How did he insult Miami, by telling the truth? Recent articles show that Miami is nothing less than a war zone of Illegal/Criminal aliens. If someone would shine a spotlight on the city people would be shocked at the crime. I know people who worked construction in Florida every year, now there is no amount of money that will get them to even visit, much less work there.

It has became the NYC of a few years ago when the primary announcement in ad's for over the road truck drivers was 'No NYC' runs. A lot of drivers would still quit their job before they would deliver in NYC and it's getting that bad for area's of Miami, since they ran there when you seldom arrived with your load, the criminals would cut the locks off and rob the truck as you drove through the city. You stop and say anything, you're dead meat.

That fracas at the U of M /FIU game sure got his attention

I think Mr. McClure is being short-sighted and very nieve. Tancredo has identified a clear problem and proposed a solution(like it or not)--McClure has no alternative, just name-calling.
Tancredo is clearly a Michael Savage republican--borders, language and culture. I see nothing wrong with these three goals. A country has a responsibility for knowing who is coming in and going out or it ceases to be an entity. McClure offers no constructive critism, no alternative idea, just name calling("mental-midget", "embarrassment", "dimmest light-bulb". He sounds like the Bush-critics.

Again - going off half-cocked. You disagree with immigration Jim, WE GET IT. However that doesn't mean every single person you disagree with are mental midgets.

I believe someone's PC sensiblities has been hurt. Then truth is painful and while most like to keep their heads in the sand Miami has become like a third world country. I had a friend move there and when she went grocery shopping not one person in the store spoke English how discourging is that?

But Tancredo is unelectable to anything except his Congressional District. We all now know that paleocons who sat out in 2004's CO race to protest a beer guy running are the real problem in a state that is trending Democrat as California refugees bring their problems and liberalism with them.

Miami is a third world city. So is LA and Detroit. Go there. Look around and don't just go to the rich parts.

Guess some people can't stand the truth?

Use to take cruise ships out of Miami, but as most people in the hotels/motels, cabs, and eating establishments don't speak English that is understandable, now have found ways of advoiding Miami.

Political correctness will ruin this Country if the general public doesn't open their eyes soon to what is really transpiring. Whoooops, that might interfer with planning the next shopping trip to the mall, BAD IDEA to have to think about something that is unpleasant.

But they are our third world cities. Unless you want them to secede. The Republican party must become a pro-immigration party again. Anti-immigration, illegal or otherwise is politcial fools gold. That is because 75% of the voting public is pro-immigration down at the roots. A majority of the pro-immigration crowd does not like current law but that does not mean they are Tancredo disciples. Someone in leadership needs to reaffirm the pro-immigration platform of the republican party. Rudy?

I would say you haven't been to Miami lately. Tancredo may have many shortcomings, overstatement is not one of them.

My sister just returned from Miami and told me that employees in most of the retail businesses in the city do not speak English. In one Starbucks establishment the employee couldn't understand what my sister was saying to her. She also told me that she saw a "Now Hiring" sign posted in a store window which said "must speak English" -

Tancredo's comments about Miami were an understatement.

Having grown up and spent the first 20 years of my career in the region, watching the whole southern tip of my beloved peninsula degrade into a gaggle of squabbling ethnicities and crime-ridden antitheses of the term "neighborhood," I think Tancredo was being kind. I was among the last of my American-born friends to leave the area; we aren't having a 30th high school reunion next year because there is nobody left in town to plan it.

Today, the few long-time friends of mine who remain in South Florida readily admit that were it not for financial or business reasons, they'd be pulling up stakes now. Nobody with whom I remain in contact who lives in Dade or Broward Counties has plans to remain there when they retire, and unanimously they wish they could be raising their children somewhere else.

I was fortunate. I was able to find a way soon after my first child was born (she's four now) to evacuate to a place that still cherishes the values, mores and language that are important to me as an American. If I ever see the signs in my new community of the creeping tendrils of the third world that our immigration policy has fertilized since 1965, I'll immediately start making plans to evacuate again.

I don't know if Tancredo is right or not about the SPP, but I've been growing more concerned about it for several months. Rather than pillory the man, why not start asking questions? Shouldn't something as big and potentially nation-changing as the SPP have a complete and fair hearing in the court of public opinion? If not, why not?

It seems to me that there is no length that some people are willing to go in order to keep faith in this president. As a conservative and as a steward of a long heritage in this nation, I cannot keep faith in him. He's a threat to all that my family desires keeping.

Uh, I live in Miami, and honestly...we call it a Third World Country all the time. It totally is. There is an impending elimination of the middle class; residents are either wealthy, or living at subsistence level; all the service workers are non-citizens, and most of them aren't even on the books (or even legal residents); police are all but non-existent, and they're amongst the poorest-paid in the country.

I love it here, but it's because I like the chaos. That Congressman was right. And as the commenter mentioned LA and Detroit...I've been to both those metro areas, and I'd say Miami even has them beat.

The irony is that Miami is republican country, most cubans are die-hard republicans! So this idiot is demeaning his own republican constituents...

