WALLACE: Well, let me put up on the screen something that you said last year about illegals, and let's take a look at it. "You're going to have to, in some way, work out a deal where they can have some aspirations of citizenship but not make it so easy that it's unfair to the people waiting in line and abiding by the law." Now, you said, "Look, it's just not realistic that we're going to round up 12 million people and ship them all out of the country."
THOMPSON: Well, that's true, as a general statement. 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.
Thompson has since come out even stronger on this issue.
You are a liar and you should be ashamed of yourself.
It means Thompson will do nothing about the 20 million or more illegals who are here.
Nothing.
Here's your boy Thompson...
... an impossible situation to deal with.
... 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.
You see, what Thompson doesn't seem to understand is that many voters don't want a promise "to talk about what to do" about the 20 million illegals at some indefinite time in the future. We want a concrete plan -- not this vague, limp-wristed hogwash we're hearing from Thompson.
So go ahead and vote for him. You'll get business as usual -- the "fence" that never gets built and wouldn't keep out a butterfly even if it were built -- and 20 million illegals who stay right where they are, reproducing like flies -- when they're not murdering and raping Americans, bankrupting community resources and committing every kind of identity fraud.
You want to believe Thompson's got a plan? Be my guest but to me, he sounds just like another bullshiter on the next barstool.
BTW, I missed his "even stronger" statements. Could you provide a link to them?
Anyway, I stand by my statement that Thompson believes deportation of the illegals is unrealistic and that Thompson has no concrete plan for dealing with the problem. From everything I've heard him say so far, he's going to dance around the issue just like every other blockhead who's currently in this race, with the possible exceptions of Hunter and Tancredo.