Posted on 11/28/2011 5:48:35 AM PST by heiss
It is only because “amnesty” got broadened form its actual meaning to include anything other than “deport them all” (and not by Newt’s critics, but by folks insistent on stricter immigration policy and stricter enforcement for decades before), but that the word sometimes reverts to its actual meaning when it suits whoever is using it, that Newt is obliged to create neologisms.
Neologisms which create precision, which is what “path to non-deportation” drawing a distinction from “path to citizenship” does, are not Newspeak. Newspeak debases the language, the coinage of thought, by making it imprecise and malleable to political ends. You may not like Newt, or his ideas, but he is very precise in what he means, and uses language very carefully.
Nice strawman. Being against amnesty can also include making illegals want to self-deport.
So having set up your own sophistry on amnesty, you create an articifical necessity for Newt to create neologisms.
When past experience shows that simply enforcing existing laws and eliminating bennies would go a long ways towards making illegals want to self-deport.
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