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The illegal immigration issue must be front and center during all of the GOP Presidential Primary Debates as well as during all of the General Presidential Debates! This will separate all of the "pro-enforcement of all of the U.S. immigration laws" Republican Presidential candidates from all of the "pro-amnesty for illegal immigrants" Republican Presidential candidates! The illegal immigration issue as well as each and every problem that's related to illegal immigration is far too important for too many politicians to keep ignoring to this point. Good-bye U.S.A. if more amnesty for illegals happens soon.

"The illegal immigration issue must be front and center during all of the GOP Presidential Primary Debates as well as during all of the General Presidential Debates! This will separate all of the "pro-enforcement of all of the U.S. immigration laws" Republican Presidential candidates from all of the "pro-amnesty for illegal immigrants" Republican Presidential candidates! Good-bye U.S.A. if more amnesty for illegals happens soon."

I'm big on this issue, and while I don't think Thompson record amounts to my own, I do think he'll run on an enforcement policy.

He would do really well if he picked Duncan or someone like him. The desire to have someone that you know will back that position, is desireable by many conservatives. I just think ultimately we don't want a 'comprehesive' package to come-out. The system must be fixed...we must have clear enforcement.

I think the primary interest is in the workplace. Just mandating the use of verification. Simply putting that in place leave all business whom do such, open to legal dispute. I for one think that in some cases we'll need immigration...but it has to make sense, and it can't be just supply the dems with more votes or business with cheap labor.

It has to be a geniune need to our economy.

Regarding illegal immigration, Thompson said:

We woke up one day after years of neglect and apparently discovered that we have somewhere between 12 million and 20 million illegal aliens in this country. So it became an impossible situation to deal with. I mean, there's really no good solution. So what do you do? You have to start over. Well, I'm concerned about the next 12 million or 20 million. So that's why enforcement, and enforcement at the border, has to be primary.

I think most people feel disillusioned after 1986 when we had this deal offered to them before, and now we're insisting that, you know, we solve the security problem first, and then we'll talk about what to do with regard to other things – certainly no amnesty or nothing blanket like that.

But figure out some way to make some differentiation between the kind of people that we have here.

You know, if you have the right kind of policies, and you're not encouraging people to come here and encouraging them to stay once they're here, they'll go back, many of them, of their own volition, instead of having to, you know, load up moving vans and rounding people up. That's not going to happen.