Tancredo to Pope: Bug off!

 Rep. Tom Tancredo – who vied for the Republican presidential nomination to make illegal immigration a priority issue – suggested in a House speech yesterday that Pope Benedict XVI is encouraging Latin Americans to come to the U.S. to bolster flagging membership in the Catholic Church.

The pontiff, asked by reporters on his flight to the U.S. Tuesday if he would address Hispanic immigration, said the U.S. must do “everything possible to fight … all forms of violence so that immigrants may lead dignified lives.”

About 40 percent of the 70 million Catholics in the U.S. are Hispanic…

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Tancredo, a former Catholic, told House colleagues, “I would like to know what part of our lax immigration policy is considered ‘violent.’ I fail to see how accepting more refugees than any other nation while providing free health care, free education, free housing and free social service benefits to millions of illegal aliens in this country is any way ‘degrading’ to them or ‘undignified.’”