Tom Tancredo hasn’t been called and he hasn’t reached out, but helping Donald Trump carry out his immigration policy would be a request the former Colorado congressman would have a hard time turning down.

There is one dealbreaker: not in Washington, said Tancredo, once America’s hardest liner on immigration enforcement who led the march against bilingual education 40 years ago

Phone calls or not so far, signs point to a future relationship between Trump and Tancredo.

“Anything he wants, if I could stay right here,” said Tancredo, backstage before conservative writer and TV pundit Michelle Malkin premiere her new TV digital show last week in Aurora.

Tancredo has been a Republican presidential appointee before. A former public school teacher, he led the U.S. Department of Education’s Denver office in 1981 for President Reagan and stayed on in the job for President George H.W. Walker Bush until 1992. He cut the size of the Denver office by nearly three-quarters.

“Our whole deal was that we were supposed to close down the department,” Tancredo said of Republicans’ disdain for federal involvement in local schools. “I took it seriously.

So does Trump.

“A lot of people believe the Department of Education should just be eliminated,” Trump said in his 2015 book, “Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America.”

“Get rid of it. If we don’t eliminate it completely, we certainly need to cut its power and reach. Education has to be run locally.”

Tancredo ran for president in 2008 primarily because none of the other candidates, he thought, had a strong enough policy on illegal immigration. He didn’t get much traction then, but thinks America supporting Trump indicates voters are getting to where Tanscredo has been on the issue for a long time.

But is Tancredo where Trump is on this issue?

“I don’t know where he is,” he said. “I can’t tell you whether he’s right or wrong, because I’m not sure what he’s going to do yet. I’m fairly confident in him, though, because of the people he’s surrounding himself with so far.”

Saturday Tancredo took on Trump’s Republican enemies in a column he wrote for Breitbart News, the alt-right website where the president-elect’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, was executive chairman until he stepped down in August to become CEO of the campaign.

Tancredo wrote:

So, the bad news for President Trump is this: If he keeps faith with his campaign promises on immigration, for example to limit Muslim immigration from terrorism afflicted regions, which is within his legitimate constitutional powers as President, he will risk impeachment. However, his congressional critics will face one enormous hurdle in bringing impeachment charges related to immigration enforcement: about 90 percent of what Trump plans to do is within current law and would require no new legislation in Congress. Obama disregarded immigration laws he did not like, so all Trump has to do is enforce those laws.

Now, if you think talk of impeachment is ridiculous because Republicans control Congress, you are underestimating the depth of Establishment Republican support for open borders.

The first effort in the 21st century at a general amnesty for all 20 million illegal aliens came in January 2005 from newly re-elected President George Bush. The “Gang of Eight” amnesty bill passed by the US Senate in 2013 did not have the support of the majority of Republican senators, and now they are faced with a Republican president pledged to the exact opposite agenda, immigration enforcement. And yet, do not doubt the establishment will sacrifice  a Republican president to protect the globalist, open borders status quo.