The Fred Thompson campaign has posted their Border Security and Immigration Reform Plan.

My favorite parts:

No Amnesty. Do not provide legal status to illegal aliens. Amnesty undermines U.S. law and policy, rewards bad behavior, and is unfair to the millions of immigrants who follow the law and are awaiting legal entry into the United States. In some cases, those law-abiding and aspiring immigrants have been waiting for several years.

Darn Skippy.  If you cheated to get here, you GOTTA leave.

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:

Cut off the jobs, and they will stop coming.  Those here will leave.

Enforce Existing Federal Laws. Enforce the laws Congress has already enacted to prevent illegal aliens from unlawfully benefiting from their presence in the country: 

1. 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.

2. Deny discretionary Federal education grants as appropriate to public universities that violate federal law by offering in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens without also offering identical benefits to United States citizens, regardless of whether or not they live in the state, as required by 8 USC 1623.
3. Deny discretionary Federal grants as appropriate to states and local governments that violate federal law by offering public benefits to illegal aliens, as prohibited by 8 USC 1621(a).
   

If your Community/City/State/Whatever refuses to follow the Federal Immigration rules, you don’t get the Federal money.

The United States is a nation of immigrants. We must continue to welcome immigrants and foreign workers who come to our country legally, giving priority to those who can advance the nation’s interests and common good. Immigrants and foreign workers who play by the rules need to be rewarded with faster and less burdensome service, not delays that last years. Advancing the following initiatives will require close cooperation between all levels of government, the business community, and concerned citizens:

1. English As Official Language. Make English the official language of the United States to promote assimilation and legal immigrants’ success, and require English proficiency in order for any foreign person to be granted lawful permanent resident status.
2. Freedom from Political Oppression. Preserve U.S. laws and policies to ensure that the United States remains a beacon and a haven for persons fleeing political oppression, while assuring appropriate admission standards are maintained.
3. Service to Country. Place those foreign persons who are lawfully present in the country and who serve honorably in the Armed Forces of the United States on a faster, surer track to U.S. citizenship.

Point for Fred in my book.

Checked Rudy’s website.  Nothing on Immigration; Minus TWO Points.  Romney has a Video clip from a “town hall” meeting.  One point against Mitt for not putting it in print.  Mike Huckabee has some points, and a clip - only 1/2 a point, for lack of specifics.

Didn’t bother to check on McCain - he is as unelectable as Hillary, so I don’t really care.

So, my current rankings (which I just started, so these are the base numbers):

Fred Thompson: 1

Rudy Giuliani: -2

Mitt Romney: -1

Mike Huckabee: .5

Courtesy of the BBC:

Mexico’s parliament has condemned what it says is a border violation by US workers building a controversial barrier between the two countries.

Legislators say workers and equipment building a section of the barrier have gone 10 metres (yards) into Mexico.

Mexican legislators said they had photographs and video, taken on Monday, of the workers and heavy-duty construction equipment that showed them about 10 metres inside Mexico near the border city of Agua Prieta and the town of Douglas, Arizona.

The Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa said she had complained to the US authorities and that the men and equipment had been withdrawn.

The sheer brass cajones it takes for the Meixcan government to take this stance is breathtaking, in view of their tacit approval and support of the flow of illegals from their nation across that same border into ours, for the express purposes of providing an outlet for those discontented with the dismal economic and political situation in Mexico, and to get access to a huge influx of American Dollars (second only to Oil in its effects on propping up the Mexican economy).

So how does OUR Ambassador to Mexixo respond?  Why, like ALL American Diplomats, he APOLOGIZES:

In a statement, the US Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza said: “The US is sensitive to Mexican concerns… [and] has the deepest respect for the integrity of the sovereignty of Mexican soil”.  

Of course, the Mexicans do not return that Respect.  In the view of many Mexicans (both in Mexico and in the US), our land IS theirs.  Like the Palestinians, they have been unjustly deprived of their property, and if we won’t give it back, they will take it back, one way or another.