption within our own southern neighbor by not encouraging reform!
This book doesn't stop with simply detailing the problems. Tancredo offers detailed and effective solutions for saving the America we call home. This is quite possibly, the most valuable and critical book to be published this year!
Monty Rainey
www.juntosociety.com
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123 of 143 people found the following review helpful:
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"A lightening rod is a sentinel", June 15, 2006
Tom Tancredo's book is one of the most important of our generation. He tackles not just the immigration debate and border security, but the root causes of this problem and the system issues behind it. The book devles into history and investigates the "cult of multiculturalism" and the meaning of citizenship. It is much more than just a campaign book, although it very may well launch a presidential bid for Tancredo, it is a weighty treatise on the changing nature of America and what it will take to win this strugle for the very survival of the nation.
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