One of those things is border security. The immigration problem has to do with immigration, but it in large part has to do with national security. We live in a world now we've inherited. A world that is watching the attempted marriage between radical Islamic fundamentalism and nuclear technology. We live in a world where 40 countries have fissile material sufficient to make a nuclear weapon and the bad guys are trying their best to get their hands on it. And we live in a country with porous borders and porous ports. It doesn't take a genius to put all that together and see the problem we've got in this country. And I think that people are going to demand that that be addressed first. I don't think the 12 million illegal aliens that are here, that are of concern, are as much of a concern to most people as the next 12 million and the next 12 million after that ad infinitum. We were told before that there was a solution to this if we'd just pass a bill. We did that in 1986 and now we're coming back with the same old stuff and I don't think people are going to respond to it until that border situation is addressed. Then, I think, people of good will can sit down and work out the rest of it together.
CPB was taking things out of context, MSM style, I see...
Reading and hearing the ENTIRE sentence in context I got the impression that Fred was saying that there is a lot more to immigration then just immigration. There is national security at stake. It’s strange to find FReepers here that disagree with and disparage that remark regardless of who you support.
smellybean sez: You (the always correct Captain Paintball) are a Liar!
Fred Thompson actually said: "The immigration problem has to do with immigration..."
I was right.
smellybean weasels: No, I will not apologize to Captainpaintball
You are a small man. Or woman. I am guessing woman.