Candidate Positions

Original source: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50657

Responding to a WorldNetDaily report, Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., is demanding the Bush administration fully disclose the activities of an office implementing a trilateral agreement with Mexico and Canada that apparently could lead to a North American union, despite having no authorization from Congress.

Original source: http://www3.whdh.com/news/articles/decision_2008/BO48879/

Global warming: Not convinced human activity has contributed to global warming or that warming is anything more than cyclical. “Certainly, we should pay attention to these changes and study them — but we should refrain from imposing a litany of state, federal and international restrictions.”

Original source: http://freedomfolks.blogspot.com/2007/04/tom-tancredo-one-trick-pony.html

Education: He supports parental control over the education of their children, not government control. He advocates school vouchers and school choice. A parent should be the one who decides on what is the best educational path for their child.

Original source: http://johnedwardspresident08.blogspot.com/2007/04/on-gun-control.html

Lawmaker from the district that includes Columbine High School voted to shield gun-makers and dealers from civil suits, to lift restrictions on gun ownership in the District of Columbia and to ease restrictions at gun shows.

Original source: http://www.teamtancredo.com/issues1.asp

Immigration
There is no doubt that America is facing an illegal immigration crisis. Currently, there are at least 12 million illegal aliens living in America. I am absolutely opposed to amnesty. In addition to rewarding those who broke our laws, amnesties simply do not solve the problem of illegal immigration. The only realistic solution to the problem of illegal immigration is a strategy of attrition, which seeks to reduce the flow of the illegal alien population over time by cutting off the incentives for coming to and staying in America - most importantly by eliminating the jobs magnet. America must also reexamine its legal immigration policies. Since 1990, that number has been roughly one million yearly - and that doesn’t count illegal aliens. America should reduce legal immigration to 250,000 people a year, which will allow the newcomers to assimilate.

“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”

Original source: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll204.xml

Voted against Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act

Original source: http://tancredo.house.gov/issues/issue_righttolife.shtml

Throughout my public career I have always maintained a deeply held conviction that abortion compromises the sanctity of human life. Tragically, our nation has ignored our founding principle that all individuals have a right to life and in doing so has failed to protect the most vulnerable among us, unborn boys and girls. I do not support federal funds going to Planned Parenthood or any other organization that promotes abortion. I will continue to do everything in my power to protect the defenseless, and to end the practice of abortion.