I dated a Serbian woman who said that it happened exactly the same way in her country.
We’re pretty much finished at this point anyway.
Illegals are government growth hormone.
Newt is not pro amenesty. He is not offerring citizenship for illegals. He has the #1 priority of securing the border before anything else. He wants to accellerate the deportation of hardened criminals and make legal immigration easier. I suppose we could rely on illegals to self deport as Romney suggests. I’d sure like self ticketing and self tax audits too for that matter. :-)
But one remarkable thing—though none of the current 4 candidates still standing is particularly strong on immigration, I believe they have all (except possibly Paul) come out in support of border security, opposed the Dream Act, have agreed to e-verify, and are all talking about forcing self-deportation by drying up jobs and benefits for illegals. Santorum has even made favorable statements about ending chain migration and (I think) the visa lottery. These are stands past Republican candidates have seldom taken. That's major progress over the Jorge Bush/Juan McCain era.
BS, the SC primary was tremendously influenced by Newt's debate performance and the assists handed to him by the moderator. Illegal aliens and amnesty received little discussion in those particular debates.
And Newt's talking tough on enforcement and presenting a very nuanced (and impractical) position on amnesty.
Gingrich is ideally suited to move the GOP toward a more politically viable — not to mention humane — immigration policy.
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I’m with Newt on his Immigration Policy. If the GOP does not lean more toward the Gingrich/Perry policy than it does the Romney/Bachmann Policy, we will be the minority Party from here on out. End of story.
You are full of crap. No one in their right mind believes every single illegal will be rounded up and sent packing. Will not happen ever without massive civil disorder and civil war.
I live in Las Vegas, there are 300,000 illegals here. Are you guys coming here with your rubber band guns to move every single one of them out? I didn’t think so. And don’t get me wrong, they are a scourge, I had my offices gasoline firbombed by illegals (I could have burned alive) and another set cleaned out my storage locker, but unless you guys are willing to go to bloody war I don’t think anything Gingrich has said is out of line with reality.
So go vote for pandering Romney you morons, cause I guarantee he won’t do a damn thing.
How is Gingrich putting all those people in the military, when..
The Pentagon proposed budget cuts on Thursday that would slash the size of the U.S. military by eliminating thousands of jobs, mothballing ships and trimming air squadrons in an effort to shift strategic direction and reduce spending by $487 billion over a decade.
The funding request, which includes painful cuts for many states, sets the stage for a new struggle between President Barack Obama’s administration and Congress over how much the Pentagon should spend on national security as the country tries to curb trillion-dollar budget deficits.
US Army chief ‘comfortable’ with smaller force as Pentagon prepares cuts
Make no mistake, the savings we are proposing will impact all 50 states and many districts across America,” Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told a news conference at the Pentagon. “This will be a test of whether reducing the deficit is about talk or action.”
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/26/10244240-panetta-military-cuts-to-hit-all-50-states
Romney supports a much wider form of amnesty.
Surrending to illegals is the new conservatism!
“Vet?”
Next you’re going to tell us he’s divorced! Who knew?
This was nothing than you wanting to post an attack on Newt on the sidebar under the guise of “breaking news.”
In other “breaking news:” Truman actually defeated Dewey, despite the misprint.
Once again, the makeup of congress will be MORE important than who resides in the white house (hut?).
The president does not make law, congress does.
The only immigration “REFORM” I will accept is to begin vigorously enforcing the laws already on the books without exception.
This is not “amnesty” and it’s not a “radical change in our culture.” Amnesty was what Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both did because neither one of them was able to make a permanent, rational change in our immigration system and they simply passed the problem along.
Gingrich is actually suggesting something that will deal with the current backlog of illegal immigrants - expelling some, while giving others legal residency but not citizenship, based on the decisions of local citizen boards and upon fulfillment of certain conditions. He is also creating a guest worker and visa program that will make it easier to come here legally and also easier to leave legally when the time comes, thereby taking away any excuse for illegal entry or illegal residence on the part of either the individuals or their employers.
Otherwise, you will probably get genuine “amnesty” from Obama in the next four years, with no significant changes made to the broken immigration system (except for an open door for more Muslims) and a set up for a repeat in another 25 years.
In California between 1952 and 1988, Republicans won every Presidential race except 1964 (Goldwater).
Democrats have won the last five elections. You don’t think Hispanics were the difference.
http://www.270towin.com/states/California
We need to stop focusing on the 20-25 year illegals, and start worring about the 24 hr illegals!
Does it even make sense to discuss Mitt Romney's "positions"? If you don't like one of them - just wait a while.
'Have a heart' amnesty ping!