To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.

Tancredo spoke at the Constitution Party's national committee meeting on October 23 2009. Protestors interrupted the speech with loud shouting. The greatest threat to the country that our founding fathers put together is the man that's sitting in the White House today.

W. Tancredo was initially elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 1976 and served two terms.