>>I am not convinced majority of legal residents and citizens are in favor of amnesty to illegals.<<
Of course only a minority of citizens are in favor of a blanket amnesty. (Granted, the Democrat politicians would vote en masse for it, but their constituents wouldn’t.)
But the point Gingrich, and Perry, and me for that matter, keep making is that some degree of fairness has to enter the process. Someone in here recently made the point that the borders were essentially wide open for years; we almost encouraged illegals to come here to work.
Yes, we should send most of them home and require them to go through a check to obtain a work permit, but in some cases simple fairness dictates that we consider all the circumstances before automatically deporting them as illegal.
Mark my words, if we don’t do that, we will permanently lose the Hispanic vote, and I’m talking about the legal Hispanic vote. Some of you sound like the principal who suspends the kindergartner for bringing a plastic butter knife to school...totally devoid of judgement and incapable of considering the facts and circumstances of an individual case. That’s all both Perry and Gingrich are advocating, at least overtly.
We already submarined Perry, one of our better candidates versus Romney, with this ridiculous logic. Now we’re supposed to take down Gingrich. You know what you’re going to get? Romney, who will walk back his anti-illegal-immigrant talk the very day he secures the nomination.
Better that Gingrich’s honest stance results in the rehabilitation of Perry’s image...
Please read my post #67.
If legal Hispanics get pissed because we want to enforce our laws, then they are undesirable legal residents or legal US citizens. But as a legal citizen myself, I know that is not true.
Why did we even consider letting Third Worlders into our country to begin with? How can we cleanse our culture now with the detritus of Latin America, Asia, and Africa?