Posted on 11/23/2011 9:28:58 PM PST by South40
DES MOINES Having just taken his place at the front of the Republican presidential pack, Newt Gingrich now faces a potential backlash from conservative activists here in Iowa over an immigration proposal that he called humane but that his opponents quickly decried as providing amnesty.
The former House speaker appears to have alienated some of the conservatives who had warmed to his candidacy by saying Tuesday in a candidates debate that he would allow millions of illegal immigrants who have settled in the United States to become legal residents.
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Good questions but I don't think we can know everything concnerning an illegal. Here are just some of things that Newt wants to require and do.....
"Proficiency in English within a certain number of years, similar to the requirement for naturalization, will be required for anyone who seeks continued legal status in the United States."
"A key step in our future strength as a country must be to reinstate the importance of America in our citizenship process and our education process."
"For guest workers, the new tamper-proof, biometric cards will replace the e-verify system, which has some promising elements, but is too error-prone. Employers will be able to swipe prospective employees biometric cards, and immediately be able to confirm that these workers are in the country legally."
"Applicants must first pass a criminal background check, and then the local committees will assess applications based on family and community ties, and ability to support oneself via employment without the assistance of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other entitlement programs."
"We must end the practice of catch and release, under which dangerous criminals here illegally are caught by law enforcement, but then quickly returned to society. When someone is here illegally and is dangerous, there should be expedited procedures to remove them from the United States as rapidly as possible."
How about they go through the proper immigration procedures,make sure that their children speak English before they enter public school at any level,paying for it themselves without any taxpayer help before they and their children are even considered for citizenship?
Remove automatic citizenship for anchor babies and strip all anchor babies of their bogus citizenship.
Why should we have to pay for and go through the hassle of having biometric cards because of illegal trespassers who have no respect for us,our laws,language,culture,traditions,form of government,hard won wages that they steal from us with the help of our government enablers and destroy our schools and medical system?
As for teaching them about citizenship,that’s a bad,sad joke.
Why should we have to suffer through all of this?
What you have described here sounds like a big BS scam on us,the American people.
Forget it!!!
I don’t think you read my post, for if you did, you’d have read how the biggest problem is that the government is giving them everything necessary for them to *not* assimilate.
Remove that and simple economics will force them to learn English and American culture just to get and keep a job.
And those that refuse to assimilate will starve and be tossed out on the streets... just like the last major wave of immigrants (1880~1920’s).
But whereas those really had no way to leave... these do. And so those that don’t want to assimilate will have the choice of starving or leaving. And they’ll leave.
As for the rest, they’ll assimilate and become Americans. Again, just like the last time.
That is, as long as we treat them the way we did the last time around.
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