Presidential Update

I'm not a huge John McCain fan, although I do recall supporting him at the Minnesota caucus I attended in 2000. However, he seems to be clawing his way back into the race. He had the best line in the last GOP debate, and since that's how you win these things, for better or for worse, he got some good media from it. Check this out.

Fred Thompson unveiled his immigration plan this week. I like it. Too often we are told that mass deportation or amnesty are our only two options. I disagree, and so does Fred:

Attrition through Enforcement. Reduce the number of illegal aliens through increased enforcement against unauthorized alien workers and their employers. Without illegal employment opportunities available, fewer illegal aliens will attempt to enter the country, and many of those illegally in the country now likely will return home. Self-deportation can also be maximized by stepping up the enforcement levels of other existing immigration laws. This course of action offers a reasonable alternative to the false choices currently proposed to deal with the 12 million or more aliens already in the U.S. illegally: either arrest and deport them all, or give them all amnesty. Attrition through enforcement is a more reasonable and achievable solution, but this approach requires additional resources for enforcement and border security.

I also like this:

End Sanctuary Cities by cutting off discretionary federal grant funds as appropriate to any community that, by law, ordinance, executive order, or other formal policy directs its public officials not to comply with the provisions of 8 USC 1373 and 8 USC 1644, which prohibit any state or local government from restricting in any way communications with the Department of Homeland Security regarding the immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of an alien in the United States.