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Way to take it out of context.

Full quote:
THOMPSON: Well, that’s true, as a general statement. We woke up one day after years of neglect and apparently discovered that we have somewhere between 12 million and 20 million illegal aliens in this country. So it became an impossible situation to deal with. I mean, there’s really no good solution. So what do you do? You have to start over. Well, I’m concerned about the next 12 million or 20 million. So that’s why enforcement, and enforcement at the border, has to be primary. I think most people feel disillusioned after 1986 when we had this deal offered to them before, and now we’re insisting that, you know, we solve the security problem first, and then we’ll talk about what to do with regard to other things — certainly no amnesty or nothing blanket like that. But figure out some way to make some differentiation between the kind of people that we have here. You know, if you have the right kind of policies, and you’re not encouraging people to come here and encouraging them to stay once they’re here, they’ll go back, many of them, of their own volition, instead of having to, you know, load up moving vans and rounding people up. That’s not going to happen.

Based on those quotations, he’s describing a policy of attrition. Which is what most of us want. Which is what most of the country wants, if I’ve read between the lines in enough of these polls correctly.

I can understand questioning his sincerity being this topic is red hot now, and he wasn’t on the front lines to my knowledge ten years ago. Though most weren’t.

I cannot understand taking those quotes from present and trying to twist them into support for massive amnesty. Not you, but others.

Partial amnesty....yes. After all, attrition at it’s heart does imply the most hardcore that do not pull up stakes and return home when denied employment would be allowed to stay. Though I think there would be an argument as to just what liberties they’d be granted for having broken the law to begin with. But the basic idea is to reduce it from 15-30 million, to between 1-5 million while cutting the flow of illegals off completely. Easier to assilimate these smaller numbers, and easier to stomach doing so, if it’s guarenteed never to happen again.

The main argument we’re having now is that our government wants to grant leniacy to numbers we could never assimilate, and let it continue indefinitely. Thats intolerable.

If Thompson’s position is to enforce the border first, penalize emloyers first, and then practice this philosophy of attrition I’m onboard with that. i think the country would be.

I’m still hesitant to trust on this issue though. If it was Hunter, it would be different. I’m following Thompson closely because he’s my most likely choice provided Hunter can’t increase his numbers. Unlikely but my loyalty is to him fist. :-) On pro-Life issues, I’m not nearly as hesitant about Thompson. A President with a Federalist approach to those issues is fine by me. He doesn’t have to be a pro-lifer in the sense that G.W.B. is, though that remains the one area I’m not disappointed in Bush about.