Here are a few mistakes, and things she left out:
Thomas Sowell agreed with much of Gingrich's plan, but thought it was too much of a political risk at this time.
Gingrich was a leading opponent of the DREAM Act. His plan would allow only minors who were brought to this country by their parents to gain citizenship through military service. It is not DREAM Act II.
Tantaros neglects to mention that none of the other candidates actually HAS a comprehensive immigration plan. They are content to demonize and take pot shots from the peanut gallery. This type of political gamesmanship from Democrats is the primary reason that we have not been able to fix Social Security or balance the budget.
We have immigration laws that must be enforced.
Claiming we must revise laws is just another way to avoid doing what must be done: enforcing the existent laws.
Once we have 11 million permanent legal residents who cannot vote, how long does anyone think it will take before granting them full citizenship (with the ability to vote for Democrats) becomes the next big civil rights issue?
Cain does. He want's to electicute them and feed them to the gators.
And his view on climate change (along with Nancy Pelosi) proves he has a better grasp on that particular issue than does GOP rivals…puke.
Pie in the sky nonsense.
“smarts ... guts to say them out loud. Gingrich is a guy who often says what is impolitic ... refreshing, especially when most politicians are afraid to buck the status quo”
“If you have come here recently, you have no ties to this country, you ought to go home, period,” Gingrich has said.
You ought to go home. Now there’s a profile in courage.
(But you won’t? Aw, c’mon! No? Por favor! Pretty please?)
“Immigration is a great thing. We want the Chinese scientists, the patent creators, the Andrew Carnegies and the Greek diner owners ...”
This article reeks.
This country was founded by rebellious Anglo-Americans who fought to the death against big government, fool. No Hispanic nation has ever stood for our values. They had their chance. They had their own countries. We don't want them ruining ours.
Once they have legal status, e.g. red card, then courts or executive order can give them citizens more easily. In anycase, this would further increase illegal immigration.
Fence and e-verify would largely solve issue. We don’t need amnesty plan.
They’re gonna sell the beltway turd if it’s the last thing they do.
I for one am sick and tired of this paradigm that it is “inhumane” to insist that illegal immigrants go home.
We don’t want to torture them. We don’t want to abuse them. We don’t want to turn them into slave labor or chain them to posts in the desert to die of thirst. We really don’t want anything bad to happen to them at all.
We simply want them to go home.
I have a feeling we're not really talking about people who have been here for at least 25 years. Most of those were probably amnestied already under the 1986 law signed by RWR.
The 25 year requirement is going to be reduced after the election. The question is to what? Five, ten??
LLS
CHOICE B: Elect Gingrich and get the largest amnesty in history - for a minimum of 3.5 million illegals - larger than 1986, and via a LAW that he SIGNS.
Sorry...but I want another choice.
(Now let's see the NewtBots try and bash Roy Beck of NumbersUSA, who has been battling illegal immigration since Newt was an Alvin Toffler world-government Progressive)
What's wrong with the existing laws?
Oh, I forgot.
We don't enforce them.
And for those who have forgotten something else...
80% of new immigrant citizens vote for the Democratic Party.
If new citizens voted 80% for Conservatives, do you think the Progressive Left would support Comprehensive Reform?
That's not saying much.
We're not going to get illegal immigration stopped until we wise up and remove all of the incentives to come here illegally. It doesn't matter how "humanely" you treat some illegals. That's merely adding another incentive to break our laws.
Cut off all access to state and federal welfare benefits.
Cut off all access to food stamps.
Cut off all access to free medical care (outside of life and death emergencies)
Cut off all access to subsidized housing benefits.
Cut off all access to free public school education for their children.
Cut off all access to state and federal tax refunds via the use of employee identification numbers.
Cut off all access to employment through the use of the E-Verify system.
Implement these simple, legal measures, and they will self-deport in a human tsunami.
The first candidate who puts this idea on the table, and pounds it relentlessly, will shoot up in the polls.
What happened 25-years ago:
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
Signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on November 6, 1986
In brief the act:
required employers to attest to their employees' immigration status.
made it illegal to knowingly hire or recruit unauthorized immigrants.
granted amnesty to certain seasonal agricultural illegal immigrants.
granted amnesty to illegal immigrants who entered the United States before January 1, 1982 and had resided there continuously.
If the choice is between Newt Gingrich and Barack Obama, I would rather see Obama get reelected. I think Obama would be better on immigration and that is saying something.
He’s pandering, plain and simple.
I am tired of all the catering and caving to ethnic minorities, especially ones who have blatantly broken our laws.
The illegals are the ones who have torn apart their own families. Our laws have not done this and Newt knows it.
There is a subtle racism in giving preferential treatment to an ethnic group, as if patronizingly acknowledging they are not capable of more honest, ethical behavior.