Tancredo ad links porous borders to terrorism

Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) unveiled a television ad Monday that shows a terrorist preparing to blow up a shopping mall.

{mosads}In the spot, a hooded figure is carrying a backpack filled with explosives into a mall; the ad ends with the sound of an explosion. In the ad, which will initially air in Iowa but will also be shown in New Hampshire and nationally, Tancredo is linking terrorism to the country’s porous borders.

The Colorado lawmaker, who is seeking the GOP presidential nomination, has made illegal immigration and homeland security the focus of his White House campaign and his work in Congress.

“The consequences of uncontrolled immigration are far more serious than our leaders want us to believe,” Tancredo stated in unveiling the ad. “The safety of Americans and the security of our way of life are on the line. We need action now.”

The campaign did not provide details of how much money Tancredo is spending on the ad buy. At the end of the third quarter, the lawmaker had $110,079 cash on hand.  

Tancredo vowed Monday “never to be so stymied by political correctness as to hesitate to take the tough necessary steps to keep America safe and secure.”

In the ad, the hooded man is seen loading the explosives into the backpack, taking it to a mall and leaving the device near a bench.

“There are consequences to open borders beyond the 20 million aliens who have come to take our jobs,” a narrator says. “Islamic terrorists now freely roam U.S. soil, Jihadists who froth with hate, here to do as they have in London, Spain, Russia.”

Before the explosion is heard and the screen fades to black, the narrator indicates that a terrorist attack is the “price we pay for spineless politicians who refuse to defend our borders against those who come to kill.”

Tancredo’s campaign also released a radio ad in which he stresses his strong stance on border security.

“I’ll prosecute those who provide sanctuary to anyone who would harm us, deport all those who do not belong here, and put the military on the border, if necessary, to keep them from coming back,” Tancredo vows.

In a dig at former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is running for the GOP nod in part on the name recognition and accolades he received for guiding New York through the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Tancredo says in the radio ad that “leadership is about more than taking action after an attack, it’s about doing everything in your power to stop it, and I mean everything.”