I was for SB1070 too. That doesn't mean that I or Sarah Palin are in favor of deporting 12 million people. All SB1070 does is to allow the State to identify illegal aliens and turn them over to the Feds. The Feds are just going to release them anyway. The problem is that we have not enforced our immigration laws for the last 50 years. We have created an untenable problem by refusing to enforce the laws. A law that is not enforced is not a law at all.
Now show me where Sarah Palin has backtracked on her statement that undocumented immigrants (that's what she called them) should be given a path to citizenship (something Newt has specifically suggested should not be done).
On this issue Newt is to the right of Palin.
With the exception of a brief chapter in To Renew America, which was written over a decade and a half ago, there's nothing to indicate that Newt Gingrich would do anything but continue the open borders policy we've had since the Carter administration.
Even in the supposedly damning interview with Bill O'Reilly, which people use to imply she's as bad as Gingrich, Perry, Huntsmann, et al., her stance supercedes anything being offered now, with the possible exceptions of Cain and Bachmann.
-She completely rules out amnesty.
-She unreservedly comdemns the 1986 ICRA, i.e. Simpson-Mazzoli.
-She calls for the registration of all aliens, not to fast track them to citizenship but to identify security risks.
She calls for the militarization of the border.
And she does not even entertain the specious open borders assumption that we should focus on regularizing the "11-12 million" IAs.