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>>>You better be ready to back that completely unfounded statement up with some facts. Hit and run falsifications won't be tolerated.<<<

Did I not just freaking compliment Fred Thompson? You people are unbelievable at times. Fred Thompson is not even close to being the most conservative individual in this race, either in this positions or in his voting record.

Refried Thompson: FOX's ALAN COLMES: "You don't put up a fence, either, do you? Is that bad neighbor policy, put a fence up?"

THOMPSON: "If it would work. I mean, I don't know – that's a technical problem. In this day and age, I would not think you would have to use bricks and mortar to get that job done.

Fred Thompson You're going to get them all together and get them out of the country, which is not going to happen. Or you're going to have to, in some way, work out a deal where they can have some aspirations of citizenship, but not make it so easy that it's unfair to the people waiting in line and abiding by the law."

Fred Thompson
For 20 years, we've not enforced the law, and that's a part of the problem. You can't enforce it all on the backs of the employers. People falsify information that they give employers and all that. That's not a solution to the problem.

Sen. Thompson, in committee consideration of S.1664 protected businesses from having to pay higher fines when they are caught hiring illegal aliens. Under the idea that current fines were not enough of a deterrent against businesses cutting their labor costs by hiring illegal aliens, the Senate immigration subcommittee approved higher fines. Various study commissions have found that the willingness of U.S. businesses to hire illegal aliens is the No. 1 incentive for foreign workers to become illegal aliens here. But Sen. Thompson voted with a 10-8 majority in the Judiciary Committee to remove the higher fines from the 1996 legislation against illegal immigration.

S.1664 - Thompson voted against creating a voluntary program whereby businesses could phone into an automated system to verify the legality of their potential-hires.

He also voted for an amnesty of nearly 1-million illegal Cubans and Nicaraguans living within the coutnry.

That one I'm less concerned about, as they were seeking asylum.