Newt on immigration: What if we had local boards who could legalize certain illegals?

Hotair ^ | 05/19/2011 | Allahpundit

[HollyB]

Geez, it would probably end up being led by a WH appointee. What a disaster a program like that would be.

Why are he even discussing a ompromise on this subject. It would all be very simple if the laws were just enforced.

[headstamp 2]

Don’t worry Newt, I heard today that Chuckie Schumer feels sorry for you.

[Free_SJersey]

Yes, that draft board type set-up should work real well. The Draft Board before the lottery was set up was fair and equitable because the people on the board knew the people in the area------- IN A PIGS EYE.

I came from a town of 13K people, mostly poor working class. About five miles away is a town with the same population of mostly upper middle class and wealthy people. Our town had 18 killed in VietNam, the other town, 1. It was a guarantee in our town that within six months of graduation, if you weren't able to pay for college, you were drafted.

The way Newt's idea will work, criminal aliens (the left says that no person can be illegal so since they broke the law coming into the country, they are criminals) who work for wealthy people will get amnesty.

Incidently, I found a foolproof way to beat the draft- I enlisted towards the end of my senior year and was in Parris Island a week after graduation and by November I had my acceptance papers for DaNang university.

[TwoSwords]

Ron Paul has some competetion, it would seem. Meth is reaching the highest levels.

[MV=PY]

I think it’s a great idea!

We could have local boards that deport people too.

And why stop there? We could have local boards that decide who should receive health care and who shouldn’t!

And maybe even local boards that exempt entire companies from healthcare laws!

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[HANG THE EXPENSE]

This guy is really turning into badnews.He is infected by the swamp gases of dc.

[DustyMoment]

From the absurd to the sublime.

As I posted previously about Newt, he’s toast before he was ever bread!!

[Cringing Negativism Network]

“What if we had a fence?”

[HiJinx]

Ping!

[Sea Parrot]

Newt is nuts. The clown opens his mouth and sends missives ricocheting all over worse than a .22 rf fired across a pond of still water.

[Publius6961]

Newt on immigration: What if we had local boards who could legalize certain illegals?

What if we had local boards who could pay for and transport illegal aliens back across the southern border?

This RINO has-been has gone over the edge. Every idea he now has seems to turn intelligent dialog to crap.

[Dominic01]

newt is being a poster child to the media which is making the GOP look bad, his has-been attitude needs to go away for good. someone shut him up please.

[Cobra64]

Hey Newt, have you ever heard of the United States Constitution and the Rule of Law?

How do you legalize illegals? Pretty soon, you'll legalize murder and rape; and grant them amnesty.

I can just hear him now:

"She deserved to be raped so we need to grant the rapist amnesty... I'm Newt Gingrich and I approve of this message."

I don't know who's nuttier; Gingrich or McCain.

[sockmonkey]

Some places, like San Francisco Antonio, would establish boards that would legalize every illegal that came before them.

[FunkyZero]

I hope to God no one remembers a few years back when I used to actively support and defend this guy.

How could I have been SO wrong...

[BJungNan]

The ones that keep getting rewarded are the politicians that have done nothing over 20 years about the border. Did you vote for any of them? Did you see any of the ones you voted for go all out to make border control the top issue? Were you one of the people on here bashing Buchanan? Im not saying you specifically but just raising the point. We , the votets, let them in.

[BJungNan]

You started your post ok, identfying the mess of deporting someone to a country who for all intents and purposes they never lived in. That is an estute point. But then to turn and say give that person a crash course in the language of the country where they are to be sent? That takes what you identified as a complex issue and trivializes it.

Something certainly must be done. But If anyone thinks it will be possible to deport them all just do the math. How many buses would it take just for starters? 12 million people at 50 people per bus.

[BJungNan]

Hey, how you doing? Remember the last time we talked. It was that thread where you were elequently supporting Newt. LOL. Weve all been there. No worries. Assessments change.

[Uncle Miltie]

I just got back from a three week vacation (25th Wedding Anniversary!)

Isn’t Newt gone yet?

[globelamp]

Newt has truly come undone. He has never considered that US residency allows one to live in (and use the benefits of) the *entire* US?

Allowing local authorities the power to decide who gets to live in the entire US is a textbook case of a decision level mismatch.

This is especially true given that we already have municipalities that openly flout US immigration law, widespread abuse of such institutions is a certainty, I.e. US residency will be handed out like candy.

Again: giving someone US residency (and eventually citizenship) allows a wide array of benefits and privilege that is provided by the rest of the US population in its entirety. Hence, deciding who gets to join the club is a federal responsibility.