illegal immigrants who have lived in the United States for twenty-five years
Gingrich 'mesh-muddles' all around that number.
When one news person asks him about the '25 years', Gingrich says 'he didn't say that'. In another question, a newsie asks him, then, if 15 years is okay/too long/not long enough, and he responds that it should be more like 25 years.
Gingrich slithers through his responses on the issue, as the newsies try to pin him down on specifics.
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Other concerns:
What about the 'boards'? Voluntary or paid. If paid, that is another level of bureacracy to handle millions of people and create panels to review their cases. What are the 'standards' for board membership? What are board regulations? Without those, a group of locals could just get together and approve any/all applications -- thus defeating the intent of the program.
What about 'Red Cards'? That will also add another layer of bureaucracy to handle and maintain* the millions of new applicants.
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*Maintain? Does Gingrich honestly expect a Red Card program to be maintained, thus laws enforced, etc., or is this another governmental scam to legalize millions and then just forget about them -- basically like the GOV does with those over-extended on the current Visa program?
No, you have that backwards.
Diane Sawyer tried to change the time spent in the US, and Newt said, "I didn't say that."
No, you have that backwards.
Diane Sawyer tried to change the time spent in the US, and Newt said, "I didn't say that."
Actually, what he said was a panel would judge what to do. The problem with laws is they are made in Washington, by bureaucrats. A panel could see the difference between someone that is MS13 and someone that has worked, paid taxes, and contributed to the US. If you want the guy out, send him home. If he's a fruit picker that has 3 DWI's and 2 wives, why would we keep him? Newt is just saying we can't spend the money throwing out people who are probably more patriotic than many here are. The ones with ties to La Raza or drug cartels, can go. We spend alot of money chasing mom's with 3 kids born here, just to send them home for no reason. The DWI's that have 3 alias's get treated the same as the guy working at the chicken plant for 15 years.
Newt would have to get elected and get such a program financed and passed, a big challenge for today. I think we worry too much about one issue and throw out the baby with the bathwater. I can almost guarantee none of the others will do anything like no one else has in 30 years. Bush didn't, and he knew the problems it caused in Texas. Newt can and will fix the budget and that is what we need more than tweaking Immigration. If I'm on a panel to decide, the bloodsucker on food stamps with multiple ID's, and a few run in's with the law will go home anyway.
If you want a hard and fast law that everybody without papers goes home, then we will spend billions clogging the courts to get rid of people more law abiding than some in my family. My daughter works for a local Sheriff and sees this everyday. Many "citizens" should be beaten and shot, while some guy working at the mill lives next door and hides in the shadows and volunteers at the local church. I know about the murderers and rapists, but we don't do anything to them already. At least a panel would have some sort of filter to keep some judgement in the process.