U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado was the lone Republican presidential candidate to speak at the NAACP convention, and he received a standing ovation for the effort.
On the stage a half-hour earlier than the Democrats, flanked by lecterns with placards for the no-show GOP candidates, Tancredo asked: “Do you think we should wait a few minutes for the other guys to show up? Do they know something I don’t know?”
He used his opening statement to sound off on his favorite issue: “Massive, uncontrolled, illegal immigration.”
“Why is this happening? Because the federal government refuses to do its job,” he said.
He called amnesty for illegal immigrants “a slap in the face to everyone who came here the right way.”
Tancredo said the wages of black workers suffer because of illegal immigration.
“I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know,” he said. “Perhaps no other group has been more adversely affected by this crisis than the African-American community.”
