Newt Gingrich’s stance on illegal aliens...
“In three years and eight months, we defeated fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and imperial Japan. Today, we can’t build a (border) fence,” Gingrich said. “I would propose cutting off all federal funds to any city that declares itself a sanctuary city.”
He said that if UPS and FedEx could keep track of millions of packages a day, the federal government should be able to track illegal immigrants in the country.
But Gingrich added: “I don’t believe we’ll ever pass a bill which requires us to hunt down every single person” who has been in this country for some time illegally.
Gingrich also said he would favor a “very sophisticated, very clean” guest worker program.
“I think we should go back to the World War Two selective service model where local citizens are certified at a local level, where they actually know the person,” he said.
“If the person is a good citizen, has genuine ties to the United States, has genuine roots, they still don’t get amnesty, they still don’t get citizenship, they still don’t get the right to vote. They do get the legal right to be a resident.”
Newt's immigration 'ideas' are idiotic and dangerously naive (or merely disingenuous). What if these 'boards' decide to keep every illegal, like L.A., Seattle, Houston et al would most likely do? They are already 'sanctuary cities'. And his endorsement of a 'military-only DREAM Act' is absurd. As this article points out, it is totally unworkable and a fig leaf for blanket amnesty: Military Cutbacks Undermine Major Rationale for “DREAM Act”.