Skeeter : “I’ve narrowed my policy issue interests considerably in the past few years to two or three - with illegal immigration at the top of the list.
So far Fred & Duncan are the ONLY GOP candidates with guts enough to speak unequivocally on the subject, and only Fred is within range.”
Often the less than desirable votes on immigration by Fred don’t get shown.
FRED THOMPSON ON IMMIGRATION
Voted in 1996 to continue chain migration
Voted to strip legal reforms from 1996 bill
Voted in favor of chain migration in 1996
oted for a foreign worker bill with no anti-fraud measures in 2000.
As Committee member, produced H-1B doubling bill in 1998
Voted in committee against including worker safeguards in H-1B bill in 1998
Voted to allow firms to lay off Americans to make room for foreign workers in 1998
Voted to grant amnesty to nearly one million illegal aliens from Nicaragua and Cuba in 1997
In 1996, removed higher fines for businesses which hire illegal aliens
Tried to kill voluntary pilot programs for workplace verification in 1996
http://profiles.numbersusa.com/improfile.php3?DistSend=TN&VIPID=743
As there were numerous votes on some bills, kindly denote the bill numbers for us.
AuntB, I used your link. In fairness, Fred did have some rather unsavory votes circa 1996 to 2000. I note that he also voted against the illegal alien also during that time frame in a few instances.
This makes me think there may have been more to some of these bills, than meets the eye.
I also believe that a person can change their mind over time and become a strident believer in a cause. Thompson has genuinely seemed to do this on immigration from my vantage point.
In 1990 I wasn’t a devout right to lifer. After being expose to the right to life arguements I became a strident right to life advocate.
Mind you, I have never advocated abortion. It had just been my view that it was a matter of choice. I couldn’t disagree with that more today.
Thompson seems anti-illegal immigrant today, and I don’t seem much in recent years to deter that opinion.