TOM TANCREDO BARRED FROM SPEAKING AT RHODE ISLAND UNIVERSITY

Youth for Western Civilization (YWC) is striking out left and right, and along with them ex-Congressperson Tom Tancredo. Providence College in Rhode Island did one thing that hasn’t happened to YWC yet, however. Not only did they block Tancredo from speaking at the college, but they also say that YWC is not even an accredited group. In other words, they won’t be! Meanwhile, Tancredo will instead speak tomorrow at the Pawtucket VFW, courtesy of a group called Rhode Islanders for Immigration Law Enforcement (RIILE) hold their meetings. To give you an idea of how wacked out this group can be, they once got a little attention because one of its members overheard someone in his plumbing store speaking Spanish to a friend and thought he could demand to see his Social Security card! Well, we want to thank YWC for putting RIILE on our radar, and hopefully, just like the Nazis they are, before long people will have to go to a meeting point to find out the location of future events put on by all these sick anti-immigration groups! Of course, Tancredo, YWC and the lot of them are denying they are racists, and of course, they are not beating the charge. Now it seems we have gone beyond calling them Nazis, and start treating like them.

Associated Press

PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Providence College has blocked a campus speech by former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo, a vocal opponent of illegal immigration.

The Roman Catholic college said in a statement Monday that the student group that planned to host Tancredo, a conservative Republican who ran for president rather than seek a sixth term in Congress, was not officially sanctioned.

It also said Tancredo’s stance on illegal immigration “directly contrasts” with Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence, a member of the college’s Board of Trustees.

Tobin called on federal immigration authorities last summer to halt mass raids and to grant conscientious objector status to agents who refuse to participate in such raids.

Terry Gorman, founder of Rhode Islanders for Immigration Law Enforcement, said the student group—Youth for Western Civilization—contacted him after its bid to host Tancredo was denied.

The organization will host Tancredo on Wednesday at the Pawtucket VFW building where it normally meets. Gorman said Tancredo would speak that same day at the gates of the college.

“They called me and asked if there was a way that I could provide a forum for him to speak,” Gorman said.

Tancredo briefly sought the Republican nomination for president but dropped his poorly funded campaign in December 2007. His speech earlier this month at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was interrupted by a student protest.

Tancredo was elected to Congress in 1998 and was known for his strident views on illegal immigration. He proposed an unsuccessful bill that included limiting citizenship to children born to at least one parent who was also a U.S. citizen or lawful resident. And he once referred to Miami as a “third-world country.”

Gorman said the college was being hypocritical because it has hosted politicians, including Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., with pro-choice views. But college spokeswoman Patricia Vieira said those speakers were brought to campus to speak on topics other than abortion.

Tancredo’s speech was to have focused on illegal immigration.

“If a similar request to host a speaker on this topic is made in a future semester, the College will encourage and facilitate a format that allows for multiple points of view to be expressed,” the school said in a statement.