It’s not confusing, it’s pandering!
No one actually knows what Gingrich would do on immigration. Maybe not even Gingrich knows.
In reality, none of us know what any of them would do on anything once they are president. We can only do our best to push them to do the right thing.
There can’t be multiple contradictory policies. You can’t pander if you can’t deliver.
Newt is an idea guy, and sometimes his ideas are brilliant. Other times they stink. This looks to be one of the stinkier versions. But he’s not utterly unreasonable, for example how he backed off of global warming.