Posted on 11/23/2011 9:29:46 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In openly embracing a more relaxed approach to immigration than many conservative activists, Newt Gingrich on Tuesday night stepped directly into one of the fiercest debates within the Republican Party.
The former House speaker, during the GOP presidential debate, tied his position to everything from law-and-order to family values to religion. But he still took a major political risk in suggesting that illegal aliens who have lived in the U.S. for a long time should not be deported.
"If you've been here 25 years and you've got three kids and two grandkids, you've been paying taxes and obeying the law, you belong to a local church, I don't think we're going to separate you from your family, uproot you forcefully and kick you out," Mr. Gingrich said, providing the debate's most striking moment.
The comment didn't reflect a new position for Mr. Gingrich. He supported a much-debated 1986 law that provided a path to citizenship and he sponsors a website, "The Americano," which looks at issues important to Hispanics....
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All their children were born here. If you saw a picture of my great grandparents, you'd never even think of asking "Why did people go to America"?
I married an Italian. His father changed their name so he could get a job here in upstate NY.
“If you’ve been here 25 years and you’ve got three kids and two grandkids, you’ve been paying taxes and obeying the law, you belong to a local church, I don’t think we’re going to separate you from your family, uproot you forcefully and kick you out,” Mr. Gingrich said, providing the debate’s most striking moment.
Yeah, the longer you commit the crime, the greater the chance you’ll be rewarded for it. Great job, Neutie. Twenty-five years and they couldn’t find the time to try the legal apprroach to immigration? Maybe they were too busy counterfeiting drivers licenses, matricula cards, signing up for food stamps, driving while intoxicated, visiting ERs at taxpayer expense, etc. The same hard “work” also prevented them from learning English.
Gingrich = amnesty.
This is what Pat Buchanan says on immigration. You tell me how that is “crazy”,and which politician has a better plan:
“Stop the invasion from the south; limit immigration
Buchanan said his exclusion from the three televised debates between Bush and Gore kept viewers from a real discussion of issues like immigration. “One of the great social crises of this country is unrestricted immigration and an invasion from the south,” he said. “I will cut back legal immigration to 250,000 a year and I will defend America’s border, if necessary with American troops.”
Source: Zachary Coile, San Francisco Examiner Oct 27, 2000
http://www.issues2000.org/Celeb/Pat_Buchanan_Immigration.htm
Pat Buchanan on China
China trade pact is a complete sellout
Buchanan branded the Clinton Administration’s trade deal with China a “complete sellout.” Buchanan said the agreement, reached on Nov. 15, would continue a move toward world government at the expense of American workers. He said the minute he is elected president, “the new world order crashes.”
Source: Boston Globe, p. A6, “Political Briefs” Nov 17, 1999
Impose tariffs on China; end World Bank loans
Beijing does not deserve the same preferential treatment as Britain. The US should negotiate a reciprocal treaty with China that imposes on its goods at least the same tariffs and taxes Beijing imposes on ours, and we should veto any additional World Bank and Asian Development Bank loans to China. These are nothing but foreign aid.
Buchanan had it right, both on immigration and trade with the Chicoms. Too bad we got Bush instead.
I wonder why more Americans , even on here, don't see that solution that Buchanan gave us 11 years ago, stop illegal and 3rd world immigration and stop the invasion of factory-destroying China products.
Buchanan has evolved his solutions to an even higher level.His books are a must read for every American.
For the last 20 years, the U.S. government and politicians have allowed China , Mexico etc. to destroy the U.S..
Pat has ALWAYS been right on the subject. He makes so much sense that it's important to demonize the guy with all that anti-semitic BS that pops up every time his name gets mentioned.
Very true.
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