Look, I see things as they are not as I want them to be. If you believe Newt is going to deport illegals you are kidding yourself. You can not legally differentiate between Grandpa and Dad in America. It is a constitutional thing. Newt is fos on illegal immigration.
Gingrich didn’t say he was going to deport them. (Even leaving aside logistical concerns, you can’t do this simply from an economic point of view.) He said that cases of long-term illegal immigrants have to be dealt with by a citizen review board that would look for certain features and make a decision on that basis. And the management of new legal immigrants would be handled by private companies which would actually make the lousy government run system that we now have into something functional. It’s not being enforced now because it is so full of holes that nobody knows where to begin. Gingrich is right, the whole thing needs to be redone.
I agree with you.
And here's Santorum, agreeing with Newt on illegal immigration, several months back.
Roll tape....
GINGRICH: [to Santorum]: We should make English the official language of government. We should insist that first-generation immigrants who come here learn American history in order to become citizens. We should also insist that American children learn American history. And then find a way to deal with folks who are already here, some of whom, frankly, have been here 25 years, are married with kids, live in our local neighborhood, go to our church. It's got to be done in a much more humane way than thinking that to automatically deport millions of people.
SANTORUM: My solution is very similar to Newt Gingrich's. We should not have a debate talking about how we don't want people to come to this country, but we want them to come here like my grandfather and my father came here. They made sacrifices. They came in the 1920s. There were no promises. There were no government benefits. They came because they wanted to be free and they wanted to be good law-abiding citizens.
(My bold)