The problem with your post is that you equate Newt's plan to amnesty, even though he specifically states they would NOT get citizenship.This doesn't have to do with citizenship. It has to do with legalization of their status to stay and work here. Essentially, they will be able to receive everything a citizen does except vote. 50% of illegal aliens lack even a high school degree. They are filling 8 million jobs in this country at a time when 25 million Americans are looking for a full time job. We already have 300,000 to 400,000 anchor babies who receive birthright citizenship.
Yet you are missing that the Heritage Foundation is specifically defining amnesty as granting citizenship. Only the families of CITIZENS are entitled to family reunification.
Not so. Green card holders can have their families join them. People in an LPR status have the right to bring spouses and minor children into the country. And it is pure sophistry to believe that once you legalize the 12 to 20 million illegals in this country, there won't be a move to provide them with a path to citizenhip. And I doubt that Congress would ever pass what amounts to second class citizenship for millions of people. It is the camel's nose under the tent.
Not so. Green card holders can have their families join them. People in an LPR status have the right to bring spouses and minor children into the country. Yes, but ONLY spouses and minor children, i.e. immediate family. Citizens are allowed to bring in almost all relatives, their parents, grandparents, aunts, cousins, even in-laws. The Heritage Study you were talking about was surely referencing that in their numbers.
And surely, if you are defining a new pathway to LPR status, you can limit it more than it currently is in other pathways.
Listen, I agree with you more than I agree with Newt. But realistically, Newt's approach of closing the border and beginning to deport illegals (just not 100% of them) is one million times better than any president of my 50 year lifetime. And one HUNDRED million times better than Obama. And even though I wish this weren't true, I really don't believe a president could succeed in trying to deport them all. On this issue moderates tend to support SOME deportation, but won't go for 100%, so together with the liberal votes that don't want any deportation, any attempt to do 100% would be doomed to failure.