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Tancredo founded the Team America political action committee in 2004 in order to raise contributions for congressional candidates who opposed illegal immigration.

Because of campaign law requirements, Tancredo was forced to resign from Team America PAC.

The PAC was noted for targeting incumbent Congressman Chris Cannon in the 2006 Republican primary.

In 2009, reporters discovered that Marcus Epstein, the Executive Director of Team America, had assaulted an African American woman in 2007, and had used a racial epithet.

Tancredo kept Epstein on his staff despite the guilty plea.