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What's wrong with it?

I'll quote the relevant problematic parts:

Mr. Gingrich proposes to push an essential part of the Dream Act which offers citizenship to those young men and women who serve in military.

The Dream Act allows not only those who serve, but also their extended families, to become legal and work for citizenship, even if they were all here illegally. This at a time when Obama is cutting the military, so we don't really need to hire illegals to fight for our country, much less give their families amnesty for it.

Under that same pretense, would those of us born in the United States, but have parental ancestry from Mexico, Venezuela, Columbia, Cuba, and other Latin American countries, be dishonest in claiming ourselves as Americans

What they are talking about is birthrite citizenship, the perverted system by which mexicans or others can illegally sneak into our country, and if they manage to drop a baby while they are here, that baby is given immediate citizenship, which opens the doors for the extended family.

It is clear to us that you have not provided a real solution on behalf of the 12+ million immigrants who live in the shadows of the American communities.

That's illegals -- but this organization doesn't believe in illegals, as you can see from their description.

You fail to dignify the economic refugees who reside, work, pay taxes, and are otherwise productive citizens in this country.

Remember, they are talking about illegals -- not "citizens" as they call them.

In stark contrast, Mr. Gingrich has a true history of supporting our community.

The 12 million illegals who this groups calls "productive citizens".

Newt Gingrich is the only candidate that has offered a humane approach to our immigration problem. He understands how inhumane and unrealistic it is to deport 12 million undocumented immigrants.

Again, we are "inhumane" if we want to deport people who came here illegally -- not just an argument that it would be hard to do so, but that it would be morally wrong.

... recognize the remainder through temporary work permits, and through establishing legal status for those with American sponsorship and deep ties to their communities.

Work Permits for all may make sense, to force them out into the open, and then when those permits expire, we can have them leave. The rest is praise for Gingrich's idea to judge illegals not based on their crimes, but by who they can bribe to speak on their behalf, and on the vagaries of "community boards" meaning different treatment for the same issue. I don't expect to deport all the illegals, but I want the choice to be made by the COUNTRY, since it is the country giving these people a pass, not a county, or a city.

Under Newt's plan, the illegals just have to make it to the liberal enclaves where the community boards will approve them, then they can come back and swamp our communities as "legal" residents. That's no way to run a federal immigration policy -- it's one of those cases where Newt was so smart he came up with a rediculous plan that makes no real sense but "sounds good".

Romney may in the end be no good at all on immigration, but this group endorsed Gingrich because they trust Gingrich to be better for illegals than Romney. Newt Gingrich proposes to push an essential part of the Dream Act which offers citizenship to those young men and women who serve in the military. Newt Gingrich supports a referendum for the people of Puerto Rico to decide between independence, statehood and continued commonwealth status. Newt Gingrich has for years shown active support by reaching out to us, our organizations and our community to better understand the real concerns of American Hispanics. His interest in us did not begin last Tuesday in a Florida debate.