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All he said was, “Let’s be humane in enforcing the law.” That was my reaction last night when Newt Gingrich argued that the federal government should refrain from deporting illegal immigrants who had been in the U.S. for many years if the effect would be the break up of a family. I did not take him to be proposing a new law conferring amnesty. To do what the former Speaker proposed would require no change in U.S. law. All you’d need is the sensible application of prosecutorial discretion. A successful immigration enforcement policy, easily implemented under current law, would secure...

Were Gingrich strategically focused on scooping up primary voters discontented with Romney, surely he would have said something about Romney's past and present liberalism. He didn't say a word. Romney had a so-so debate performance, but it probably doesn't matter, since Gingrich didn't bother to engage him. Helping Romney even more was that Gingrich decided to use a national security debate to remind conservatives of the nuances of his "humane" approach to illegal immigration -- a lecture, for whatever its merits, conservative primary voters probably don't want to hear and particularly not in the scolding tone in which Newt delivered...

Think carefully about what Newt said. He said, "Is it inhumane to deport an illegal immigrant who came to the United States 25 years ago," Why did he choose 25 years ago and not 20 or 30. People assume that 25 years was just a number that Newt pulled out of his ass. It is not. Think back about about what happened 25 years ago. That would be 1986. That was the year Ronald Reagan's bill gave amnesty to the then current residents in exchange for sealing the border. The border wasn't sealed and millions more Mexicans and other poured...

Hosted by the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute, the theme of tonight's Republican presidential debate is foreign policy and national security.The debate is being held at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.CNN is carrying the debate live at 8 p.m. EST.Participating candidates are: businessman Herman Cain, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Speaker Newt Gingrich, Reps. Ron Paul (TX) and Michele Bachmann (MN), former Gov. Jon Huntsman, and former Sen. Rick Santorum.

I think this was the best debate so far this year. I really like how Newt stood up to defend his stance on immigration. Who do you think won? POLL: Who won the 11/22/2011 CNN Republican National Security Debate? Vote: Click HereWithout a doubt it was Newt, our former speaker and next president.