You're right .. he's not to blame for the immigration problem and I understand he's trying to fix it
I just think he's going about it all the wrong way
I hear ya, Mo1 ... I’m in the “borders first” camp. And I’m glad to hear Fred Thompson voiced that in his speech last night before the Virginia party gathering:
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“”We’ve got to convince our friends around the world — and we have a lot of friends around the world — that this is a battle between the forces of civilization and the forces of evil,” said Thompson, who has authorized a fundraising committee in his biggest step yet toward a national candidacy.
Thompson, a senator from 1994 to 2002 as well as a television and movie actor, attacked immigration legislation favored by President Bush as a threat to the nation’s security.
To a standing ovation, Thompson said,
“We’ve got to secure the border first. . . . This is our house, and we get to decide who gets to come into our house.”
Thompson said possible bipartisan consensus on the immigration bill represents a “disconnect between the people of this country and Congress like I’ve never seen before.”
Thompson was the headliner at the Republican Party of Virginia’s 2007 Commonwealth Gala, which Chairman Ed Gillespie predicted would raise about $110,000.
http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2007-06-03-0304.html