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Tom Tancredo is a former congressman from Colorado who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. In 2010, Tancredo ran for governor of Colorado as a member of the Constitution Party and placed second to Democrat and then-Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper.

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Tom Tancredo
stated on September 19, 2016 in a fundraising email :

Says eight Americans died in a knife attack at a Minnesota mall.

By Alan Gathright • September 20, 2016
Tom Tancredo
stated on August 8, 2015 in a Breitbart article:

Between 2008 and 2014, "criminal aliens accounted for 38 percent of all murder convictions in the five states of California, Texas, Arizona, Florida and New York."

By Jon Greenberg • August 17, 2015
Tom Tancredo
stated on October 9, 2007 in Detroit:

"For every single illegal immigrant family in this country, it costs $20,000 — it costs us $20,000; $20,000 in infrastructural costs. They pay about $10,000 in taxes."

By David DeCamp • December 11, 2007
Tom Tancredo
stated on November 20, 2007 in Fox News interview:

"I spend a lot of time in Iowa, and believe it or not, in Ottumwa, Iowa, this is the heartland, the newspaper, the regular newspaper for Ottumwa, Iowa, is (a) bilingual newspaper."

By Amy Hollyfield • November 29, 2007
Tom Tancredo
stated on November 13, 2007 in an interview on CNN.:

"There was a report that came out from the FBI – a warning, not a report ... saying that, in fact, al-Qaida was planning to attack malls during the Christmas holidays."

By Lissa August • November 5, 2007

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