6 Responses to “Fred Thompson On Shamnesty”

1. Don Jones on August 3rd, 2007 3:36 pm

   I am pushing economic growth in Mexico. The money we have spent in Iraq would go a long way. It can be an investment. Phoenix does not have near the beauty and land in Mexico but it is the sixth largest US City.

   Parts of Baja are a dream. Organize an internationa investment group with Mexico and start developing jobs and economic growth. Mexicans would rather stay at home if they could. True….

2. FredsForAmnesty on August 3rd, 2007 3:56 pm

   Fred ACTUAL VOting Record

   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.

   Voted in favor of chain migration in 1996

   Sen. Thompson voted in 1996 against the Feinstein Amendment to S.1664. The Feinstein Amendment would have reduced annual admission of spouses and minor children of citizens to 480,000 and significantly reduced annual limits other categories of chain migration such as parents of citizens and adult unmarried children of citizens. By voting against the Feinstein Amendment, Sen. Thompson voted in favor of a system of chain migration that has been the primary reason for annual immigration levels snowballing from less than 300,000 in 1965 to around a million today.

   Voted to grant amnesty to close to one million illegal aliens from Nicaragua and Cuba in 1997

   Sen. Thompson voted to grant legal status to Nicaraguans and Cubans who had lived in the United States illegally since 1995, along with their spouses and minor unmarried children. The overall ten year impact of this legislation will be the addition of some 967,000 people to U.S. population. There was no separate vote on the amnesty, as it was inlcuded in the DC Appropriations bill. The only opportunity Senators had to vote in favor of or against the amnesty was the Mack Amendment to S.1156. The Mack Amendment passed 99-1.
   In 1996, removed higher fines for businesses which hire illegal aliens
   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.

   Tried to kill voluntary pilot programs for workplace verification in 1996

   Sen. Thompson voted IN FAVOR of the Abraham Amendment to S.1664. He was part of a coalition of pro-business conservatives and liberal civil libertarians who tried to use the amendment to kill the establishment of voluntary pilot programs in high-immigration states. The programs were intended to assist employers in verifying whether people they had just hired had the legal right to work in this country. Such verification is considered by many experts to be an essential tool for withdrawing the job magnet from illegal aliens.

   Info is from NumbersUSA.

   Voted to strip legal reforms from 1996 bill
   Sen. Thompson helped defeat legal immigration reform when he voted for Senator Spencer Abraham’s amendment to remove the legal immigration reforms from S.1664, the Immigration Control and Financial Responsibility Act of 1996. This vote effectively killed any chance of Congress considering the Jordon Commission recommendations on easing legal immigration levels.

   Voted for a foreign worker bill with no anti-fraud measures in 2000.

   Sen.Thompson voted for S.2045, the Abraham foreign worker bill to nearly triple the number of foreign high-tech workers. On the heels of the release of a GAO report finding no proof of a high-tech worker shortage and evidence of abuse in the H-1B program, Sen. Thompson voted for this foreign worker bill that contained no worker protections or anti-fraud measures.

   As Committee member, produced H-1B doubling bill in 1998

   Sen. Thompson was a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that created the Abraham H-1B doubling bill in 1998, S.1723.

   Nearly doubled H-1B foreign high-tech workers in 1998

   Sen. Thompson helped the Senate pass S.1723 in a 78-20 vote. Enacted into law, it increased by nearly 150,000 the number of foreign workers high-tech American companies could hire over the next three years. Although the foreign workers receive temporary visas for up to six years, most historically have found ways to stay permanently in this country. Sen. Thompson voted for more foreign workers even though U.S. high tech workers over the age of 50 were suffering 17% unemployment and U.S. firms were laying off thousands of workers at the time.

   Voted in committee against including worker safeguards in H-1B bill in 1998

   Sen. Thompson joined 9 of his Senate colleagues to keep employee safeguards from inclusion in S.1723. An amendment would have accomplished two important goals: ensuring no American was laid off or displaced prior to hiring an H1B employee; and, that employers demonstrate they had previously taken timely and effective steps to hire a qualified American.

   Voted to allow firms to lay off Americans to make room for foreign workers in 1998

   Before the Senate passed the H-1B doubling bill (S.1723), Sen. Thompson had an opportunity to vote for a measure requiring U.S. firms to check a box on a form attesting that they had first sought an American worker for the job. Sen. Thompson voted against that, joining those who said the requirement would give government too much authority over corporations’ right to hire whomever they please from whatever country.

   Voted to allow firms to lay off Americans to make room for foreign workers in 1998

   Before the Senate passed the H-1B doubling bill(S.1723), Sen. Thompson had an opportunity to vote for an amendment that would have prohibited U.S. firms from using temporary foreign workers to replace Americans.

   Sen. Thompson opposed that protection.

3. Matt on August 3rd, 2007 6:08 pm

   Good idea Don. Look at how much money we’ve given other developing nations and they’re all STILL developing. I say force them to make their government more transparent before we give them another dime. You can’t fix corruption like we see in the Mexican government by throwing money at it.

4. Michael Kraft on August 3rd, 2007 9:03 pm

   The path of least resistance says theyd rather deport their poor uneducated to the US and get rid of poverty that way.

   Build a wall and force them to grow.

5. Alex Wallenwein on August 4th, 2007 2:35 pm

   “Red” Thompson really hasn’t said anything in this segment. He expresses the sentiments of Amnesty opponents but says nothing about what his real position is. The reason: He hasn’t got a real position. His decades of lobbying experience show that he is for sale to the highest bidder. In this case, the highest “bidder” is the voting group that he thinks will deliver him the highest number of votes. Just like Bush campaigned on a “humble” foreign policy (Ha!), he will campaign on whatever seems to carry the day - and then do what is best for Red Thomson - not what’s best for the country.

6. infragreen on August 30th, 2007 6:59 pm

   Hot air from a guy who’s done nothing but vote for more incentives to ENCOURAGE illegal immigration. Shameless B.S.

   Ron Paul attacks the incentives, and voted against them EVERY TIME. But you won’t hear the MSM reporting THAT.

   The last thing we need is another lying,CFR sitting,Gucci-wearing gasbag in the “top tier”. The entire “top tier” in BOTH parties along with the MSM and it’s corporate masters can all go **** themselves and die.

   The American people have spoken and we are SICK of it. You’r all FIRED!

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