ABOUT FIRST READ

First Read is an analysis of the day's political news, from the NBC News political unit. First Read is updated throughout the day, so check back often.

Chuck Todd, NBC Political Director

Mark Murray, NBC Deputy Political Director

Domenico Montanaro, NBC News Political Reporter



Thompson invokes 'sanctuary cities'

Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2007 2:29 PM by Domenico Montanaro

From NBC’s Andy Merten
In his continuing aggressive rhetoric against his Republican opponents, Thompson hit again this morning -- this time on illegal immigration while taking questions in Georgia. 
 

“I voted to do away with sanctuary cities in 1996,” he said of his time in the Senate. “At about that same time, Mayor Giuliani was supporting the concept of sanctuary cities.” 

And on Romney: “Governor Romney certainly didn’t say anything against sanctuary cities until recently.”
 
At an event announcing the endorsement of several Cobb County Republicans, Thompson mostly stuck to his ramped up message of being the true conservative in the GOP field. “I was walking the walk when other’s weren’t even talking the talk, yet,” he said.

*** UPDATE *** The Giuliani camp responds: "Senator Thompson's missing a few pages from his screenplay -- not only did he oppose a stricter employment verification system, but he voted to give illegal immigrants more benefits than legal immigrants. Mayor Giuliani on the other hand fought to kick criminal illegals out of the U.S. and cut New York's crime rate in half."

MAIN PAGE

Email this EMAIL THIS

Comments

Giuliani, Thompson, and Romney?? What braindead American would vote for these Bush-clones?? Bush sr is dumb, Bush jr is dumber and these candidates are dumbest. Will you kill all vibes that we have left in our great country. These are all zionist idiots who do not care about our country. They only care about their own filthy richness and about Israel. Let them go to Limbo!
If we don't get a new group of people on both parties to run, we're in deep, deep trouble. These aren't people--they're talking points who change their stories like I do the TV set.

Feed the homeless to the illegals, while they're building the border fence. Two problems down (One was a bonus!). You have questions, and I have answers. You're welcome ;~)
Rudy is for amnesty.  Mitt is for amnesty. They only talk about closing the border, not about deportation.

Fred is right.

How about this for a simple solution to the 36 million illegals, whom we are subsidizing at $22,000 per year per illegal:
Why is it illegal for an American to find out from the Social Security Administration whether their OWN or their children’s Social Security Number is being used by someone else?

If all Americans could, as a preventive measure, periodically check their SSN, not just after they have discovered their credit has been ruined, they have been stuck with illegals bills, and taxes, and have lost some of their own SS benefits, then:

1. Americans could proactively protect their and their kids' credit and finances from identify theft.
2. Illegals would be quickly discovered, and could be prosecuted and deported by ICE.
3. Most of the alleged mistakes in the SSN database would soon be corrected.
4. There would be far fewer "mismatch" letters for business to deal with.
5. For those SSNs that are fictitious, SSA should be held accountable for advising ICE, again reducing the burden on business.

Why doesn't ICE get the mismatch info from SSA and go to the employers and start arresting the criminals? Because Repubs don't want it. They want cheap taxpayer subsidized labor for dishonest business. DIPs (Democratic Illegal Party, formerly the Democratic Party)are currying favor with Hispanic Americans and want as many hispanics here as possible to bolster their party numbers, a very racist plan.

Fred is one of only two candidates who says Americans still count. The other is Tancredo.

And this is from a 20 plus, precinct walking, phone banking, money raising Democrat, when they were Democrats. I want nothing more to do with them.

Do checkout stopnorthamericanunion.com. Judical Watch has sued Bush and obtained a Bush gov document that states that as Americans will resist North American integration, it has to be done in secret by "evolutionary stealth". There is an office in DC right now write the rules and regulations. Bush has agreed to completely open borders by 2010. Supposedly we are to be governed by a three man non elected commission.

Don't believe me? Check it out. Canadians are protesting. Americans have their heads in the sand. All the politicians, Repubs or DIPS, with the exception of a few, seem to be on board with this agenda. How else do you explain all polls showing 80-95% of Americans want our immigration laws enforce and deportation and our governement does zero?
Watch out for Bush's latest scam. He is revising the visa requirements in order to bring in legal immigrants since his amnesty provision failed. But he is removing the requirements for business to first adverstise and try and find an American or pay American wages.

In other words, he wants to have visa workers work under the same slave wage conditions illegals do, so dishonest business can reap a huge profit, Americans will be put out of work, wages will be depressed and unions busted.

And these visa will go not to just unskilled farm workers but for the jobs middle class and upper class Americans hold.
Unless we have a complete take over of our political system, we are screwed. It's not the politicians, it's big business that's running this country with the politicans in their pockets. I see no one to vote for as they are all the same. We need to focus on what is going on in this country, not the rest of the world. As it's said, we need to take care of ourselves before we can take care of others. If we cannot deal with what is going on here, how can we expect to deal with what is going on in the world?
This is a correct statement.  The Immigration Bill/re: Fred's vote had riders on it that no sane person could/should vote for.  These bloggers and the news medai and I guess "Ghoulie" Rudy need to understand this. But, since Rudy has never had a Senate seat, he wouldn't.   Bills are not always as they seem and sometimes parts of them make it totally
unacceptable to vote favorably for the bill as it is.
As far as Fred and his acting skills.  He is great as Arthur Branch...NBC had no reason to keep asking him back if he wasn't.  But acutally, Rudy and Mitt are
the actors in this group.  Well, except for Judith,
she's the best actor playing her role....she's rather sickening, actually!!!!
Brett Skinn, Seattle, Wash.
You forgot to add Hillary to that list, because she couldnt careless about anything other than her lobbyist and corporate buddies, if its good for the Clintons who cares about the rest of the country...She will do just as much damage as George has done.
Ron Paul 2008 Presidential Campaign Support Petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/ronpaul1/petition.html

Vote RON PAUL - TOM TANCREDO IN '08!
*Physically secure our borders and coastlines.
*Track visa holders and deport anyone who overstays.
*End birthright citizenship.
*No Amnesty.
*End "Catch & Release"
*No welfare for illegal aliens.
and......BUILD THE FENCE!

Get off your butts and VOTE!

Ron Paul Grass-roots Amazes CNN - October 13, 2007
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/016089.html

"It's Your Country. Take It Back." Tom Tancredo


SEND A COMMENT

PLEASE READ: All comments must be approved before appearing in the thread; time and space constraints prevent all comments from appearing. We will only approve comments that are directly related to the blog, use appropriate language and are not attacking the comments of others.

Message (please, no HTML tags. Web addresses will be hyperlinked):

TRACKBACKS

Trackbacks are links to weblogs that reference this post. Like comments, trackbacks do not appear until approved by us. The trackback URL for this post is: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/trackback.aspx?PostID=418327

First Read e-mail alerts


Sign up for First Read alerts
The first place for key political news and analysis

Syndicate This Site

Add First Read to your news reader:
live.com xml
myyahoo msn
bloglines newsgator
google