To objectively rate the presidential candidates on immigration, one can take the non-partisan rating of presidential candidates on 16 immigration issues from NUMBERS USA

http://www.betterimmigration.com/candid ... _gop1.html

and assign a number grade for each of the word evaluations. Using:

5 = excellent
4 = good
3 = fair
2 = poor
1 = bad
0 = abysmal

and sorting by raw score with a converted percentage, results in:

80 100.0% Tancredo (gone)
73 91.3% Hunter
66 82.5% Thompson
58 72.5% Huckabee
55 68.8% Romney
50 62.5% Paul
36 45.0% Giuliani
33 41.3% McCain
33 41.3% Dodd
30 37.5% Biden
25 31.3% Edwards
25 31.3% Richardson
25 31.3% Kucinich
24 30.0% Clinton
21 26.3% Obama