By: Tom Tancredo
There are an abundance of horror stories to write about in Brandon’s America. Still, the election results on Nov 2 and the World Series win by the Atlanta Braves have made me so happy that I have decided to craft this column on an upbeat note while keeping with one of my favorite themes – immigration. So here goes.
During my ten years in Congress, I traveled to both the northern and southern borders on many occasions and was almost always confronted by the ugliness that was, and is open borders. However, on one such trip to the border, I was taken on a tour of a hot spot of illegal alien activity near Sierra Blanca, TX, in Hudspeth County.
My tour guide was Sheriff Arvin West, and I rode with him as he pointed out where his officers had recently encountered a two-ton truck filled with drugs that had become stuck in the very shallow waters of Rio Grande. Eventually, a standoff between a Mexican army armored vehicle and Sheriff Hudspeth’s outgunned officer resulted in the truck being towed back to the Mexican side and “confiscated” by the Mexican army.
As we rode along, I looked up to the side of a hill and saw a coyote starting to enter a pasture with several cows and their calves. I pointed the critter out to the Sheriff and asked if we shouldn’t dispatch the varmint with the old 30-30 rifle sitting between us on the front seat? He asked me if I was serious. “Damn straight,” I told him.
He pulled over, and I got out with the rifle and opened fire. Now, this was an open sight 30-30, and I was not doing well until the two deputies who were behind us got out and, with their binoculars, started saying, “you’re high Congressman.”
By now, that coyote was 400 yards away and going like a bat out of hell. I lowered the sights and let off another round. All I could see was a lot of dust being kicked up. The deputies yelled, “You got it.” There were lots of high fives, and we traveled on. That night when I got to the hotel, I called home to check in. When my wife asked me if I had a good day, I said it was great and that I had shot a coyote. Now, remember that the word coyote is also used to describe the smugglers who bring people and drugs across the border. My wife yelled, “You What ?!!” She calmed down after I explained that it was the four-legged variety that I had bagged.
A few weeks after, our D.C. office got a call from the Capitol mailroom asking if I was expecting any animal parts. I said no but to send them up. I opened the package to find a pair of coyote ears and the following letter from Sheriff West in a shadowbox.
This is to confirm Congressman Tom Tancredo is the proud owner of a set of West Texas Coyote ears,
As witnessed on January 14th 2006 Congressman Tancredo using a Marlin 30-30 open sight rifle, shot a wild coyote traveling in a field with said cows and calves where said coyote is believed to have caused the death of several calves. Congressman Tancredo shot the coyote which was on a dead run. The fatal shot was fired at no less than 400 yards.
By the power vested in me by the Office of Sheriff of Hudspeth County Texas and because of his ability to fire an open sighted rifle with utmost accuracy, I hereby appoint Congressman Tom Tancredo Special Deputy in charge of all long range predator sniper operations in Hudspeth County, Texas.Sheriff Arven West
Sincerely, Arvin West.
I have proudly displayed the award in my Congressional office, and it worked as a deterrent against unwanted lobbying by PETA. I offered to rent it out to my colleagues if they had the need for it.
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Didn’t hold Obama from being elected!
Good for you! I might wish it had been one of those two legged ones but I would not want you subjected to the Rittenhouse treatment by the two legged variety in the media!
Nice story. Too bad it wasn’t one of those two legged coyotes. Until the government gets serious and starts turning the boys loose with some real firepower and drop a few dozen cartel traffickers, shooting wildlife ain’t gonna mean anything.
Unfortunately Democrats have greater love for the coyotes with 2 legs than for those with 4; even though the 2 leg coyotes do a lot more damage to our nation. It seems to me our Democrat government officials have more love and respect for illegal aliens than for citizens of the US.
A great story. It surely raised my spirits.
Don’t think you should be bragging about killing an animal, ANY wild animal
A man tells a story about an experience he had with a predator that we ALL know kills and eats calves and you label it as bragging. You’ve never lived where animals eat other animals, have you?
Coyote’s are not wild animals, Janet,…. they are Varmints,…. they kill livestock and drive the price of your steak/hamburger/pork chops/chicken/duck/Turkey/Lamb , up even more than That doddering old fool already has,…. get real and bag a few of them too
So, it’s ok for predators to kill livestock. Costing ranchers and farmers untold millions, but heaven forbid we should eradicate the ones who prey on defenseless calves?
Just try and pet one of your poor little coyotes.
Love that story, Tommy T.; though, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Voted for you so many times and so many times you were misunderstood. I’m happy you’re still w/ us. This way is better than no way at all. Thank you for being YOU!
I love this article, I love Tom Tancredo (OK, he’s already committed but I would like to be his friend at least!) This is a man’s man whom any woman can admire, and who has always done his best to get the job done. Turn him loose to run the border and there wouldn’t be a problem. Turn him loose in Congress and ditto—-the morons would all be sent back home and we’d get our country returned to the Great America it used to be. Let’s Go Branden!/F*JB!
a 30-30 at 400yards? doubtful. real good 100 yard or less brush rifle
well Tancredo, you should join the boys down in west Texas and bag a few more, with a pistol, we get on average two a week just accidentally.