Republican Fred Thompson said Tuesday the government should yank federal dollars from cities and states that don't report illegal immigrants.
In his first major policy proposal, Thompson challenged presidential rivals Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney by criticizing "sanctuary cities" where city workers are barred from reporting suspected illegal immigrants who enroll their children in school or seek hospital treatment.
"Taxpayer money should not be provided to illegal immigrants," Thompson said at a roundtable discussion that included Collier County, Fla., sheriff Don Hunter.
Thompson has argued his rivals are soft on illegal immigration because Giuliani, as New York mayor, sued the federal government to keep his city's sanctuary policy and because Romney tolerated sanctuary cities as Massachusetts' governor.
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The former Tennessee senator also called for stronger laws forcing employers to verify that workers aren't illegal immigrants, for a more rigorous system to track who is coming in and out of the country and for increased prosecution of "coyotes," smugglers who bring illegal immigrants across the Mexican border.
Calling for stronger border security, he said: "A small amount of nuclear material could do a lot of damage in the wrong hands. It makes you wonder why a terrorist would bother going through an airport or a port ... when we have an open border."
"In 1996 we passed a bill, I was in the Senate, that outlawed sanctuary city cities. Mayor Giuliani went to court to defeat that law," Thompson said.
Its official. Thompson is a moron. Anyone thinking about voting for this "man" is clearly out of their mind. 22% of crime by illegal immigrants? is he crazy? Does he not realize that EVERY "AMERICAN" CITIZEN is or is a descendant of an immigrant. There cant be such a thing as illegal immigration in that sense if everyone has come here through one mean or another
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