Jason Noble: Another head that's less than two weeks from exploding when Sarah Palin officially endorses Newt Gingrich.
Posted on 11/26/2011 1:01:37 PM PST by presidio9
GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich defended his immigration stance Friday, claiming that he was "not for amnesty."
“I am not for amnesty for anyone. I am not for a path to citizenship for anybody who got here illegally,” Gingrich said at a town hall event in Naples, Florida according to media reports.
“But I am for a path to legality for those people whose ties run so deeply in America that it would truly be a tragedy to try and rip their family apart," said the former House Speaker.
Gingrich has been under fire from some anti-illegal immigration groups since last Tuesday's GOP debate where he spoke out against deporting many illegal immigrant families.
During Friday’s town hall, Gingrich said that if elected he would make securing the border a priority and would support efforts to make English the country's official language.
He said he would also establish a guest-worker program to allow migrants to work in the U.S. But under such a program, businesses which hired undocumented workers would be hit with fines.
"I would have very, very stiff economic penalties for anyone who hires somebody who is not legally inside the system," Gingrich vowed.
At last Tuesday’s GOP debate, Gingrich said that he supported efforts to allow tax-paying illegal immigrants without criminal records to remain in the country or gain citizenship.
“If you've come here recently, you have no ties to this country, you ought to go home, period,” Gingrich had said. “If you've been here 25 years and you 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.”
"I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families which have been here a quarter-century," he added. "I'm prepared to take the heat for saying let's be humane in enforcing the law."
Gingrich has faced criticism for his comments from other Republicans. Rep. Michelle Bachmann (Minn.) said in an interview that Gingrich had the “most liberal position on illegal immigration of any of the candidates in the race.”
Influential Iowa congressman Rep. Steve King (R) described Gingrich’s proposals as a “form of amnesty”
“I wouldn’t agree with him on that policy,” King added, suggesting that Gingrich had hurt his chances of winning his endorsement prior to the Iowa caucuses.
The furor over Gingrich’s immigration stance comes as new national polls place him ahead of Romney in the GOP field.
Nice try but read the quote: "...a path to citizenship for those who are here ILLEGALLY."
If they're here ILLEGALLY and he wants to give them a 'path to citizenship', that is amnesty.
Nice try but read the quote: "...a path to citizenship for those who are here ILLEGALLY."
If they're here ILLEGALLY and he wants to give them a 'path to citizenship', that is amnesty.
Nice try but read the quote: "...a path to citizenship for those who are here ILLEGALLY."
If they're here ILLEGALLY and he wants to give them a 'path to citizenship', that is amnesty.
Nice try but read the quote: "...a path to citizenship for those who are here ILLEGALLY."
If they're here ILLEGALLY and he wants to give them a 'path to citizenship', that is amnesty.
If after 911 we could not get it done - do you really think these disguting politicians in both parties are going to do it?
Sorry for the quadruple post. That’s been happening a lot lately.
That is correct.
Jason Noble: Another head that's less than two weeks from exploding when Sarah Palin officially endorses Newt Gingrich.
If you are here on a VISA that has expired, you are here illegally.
Perry says that those people can still have a path to citizenship, but they go to the BACK OF THE LINE.
Amnesty (from the Greek ἀμνηστία amnestia, oblivion)[citation needed] is a legislative or executive act by which a state restores those who may have been guilty of an offense against it to the positions of innocent people. It includes more than pardon, in as much as it obliterates all legal remembrance of the offense. The word has the same root as amnesia. Amnesty is more and more used to express 'freedom' and the time when prisoners can go free.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty
A 'path to citizenship' for someone who has repeatedly broken the law is amnesty.
No one with any understanding of how our “touchy-feely” federal government makes decisions can possibly believe that if the country provides amnesty in the form of a “path to legality” for some illegals (ie: those who have been here 25 years) that it will stop there.
We all know that once a liberal or a RINO gets a social policy established by law or decree it becomes a “right”, expanding until it encompasses the universe.
Once some illegals have that “right” we will be subjected to hanky-wringing cries of anguish over the lack of “fairness”, cries of racism, lawsuits, demonstrations and soon the “path to legality” will become available to all illegals.
Public housing and food stamps were initiated as programs limited in scope to provide temporary assistance to people down on their luck. Eventually the rules were weakened and the programs were expanded in scope until we now have the 4th or 5th generation of people who have never know any other way to live.
That is what will happen to a “limited” amnesty program. Once it is in place the rules will be changed until there are essentially no restrictions on qualifying.
I can think of plenty of logistal reasons, but I'll make it very simple for you. The US Federal Debt $15 trillion dollars. That's "trillion" with a "T".
I think there are a lot of people here that are trying to over simplify a complex problem.
Lets just make Mexico pay for it. /s
http://wizbangblog.com/2011/08/18/obama-stops-deportations-of-illegal-immigrants/
Deportations from the United States increased by more than 60 percent from 2003 to 2008. It can be done again. Throwing in the towel aka, amnesty, is not a solution.
And I think there are a lot of people here who are pro-ILLEGAL alien.
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