Posted on 10/23/2007 7:49:12 AM PDT by blogsforthompson.com
Fred Thompson is set to announce today a major proposal that would take a huge bite out of the enormous illegal immigration problem in America. Fred will meet in Florida with the Collier County Sheriff, Don Hunter, and will then reportedly announce the details of his plan that would enforce our nation's borders and target cities and employers that harbor and hire illegal aliens. AP writer Brendan Farrington reports on the expected announcement:
Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson is choosing a county with a large farmworker population to announce an immigration policy Tuesday that will include stripping federal grant money from cities and states that don't report illegal immigrants.Thompson plans to meet with Collier County Sheriff Don Hunter before announcing details of his border security and immigration enforcement proposal.
A major part of the plan will be to reduce the number of illegal immigrants by increasing enforcement of existing law. Sanctuary cities, where city employees are not required to report illegal immigrants to federal authorities, would lose discretionary federal grants, said a campaign source who didn't want to be named because the plan hasn't been announced.
Thompson will also call for stronger laws to force employers to verify that workers aren't illegal immigrants, a more rigorous system to track who is coming in and out of the country and a plan to increase prosecution of "coyotes," smugglers who bring illegal immigrants across the Mexican border, the source said. He will also talk about border security.
Collier County has vast tomato farms that hire thousands of immigrants. Last year it was part of a two-county sweep with 163 illegal immigrants arrested in one weekend. The campaign plans to cite figures that 22 percent of the county's crime is committed by illegal immigrants and that 40 percent of county's arrest warrants are for illegal immigrants.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently trained 27 Collier sheriff's deputies to enforce immigration laws.
At a campaign stop in Georgia last week, Thompson accused rivals Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani of being soft on illegal immigration when Romney was Massachusetts' governor and Giuliani was New York's mayor.
“Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson is choosing a county with a large farmworker population to announce an immigration policy Tuesday that will include stripping federal grant money from cities and states that don’t report illegal immigrants.”
OH, HELL, YEAH!
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LOL! A new FR classic! :)
He does call them illegal aliens, just like he uses the term Islamofascist.
(Note: I'm not saying Fred has flip-flopped or that he is pandering. I'm pointing out the absurdity of those who make those kinds of statements about other candidates who, like Thompson, have seen their positions on some issues evolve over time towards the conservative.)
“The general populace will not have the stomach for it (deportation) after the first year,”
The Democrats won’t, but not the general populace.
You’re thinking of the party group-think that sees life as one Hollywood movie after another: conservatives: `The Handmaid’s Tale’; nuclear war: `The Day After’; global warming: ‘The Day After Tomorrow’; deporting illegal aliens (`fugees’): `Children of Men’.
Most Americans want them drop-kicked out asap. Period. They won’t be herded together in concentration camps. I’m thinking a slow freighter to Gitmo, then an open gate to Cuba.
Let their buddies take care of them: many Mexicans vacation in Mexico, and their country can ship them home, if it wants, and start paying some of their freight.
vacation Mexico=vacation in Cuba
ping
I, however, will vote in the Iowa Caucus for Huckabee.
Oops, make that Tancredo. Tancredo should be able to score points from this by pointing out that Fred's presidential proposal is to do what he's already done from his weak position of power in Congress.
If immigration is a hot button issue, we don't want Fred as our nominee. He was joined at the hip with Spencer Abraham who except for Ted Kennedy was the biggest enemy of immigration sanity. Diane Feinstein will campaign for the Democrats against Thompson's weak immigration record and she will have the authority to do since Thompson voted with Abraham against her amendment to reduce chain migration.
The "listen to what I say now, not how I voted back then" plea will not fly and it will undermine his "look how I voted on abortion, not how I lobbied for abortionists" argument.
I would like to see troops, retired cops, volunteers, etc., armed to the teeth and closing the border.
“It’s even more problematic than that. Not one of the “round ‘em all up and deport them now!” crowd can put forward a workable plan to do so under the following realities:
* The plan must not infringe civil liberties
* The plan must ensure that not one U.S. citizen or legal resident is accidentally detained or deported”
I’m not trying to challenge you here, but someone else’s post made me think - what if we told all illegals to go back to their country. On your way out, register your departure. Once all those who are currently in line to immigrate are processed, we will start immigration back in the order in which you departed. After 6 months of this, any illegal caught who is obviously not trying to follow our laws would be immediately deported to NEVER be allowed back (how’s that for incentive). All those “mostly” law abiding illegals would now have the chance to get back FROM THE OUTSIDE and would have paid a mighty inconvenience as punishment for breaking the law.
Of course, a physically secure border must be achieved to make any of this work.
I guess she doesn't read the same articles I do; nor get the same emails from Euro relatives that I do. Both continually point out the freeloading and perks handed out to the 'kings of the road' (mostly illegal) "immigrants".
Malmo is in Europe. So is the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, along with the rest. So is London and Birmingham, and Luton, England UK.
Maybe she was referring to the German policy of cutting off benefits to women who refuse to take a "job" in the "sex industry".
Or, maybe she was referring to selective enforcement, against Christians and/or Americans?
BUMP! It is about time one of the candidates would take the lead on this issue and I just tickled it is my candidate, Fred Thompson.
Given this appears to be a flip flop on Fred’s part (I agree with the post above #38), (not to mention a steal from Duncan Hunter’s playbook), I expect we’ll have to do a lot of reading between Fred’s lines again in order to see through this little dog and pony show. No doubt in my mind, positions don’t change on a dime and anything he’s proposing will equate to Bush’s “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” = no amnesty AMNESTY and a ‘technologically’ (un)secured border. I’ve no reason to trust Fred Thompson now.
Within weeks of the first wave of court challenges and news articles about the plight of the poor Mexican families, national will will fold like a house of cards.
This isn’t hollywood, its political reality circa 2007 in “American Idol” USA...
Today we need not round up millions, we need only turn off the attractions to those that can’t prove they are here illegally legally.
So that it will be SPOT ON!
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