Hispanic Activists Urge GOP To Follow Gingrich's Lead On Immigration

Guardian (UK) ^ | November 25, 2011 | Ed Pilkington

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Hispanic Activists Urge GOP To Follow Gingrich's Lead On Immigration Newt Gingrich's call for 'humane' approach to migrants earns plaudits from Latino voters – but propels the former speaker into an increasingly hostile debate within the Republican party

Ed Pilkington 23 November

Newt Gingrich's appeal for a "humane" approach to US immigration in the latest televised debate has propelled him into the thick of one of the most bitterly divisive issues within the Republican party, at the same time earning him plaudits from Hispanic activists battling against new legal clampdowns sweeping across the southern states.

Latino groups in Alabama and Arizona, where some of the harshest anti-immigration laws have been passed in recent months, welcomed Gingrich's comments as a sign, they said, of a changing tone in the debate. In Alabama, where police officers are under instruction to round up anyone they suspect of being undocumented, campaigners embraced his call for a new attitude.

"It's about time that we moved away from extremism and take up, as he said, a more human approach," said Gwendolyn Ferreti, a researcher on immigration who has been campaigning against Alabama's new law, HB56.

Until recently, the prevailing view among the Republican leadership was that a way had to be found to bring up to 12 million undocumented Latinos in the US into the legal fold. Both for economic reasons, to ensure a supply of cheap labour, and for reasons of political self-interest given the growing size of the Hispanic electorate, a compromise had to be reached.

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Hey, you are living in Tuesday Nov 29th and I am still in Monday Nov 28!! Funny thought.

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It is already Wednesday November 30th in Switzerland right now

It is also about noon in China right now

If I fly westward at 20,000mph I may get to Sunday November 27th

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When my son was traveling the world I had a linked site I would check to see what time of the day it was for him. Thailand, Egypt, etc, glad he got to see them because he sure couldn’t go there now! Even Europe is in turmoil.

He would go to internet cafe’s to email me. I know I told you all about it at the time.

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Yup - I recall that -

Cairo is bad news now

“Arab Winter” has put a chill on things many had praised as “democracy” -

“democracy” abroad is just as bad as “democrats” in the USA

Enough Hussein Junior speeches in Cairo

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The whole world seems to be churning now, bad things happening everywhere. Obama has traveled the world running down our country and looking and sounding like an idiot. I can't help but feel he has had a cause and effect on all of these happenings.

Now they are burning him in effigy and the Hate America rants are even worse.