Below is the key provision in Newt’s proposal to let in illegals.
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Congress must charge the Department of Justice to establish a “citizens’ review” process for those here outside the law. It would establish committees to process these cases in individual communities and determine who will continue on this path to legality, and who will be sent home. Congress must define understandable, clear, objective legal standards that will be applied equally during this process.
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This is the key language where the USA would get screwed. The problem here is not that Congress would set out clear guidelines—rather the problem is that local would have the ultimate AUTHORITY to determine “who will continue on this path to legality”.
It absolutely does NOT matter what guideline the Congress lays down. It will be obeyed to the letter in American counties. But in counties that have heavy illegal populations —distant congressional directives will be totally IGNORED. These counties will let in EVERYONE—especially from countries of the county’s dominant ethnic group. These counties will become counties that attract illegals from all over the USA. Further these counties will attract and give entry to illegals from all over the world.
If you don’t get this then study what happened to the Reagan law that was passed in 1986. The border enforcement part of the law was totally ignored and the Mexicans saw the law as a surrender and began to pour over the border.
Excellent points.
If a written law is not enforced, then what’s the point of the law?
If the Constitution can be whimsically interpreted by any federal judge, then what’s the point of a Constitution?
And voila, lots of Nuevo Mexico Cities and the like.
It would be ugly. Ghettos.
If there is a bright side of it, the ghettos concentrating the “ex illegales” in a few small spots will reduce their electoral impact versus spreading out.
But I think Congress is going to barf at the idea of these ghettos. And as now, nothing will be done.
I think you’re right.
I don’t think we have an alternative, candidate-wise, but we sure as shootin’ could be raising a bigger ruckus about this than we are.
As it is, we are sending the message, as I hear so often hear, that conservatives simply “don’t care” about anything except beating Obama.
I totally want to defeat Obama. But there’s more that needs to be done.
hear = here
Sorry.
Ugh.
Exactly, we don’t need new laws to address the illegal immigration problem, we simply need to enforce the laws we already have. Newt is being dishonest.