IMMIGRATION PROFILE OF SEN. FRED THOMPSON:
Voted to grant amnesty to close to one million illegal aliens from Nicaragua and Cuba in 1997
Voted in 1996 to continue chain migration
Voted in favor of chain migration in 1996
Voted to allow firms to lay off Americans to make room for foreign workers in 1998
In 1996, removed higher fines for businesses which hire illegal aliens
Tried to kill voluntary pilot programs for workplace verification in 1996
Thompson in favor of Amnesty as long as it’s not “easy”
In a recent appearance on the program Hannity and Colmes, Fred Dalton Thompson stated very clearly that getting the Illegal Alien Trespassers out of the country “is not gonna happen” and that the solution is to “work out a deal where they can have some aspirations of citizenship” but that we shouldn’t make it “easy” so that it is not unfair to the other Aliens waiting to get in. Pro Amnesty Fred?
Why don’t you post the links to those votes and exactly what the votes were? (ie- Were they stand alone bills or buried in some appropriations bill), instead of just posting your conclusory statements? If this is your strategy for lifting Duncan Hunter above .25 in the polls, it is not going to work.
Nicaraguans and Cubans are very different than most other illegal immigrants, because the majority of them are political refugees.
Horsesh*t! Thompson said he was against amnesty.
Spinning it like the MSM, I see.
Fred Thompson opposes amnesty and illegal immigration.