Gigrich, in any event, is going out of his way to make sure that illegals do NOT get the right to vote, by proposing deportation for most of them, and offering the small percentage who remain legal status, but not citizenship.
Do you really believe that if Newt were to become President and pass his Red Card nonsense, that it would actually stand? Do you really think that the red-carded wouldn’t eventually be granted a path to citizenship?
Even if the Democrats went along initially (as a calculated first step), eventually the policy would be attacked as creating second class citizens. Proponents of this policy will become the new racists, bigots, xenophobes, etc.
And there is no reason to think Newt would have the backbone or right state of mind to either stand up to or ignore this garbage. In fact it would probably be the opposite.
Remember, Newt completely sold out and betrayed conservatives on racial preferences back in the 90s. He could have passed a strong, popular anti-racial preferences bill (as he pretty much promised to do before he was actually Speaker) that would have been hard for Clinton to veto. But once he actually had the power and position to do this, he changed his tune.
He’s never been called to account for this unfortunately.