Has Gingrich given any indication of an unwillingness to enforce the law? I believe that Gingrich is one of the few candidates who understands that the duty of the President of the United States is to faithfully execute the laws of the United States of America.
The problem we have had for a half a century is that no president has bothered to enforce the laws that are on the books. So effectively we have been without any immigration laws. The result is that we probably have about 20 million American Citizen children of illegal aliens growing up and either now eligible or soon to be eligible to vote. We will never win another election if we deport their parents. We need to find a way of securing the border and legitimizing the parents of these children. Newt's approach is clearly not perfect, but we aren't going to be deporting 12 million parents of American Citizens. No president is going to do that. We need to secure the border and then find a way to ensure that what has happened over the last half century is not repeated.
Maybe I'm a RINO for taking the position that we have be be realistic. But I'm not about to pretend that any of the other candidates is not going to end up with some kind of plan where a large chunk of illegal aliens are allowed to continue to live here.
All of these candidates is for some kind of compromise on this issue. So far Gingrich is the only one to be honest enough to say so.
Good post!