Possible 2008 Republican Presidential Candidate Fred Thompson On Immigration

Fred Thompson was born in Sheffield, Alabama on August 19, 1942. After that, he grew up in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. Thompson has an undergraduate degree in philosophy and political science from Memphis State University and a law degree from Vanderbilt University. In 1969, possible Republican Presidential Candidate, Fred Thompson, became an Assistant United States Attorney. Thompson also served as Special Counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. In 1994, he was elected to fill Al Gore's Senate seat and in 1996, he was re-elected for a full Senate term. Senator Thompson is currently living in Nashville, TN, is married and has two sons and five grandchildren.

While serving in the United States Congress as Senator of Tennessee, Fred Thompson voted YES on allowing more foreign workers into the United States for farm work, YES on visas for skilled workers and YES on limiting welfare for immigrants.

On March 4, 2007 in a speech to the Lincoln Club Annual Dinner, Senator Thompson said this about immigration, "The government could start by securing our nation's borders. A sovereign nation that can't do that is not a sovereign nation. This is secondarily an immigration issue. It's primarily a national security issue. We were told twenty years ago if we produced a comprehensive solution, we'd solve the illegal immigration problem. Twelve million illegals later, we're being told that same thing again. I don't believe most Americans are as concerned about the 12 million that are here as they are about the next 12 million and the next 12 million after that. I think they're thinking: "Prove you can secure the border and then people of good will can sit down and work out the rest of it, while protecting thosefolks who play by the rules." (ABC Radio, The Fred Thompson Report, http://abcradio.com/article.asp?id=402282&SPID=15663)