From you link:
Voted in 1996 to continue chain migration
Sen. Thompson in 1996 voted against the Simpson Amendment to S.1664. It was a vote in favor of a chain migration system that has been the primary reason for annual immigration levels snowballing from less than 300,000 in 1965 to around a million. Sen. Thompson supported provisions that allow immigrants to send for their adult relatives. Then each of those relatives can send for their and their spouse’s adult relatives, creating a never-ending and ever-growing chain. The bi-partisan Barbara Jordan Commission recommended doing away with the adult relative categories (begun only in the 1950s) in order to lessen wage depression among lower-paid American workers. The Simpson Amendment attempted to carry out that recommendation. But Sen. Thompson helped kill the reform by voting with the 80-20 majority against the amendment. Sen. Thompson’s vote helped continue a level of immigration that the Census Bureau projects will result in a doubled U.S. population in the next century.See detailed description
Maybe he’s learned something since then. Let’s ask Fred to repudiate that ‘96 vote for chain migration. More constructive than just assuming the worst.
If he supported provisions in the amendment which reportedly continued chain migration and in fact expand it to other relatives why did Fred ultimately vote against the Simpson Amendment with 79 other Senators. There is no proof offered that Fred supported adding adult relatives to the amendment unless his own statements on the Senate floor or elsewhere support that conclusion.