Folks are making too big a deal over this. Newt certainly doesn't advocate surrendering to the thugs as somebody put it and I'm pretty sure he said to enforce the laws on the books. That would include this tragedy.
I personally think the border should be guarded by US military forces that we withdraw from Europe. Civilian Border Patrol should handle arrests resulting from firefight survivors. ROE should reflect the invasion of home soil aspects that we've been dealing with for so many decades. That's just for penetrations of our national borders. Folks already here illegally is another matter. Please hold your flames. I sent my fireproof jammies out to be cleaned.
You don’t need fireproof jammies with me.
The difference between Newt and Romney is Newt tells us what he will do and Romney tells us what we want to hear (and is totally untrustworthy). I will vote for neither.
My bottomline on a Republican candidate for the Presidency: the President upholds the laws passed by the Congress, period. I want a President with priciples who will follow the Constitution, not crony capitalism. One of those laws includes our immigration laws.
This crap about not splitting-up families is meant to jerk heart strings. I stopped being affected after the deaths of our citizens started accumulating by the thousands due to the actions of illegal aliens. I single Mexico out because its own internal policy is to push for Mexicans to go the U.S., not assimulate but return what they view as part of Mexico returned to that nation.
“I personally think the border should be guarded by US military forces that we withdraw from Europe...”; agreed, and I would add the Middle East to that, as well. There is a reason historians refer to the ME as the graveyard of Empires. That place will only change because the people who live there want it to change. It isn’t our responsibility to make it so. Meanwhile, our troops are needed here along our border.