Re: Gingrich and Immigration

You didn't finish the sentence PlainOl'.

 

What Gingrich said, was that it would be wrong to deport someone who has lived here for 25 years or so, paid taxes, raised a family, and adopted our very way of life. Gingrich proposed citizen panels to make such determinations.  In the same breath,  Gingrich reaffirmed his commitment to finish building the fence along the Mexican border, and to support those states like Arizona, South Carolina, Alabama and others who are attempting to assist the Federal Government in curtailing illegal immigration.  Gingrich also supports trying to get a handle on how many illegal aliens we have in this  Nation, something that the Obama Administration has refused to do.

 

 

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 6:30 PM, plainolamerican <plainolamerican@gmail.com> wrote:

Gingrich said
that it would not be "humane" to deport someone

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he's wrong
it's inhumane to allow someone to live in the shadows and be exploited
by greedy lawbreaking American businessmen who will sacrifice our laws
for a buck

On Nov 29, 5:08 pm, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A rather thoughtful article from Sowell:

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> *Gingrich and Immigration*
> *Thomas Sowell*
> *November 29, 2011*
>
> http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/11/29/gingrich_and_i...

>  Now that Newt Gingrich has become the latest in a series of Republican
> front-runners, he is getting the kinds of scrutiny and attacks that have
> done in other front-runners.
>
> One of the issues that have aroused concern among conservative Republicans
> is that of amnesty for illegal immigrants, especially after Gingrich said
> that it would not be "humane" to deport someone who has been living and
> working here for years.
>
> Let's go back to square one. The purpose of American immigration laws and
> policies is not to be either humane or inhumane to illegal immigrants. The
> purpose of immigration laws and policies is to serve the national interest
> of this country.
>
> There is no inherent right to come live in the United States, in disregard
> of whether the American people want you here. Nor does the passage of time
> confer any such right retroactively.
>
> The usually sober and thoughtful Wall Street Journal, on issues other than
> immigration, outdoes Newt Gingrich's claim that it would not be "humane" to
> deport illegal immigrants who have been living here a long time. A Wall
> Street Journal editorial says that it would be "psychotic" to do so.
>
> "No one honestly believes the government should or will mount a nationwide
> manhunt to deport millions of people," according to the Wall Street Journal.
>
> What we have today is virtually the opposite of that. Cities that openly
> proclaim themselves "sanctuaries" for illegal immigrants put their own
> policemen under strict orders not to report illegal immigrants to the
> federal authorities, with the result that illegal immigrants who have
> committed crime after crime are free to stay here and commit more crimes,
> including murder.
>
> You don't have to launch a "manhunt" when a known criminal is also a known
> illegal alien. What many local policies have done has been to virtually put
> illegal aliens in a witness protection program.
>
> The more doctrinaire libertarians see the benefits of free international
> trade in goods, and extend the same reasoning to free international
> movement of people. But goods do not bring a culture with them. Nor do they
> give birth to other goods to perpetuate that culture.
>
> Why do people want to come to America in the first place? Because America
> offers them something that their native countries do not. This country has
> a culture which has produced a higher standard of living and a freer life
> than in many other countries.
>

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