Ridiculous Congressional comment of the day comes from Tom Tancredo (R-CO) from an interview in a conservative publication:

I talked to a man who headed up a gang unit out of Los Angeles. He told me that there were five cities -- Compton, California, near Los Angeles, was one -- that were completely taken over by the Mexican Mafia. He said they had taken over the city council, the mayor’s office, the police chief…it has become simply another place for illegal drug activity in an institutionalized fashion. He said they couldn’t bust anybody in town. They can't talk to the police in these towns.

LAPD Chief Bill Bratton must be laughing out loud.

More from Tancredo--he's against legal immigration too.

So what we are seeing is a phenomenon that is really disturbing and it’s all about numbers. People talk about illegal immigration being a problem. It’s not just illegal immigration: it is immigration both legal and illegal, on a massive scale.

[link via Walter in Denver]