Racism is an obvious problem in America and it's made even more apparent by people like Allard. Miami has its problems but let's see if any other city in the USA can compare to US:

•Miami has the third largest U.S. airport for international passengers (more than 30 million passengers annually).
•38 State licensed foreign bank agencies with $12.5 billion in deposits
•13 Edge Act banks with $7 billion in deposits
•59 Commercial banks and 11 thrift institutions with 38.8 billion in deposits
•More than 500 multinational corporations
•61 foreign consulate offices
•25 foreign trade offices
•Cruise ship capital of the world; 3,642,990 passengers in 2002

The other day on 610 WIOD, a bunch of South Floridians called in and said that they agreed with Allard. It is funny how none of those knuckleheads even live in Miami to make agree or reinforce statements made by Allard. But let me say to all those that agree with Allard, Colorado is only a few hundred miles away. So, do US a favor and rent a U-Haul and get the Hell out of South Florida. The world doesn't need more racist.

The last time I checked, the UN's human development index (by which a country is classified as third world) pays no regard to language. That is the only argument I have heard in this whole ordeal, that people in Miami all speak spanish. If the people all spoke french, or japanese, would it still be a third world city? If Americans use a language standard to judge a city, then I suppose Paris and Tokyo would also be classified as third world.
Many miami citizens may be of hispanic descent, but this has also attracted the large amount of business and investment capital that our city receives from Latin America. And this international trade has in turn sparked a large amount of European investment, and now Asian Investment.
When referring to Miami as third world, look beyond the language, do some actual research, and someone please tell me how miami is a third world city.

Whoa! Before people start throwing around terms like "third world" they should make the time to actually visit a third world nation. It looks like that won't happen any time soon judging from the xenophobia I'm seeing here. I live in Miami, and while I must admit that it has its shortcomings, it is nowhere near a third world nation. There are roads, clean water, and a general infrastructure you will never see in a third world nation. Currently, there is a large scale revitalization of the downtown area. People are moving back into the inner city in droves, and the crime rate that Tancredo (that sure sounds like a true red, white and blue last name to me!) of 200 homicides is actually DOWN from what it was in the 80's. I've been both to Detroit and Los Angeles several times, and I guarantee that Miami is not even close to both cities. The only thing about Miami which does resemble a third world nation is its politics. There is an insane amount of corruption, and ironically enough, it is being comitted by the "American Born" politicians. This whole idea about American culture needs to be defined. American as hot dogs and apple pie? Thank the German and Polish immigrants for those two staples of Americana! Think about this: Do you really want to get back to "true" American culture? Then let's break out the sweatlodges and go buffalo hunting. Remember those Americans? As far as I'm concerned, true American Culture is based on individual achievement, and productivity. The way some people on this board speak it sounds to me like they need to start judging people as individuals, not as some collective construct of ignorance and misinformed arrogance.

Here is some research for Paul -

According to the U.S. Census Bureau 2002 American Community Survey, Miami was the poorest city in the United States, with 31% of the residents having incomes below the federal poverty line. In 2004, Miami moved to third in the rankings ahead of Detroit, Michigan and El Paso, Texas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami,_Florida

This has all the ingredients of what makes up a Third World Country - CORRUPTION, disappearing middle class, almost no standards in any profession here (most people get hired because they KNOW their aunt over anything else), one of the lowest education levels in all the US, no actual urban planning due to all the backdoor deals with developers. Also I think last time I checked MIA airport had one of the highest THEFT ratios of all the US airports. We pay one of the highest insurance rates in the country due to all the FRAUD cases, some more research -

Mortgage fraud is rampant in Florida (Mostly Miami)

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/16234532.htm

"Another fraud indicator: borrowers missing payments right off the bat. Miami ranks second among major metropolitan areas in the number of loans that default early, only after storm-beaten New Orleans, according to First American Loan Performance, a mortgage data firm."

Miami-Dade Police Pull 15 Cars From Canal

http://www.nbc6.net/news/4049962/detail.html

"Last year, authorities retrieved 380 cars from Miami-Dade County waterways.Rossman said car owners may get behind in their payments and either pay someone to dump the cars or do it themselves and later report the car stolen."

Top 25 Cities For Auto Thefts Released

http://www.nbc6.net/automotive/1424880/detail.html

Researchers found that the 10 metro areas with the highest vehicle theft rates were all near ports or on the border of either Mexico or Canada, leading them to believe a lot of the stolen cars and trucks are leaving the country.

1. Phoenix, Ariz.
2. Miami, Fla.

Fraud On Four Wheels

http://www.nbc6.net/news/2632168/detail.html

"If you drive in Florida, you've paid for PIP - personal injury protection - to cover medical bills from an accident. But an estimated 8 of every 10 PIP claims are fake.It's part of a billion-dollar fraud and you're paying for it."

It is hard to go to the corner here and not get scammed, that is the culture here - Scam & Easy buck . . . very similar to "Third World Countries"

I could keep on but I'll stop here as it is more than enough to prove my point, I challenge anyone to rebuttal the above and prove or show me why this is a top Metropolitan Area and "everyone wants to live here". Most people I know are trying to leave as all that it here is rampant THEFT & SCAMS

I don't understand all the vitriol that seems to be spewing from some of the anti-ethnic minority posters. The economy of tomorrow will require ALL of our children to be able to communicate and transact business with people who will probably be quite different from them, so learning an additional language is not a bad thing. The biggest challenges Miami faces are an underdeveloped economy with few firms paying $50K+ in wages, the educational system, and a high level of local corruption and cronyism.

I have found my time in Miami (5 months and counting) very stimulating and beneficial to my 5-year old son (after 4 years trying to speak Spanish at home to him with no success, he now volunteers comments and full sentences in Spanish). Further, minority citizens can often prosper in an environment that isn't so hostile to their presence (such as my hometown of St. Louis) and develop self-esteem.

In short, Miami's no paradise, but like everywhere I've ever lived, it has its positives and its negatives.