Posted on 11/25/2011 9:26:18 PM PST by TitansAFC
NAPLES, FL -- Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich defended his immigration policy after days of criticism from other GOP contenders – reiterating that he does not support amnesty -- on Friday night before his largest crowd yet on the campaign trail.
"I am not for amnesty for anyone. I am not for a path to citizenship for anybody who got here illegally," Gingrich told the crowd of roughly 750 people, many of whom were forced to stand in the hallway...........
"I think the vast majority [of illegal immigrants] will go home and should go home and then should reapply. I do not think anybody should be eligible for citizenship,".....
(Excerpt) Read more at firstread.msnbc.msn.com ...
Freepers have truly jumped the shark if they support newt.
I will never vote for Gingrich.
So much comes out of newt’s mouth even he cannot keep up with it all....
Wow...750 people. Realize that if Palin showed up unannounced in Podunk, IA she’d draw a crowd of 5,000 within an hour...
Get real on this “it’s not amnesty” kick.
Do you really think that if Gingrich got his wish to legalize the illegals but not give them citizenship, there would not be an immediate push to then make them citizens, because, after all, how can you deny 20 million plus residents the right to vote?
Every eight years a new democrat president is elected and lately, every few years a democrat Congress majority is elected. These “resident aliens” would be made citizens by that democrat president on his way home from the inauguration.
Sorry, but your boy Gingrich just committed suicide by stupidity. He has shown himself clueless on the nature and extent of the illegal alien problem. He has also shown that like Eric Holder, the rule of laws means nothing, and laws are just matters of convenience subject to the pandering needs of the day.
Newt had already revealed his true pandering self with his dismissal of the Tea Party objection to Obamacare with his “I don’t think right wing social engineering is any more desirable than left wing social engineering. I don’t think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate.”
His desire for amnesty fits the pattern. Newt is a falling star.
I've known people like that. Too smart to have a lick of common sense, and they make up for their flip-flops by trying to bury you in words.
It's pretty sad to see that the liberal Republican establishment think we are all heartless and inhumane people. Those are serious charges, and it shows why illegal immigration is completely ignored by these liars. They don't understand they aren't gaining support from Hispanics with their pandering, and don't seem to understand there is a difference between legal, and illegal Hispanics, and that supporting the illegal ones doesn't give you support from the legal Hispanics who wouldn't have voted for you otherwise. My best friend is third generation from Mexico, and has nothing in common with illegal immigrants, and doesn't support them.
The display of vile hatred using filthy language towards those in our own party is dramatic. You'd think this place is DU.
A pardon? I suppose if you think a $5000 penalty is amnesty.
English Machine Translation: "Des Moines. After the head position preference in the presidential campaign Republican, Newt Gingrich is now facing a possible backlash from conservative activists, after proposing an immigration reform that he called "humane", but quickly denounced his opponents as an "amnesty.""
“A pardon? I suppose if you think a $5000 penalty is amnesty.”
$5000 is trivial to an illegal who just spent $5000 to a coyote to smuggle him across the border, or to someone who has been illegally working in the USA for 25 years and collecting tens of thousands of dollars in welfare, education, and medical benefits and cash.
Yup. As of now, there are 4 “serious” candidates, Romney, Perry, Gingrich, and Cain. Perry and Gingrich are current illegal lovers, and Romney was an illegal lover until he flip flopped which I don’t buy for one second. Cain is the only one consistently against the parasite invaders, and for that he has my vote.
Now Gingrich called us true Conservatives, who are completely exhausted trying to get this problem resolved and taken serious, “inhumane” for wanting nothing more than our laws enforced. Why are so many supposed Conservatives constantly apologizing for us, insulting us, and acting like there is something wrong with our views?
They act like we are the violent neo-Nazi’s that ignorant liberals slander us with, and they feel they must apologize for our reasonable views for some ridiculous reason. We have nothing to apologize about for being Conservative, and we aren't going to be forced into ignoring such a serious problem as illegal immigration just because they use “filthy language”, that would make you think they were democrats, instead of members of our own party.
We want to stop illegal immigration from literally destroying our nation, and the stances we take are not lacking in compassion, heartless, or inhumane in anyway. We are sick of hearing that kind of slander against us by politicians who want our support. As soon as I hear a word like that it makes me sick, because it's just them attacking us “radical extremist” for wanting to save our nation, and not have politicians who act like puppets of the corrupt Mexican government judging us when they don't seem to have any morals to begin with. Gingrich is done for the same reasons Perry is done. We aren't supporting people who insult us with what are pretty serious allegations.
made citizens by that democrat president
I don't know ask Puerto Rico..he.he.. You can't vote unless you're a full citizen. That's fairly well understood the world over.
Why hasn't Obama granted them Citizenship already?
The real question is what’s the criteria for deportation and how do you handle those that can stay? Forcefully sending all 20 million men, women, and children back over the border won’t happen. If you think that, then tell me who is going to do it and exactly how.....really....? Don't forget a lot of those little ones are now American Citizens.
Newt also wants to shoot them in extremity of their choice. Not really.... but something tells me that wouldn't even be sufficient for you.
If citizenship were the goal, learning English would be a priority but it isn't. America is just a big cash-cow to the North. Of course, any benefits they can accrue while here is just more icing on the cake.
Think of it this way: if there were a place you could go and work for a number of years to acquire property back home in half the time or less than it would otherwise take, wouldn't you be interested? And, if you could sell drugs to the idiots and their children who refuse to hold your illegal presence accountable, imagine the wealth you could create for yourself and family back home.
Citizenship? For what, membership in the biggest Flea Market known to mankind? You'll know the Mexican who's interested in citizenship by their ability to speak English. From my experience, that isn't many.
Politicians need to get off this tangent and build a wall to prevent further invasion and it's consequences. The drain on state's economies is significant when the social costs of harboring illegals is combined with what they send back home. Mowing lawns and washing cars is only some of what they do. Bending over backwards to accommodate them is Gringo Stupid.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.