XAVIER ZARAGOZA/The Daily Dispatch
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"We can argue out a guest-worker program later," Tancredo said.
Tancredo told the group at the Horseshoe Cafe Friday that Americans want a secure border and an end to illegal immigration.
For years people here have been frustrated about illegal immigration.
"Am I the only one in congress who cares about this?" he said.
Tancredo said there are two Arizona senators, and one he would not waste his time calling.
But he asked people to call Jon Kyl and to tell him that the nation needs enforcement first on the border.
Bay Buchanan, Pat Buchanan's sister, was touring with Tancredo across country, urging the message of enforcement first.
"We all know that a guest-worker program is nothing more than amnesty," she said.
"If we get amnesty, you can thank the Republican Party," she said. "We are holding the Republican Party responsible."
Tancredo said that the United States is hooked on cheap labor as much as Mexico is hooked on the $20 billion of remittances that Mexicans send home.
"They need to find a way to improve the economy of their country so that it can improve the lives of their people," Tancredo said about the Mexican government.
At the end of his talk, Al Garza, the second in command for the Minuteman Project in Cochise County, presented Tancredo with his own Minuteman identification card.
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