{"article":{"id":202983,"heading":"Tom Tancredo's grandfather was an illegal alien","author":"Repost","created":"2007-07-11 14:41:52","modified":"2007-07-15 22:24:27","last_modified":"Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:24:27","article":"<p>I heard Tancredo speak at a public forum in Denison, Iowa, a month ago. He included an anecdote that reveals just how two-faced he is. He said his grandfather came to this country as a young boy in the 19th century and passed through Ellis Island, an act he believes makes his grandfather's immigration legal. <br><br> Tancredo said his grandfather came here from Italy and was not sponsored, but a woman whom his grandfather did not know saw him there and pinned her name on his lapel, indicating that she was his sponsor. That act was enough for the boy to gain admittance to this country. After he left Ellis Island, Tancredo said, his grandfather never again saw the woman. The boy eventually made his way halfway across America. <br><br> Under Tancredo's proposed laws for handling immigrants, had they existed in the 19th century, Tancredo's grandfather would have been turned back at Ellis Island and returned to Italy, and today the congressman would be living in Italy, not Colorado.  <br><br> There are reasonable and sensible ways to handle our country's immigration problems. Tancredo's ways aren't among them. <br>  <br> <\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/letters\/la-le-tuesday10.1jul10,0,6152632.story?coll=la-news-comment-letters","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"by GREGG KNOWLES from Bakerfield","numcomment":4,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2007\/07\/202983.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":203003,"heading":"SOS\/MMP","article":"SOS\/MMP should be outrage at tancredo! why they are not? ","author":"V","parent_id":202983,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2007-07-11 21:44:51","modified":"2007-07-11 21:44:51","fileurl":""},{"id":203005,"heading":"the past","article":"...Tancredo\u2019s grandfather, Joe Tancredo, was 9 when he came to the United States as an orphan in 1894.\r\n\r\nJoe Tancredo\u2019s grandmother in New York  couldn\u2019t care for the child and attempted to send him to someone in Iowa, but the boy was sent to New York City by mistake. He would have been deported back to Italy, but, with the assistance of strangers...\r\n\r\n","author":"V","parent_id":202983,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2007-07-11 21:57:15","modified":"2013-11-11 00:49:08","fileurl":""},{"id":203044,"heading":"Deport Tancredo!","article":"so anti-evolutionist, screwball-nutjob, tancredo has ancestors who were illegals?!\r\n\r\nsounds like a classic case of self-hatred to me. i mean just look at him for crissakes!","author":"hypocrite patrol","parent_id":202983,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2007-07-13 13:44:32","modified":"2007-07-13 13:44:32","fileurl":""},{"id":203117,"heading":"To V","article":"because he is white privileged male. ","author":"Mr. T","parent_id":202983,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2007-07-15 22:26:26","modified":"2007-07-15 22:26:26","fileurl":""}]}