“I support the 60-day amnesty program. We give every person in our country without our permission (i.e. illegally) 60 day to get themselves out back across the border without fear of arrest, prosecution or imprisonment.
Any left in the country after that must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, including prison terms.”
Great idea. So then you don’t support Thompson?
Don’t try to drape me between those two horns. I do not find that my support of Thompson provides me with any sort of dilemma whatsoever on the subject of illegal immigration.
I happen to agree with 98% of what I clearly understand his position to be and I won’t be manipulated by your out-of-context quotations.
You are clearly attempting to engage in partisan hair splitting and equivocation. Thompson is for enforcing the border and immigration laws already on the books first.
Then he is in favor of creating circumstances through additional enforcement in the interior, and other measures not really specified, to create conditions where many - if not most - of these miscreants will voluntarily repatriate themselves from whence they came.
If they don’t... well that’s where the “60 day amnesty” comes in - and I have never seen anything that would intdicate to me that Thompson would have any issue whatsoever with such a proposal.
So take your “straw men”, your definitional slight-of-hand, and your quoting out of context and head back to the beige room. The interview is over.