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Opinion: Mailbag: Is Swati Pandey soft on border-wall-hopping terrorists, a shill for anti-immigrant zealots or both?

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Two views of Swati Pandey’s recent Opinion Daily ‘Tancredo moves the lethal center.’

Citing that hypothetical but remarkably popular suicide bomber from Mexico, Richard Eide says one o’ these days...

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Regarding your article on Tancredo’s politics about illegal immigration, everything you said, and everything anybody else has said all goes out the window the moment we have a suicide bombing in this country. If the bomber is found to have come across the southern border the argument is over. The wall will go up ASAP along with the military on the border. Congress will be down there digging the fence post holes themselves, anything to keep their jobs in the face of a furious voter revolt. One suicide bomber and the immigration battle is over.

The tersely named ‘Raj,’ on the other hand, feels Pandey is just helping Tancredo demonize poor undocumented workers:

‘But if Tancredo’s ad — and Barack Obama’s speculation — are to be believed, immigration will be a major issue in 2008, along with terrorism. And recent numbers suggest that voters are leaning toward tough-on-illegal-immigrant positions.’ Swati Pandey needs to do more research before printing this garbage. This is not what we heard from the voters in Virginia and Kentucky two states where the Dems won handily instead of being a mouthpiece for anti-immigratn folks. For a reality check read Anita Kumar’s article in Washington Post... Swati’s is garbage in garbage out, a kind of reporter that Tancredo relies on to spread his lies. Regards Raj

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