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[calex59]

but they would not have the right to vote."

Horse sh**! It would only be a matter of time before the dimwits passed a law giving them the right to vote by giving them full citizenship. This way leads only to more illegals swarming over the border in the hopes they will become "long term illegals with families".

This is amnesty pure and simple and this guy should not be elected President. We already have enough government officials unwilling to enforce immigration laws, we don't need another one.

[Steely Tom]

"There is a path to non-deportation for certified, very long-term community members but they would not have the right to vote."

Not sustainable. Will only last as long as it takes for the first lawsuit to hit the courts.

Gingrich, like some very smart people I've met in my life, can make gargantuan mistakes from time to time.

Just think of Steve Jobs. Dead today because he wanted to pursue a Buddist approach to dealing with his pancreatic cancer. Wrong.

[Zhang Fei]

It sounds like Gingrich is proposing a work permit program that enables illegals to stick around forever without ever being eligible for naturalization. The problem with such a program is that we don’t need it, and these workers are having children who automatically become American citizens. All we need to do is step up enforcement, and pass new legislation imposing prison terms and felony convictions for employers who knowingly hire illegals, and they will leave the country of their own accord, at no cost to the taxpayer except for the cost of hiring additional immigration agents.

[dirtboy]

McCain did the exact same torturing of the word amnesty.

We need a straight-talking candidate, not one spewing the same old DC weasel words.

[AU72]

He’s trying to get the hispanic vote in states with open primaries.

[Invincibly Ignorant]

Gingrich is parsing as usual.

[BunnySlippers]

NO Newt!

[dirtboy]

There is a path to non-deportation

Downright Orwellian.

[Texas Eagle]

Looks like Newt has learned SOMEthing. It’s probably not a good idea to call the very people whose votes you seek, “inhumane”, just because they want immigration laws enforced.

[tumblindice]

“path to non-deportation”

That’s almost as good as him and his boosters here saying,
`He’s going to legalize illegals ... but it’s not amnesty.’
Just more razzle dazzle from the perfesser.

[dirtboy]

He wants ... a guest worker program

Yeah, Newt, we have such rampant labor shortages in this economy.

He is completely out of touch with those outside the Beltway.

[tennmountainman]

I would not trust a word out of this DC Hacks mouth.
Once a DC Hack, always a DC Hack.

[Texas Eagle]

"there is no path to citizenship in my Tuesday night comment on immigration," Gingrich told Newsmax. "There is a path to non-deportation

Newt, Newt, Newt. This is not a path to The White House.

[DaxtonBrown]

All the present candidates suck. Gingrich may be all we can get.

[Logical me]

It is amazing how many ignorant Americans cannot understand that that is happening right now without any control. How many families have we heard that have been hear for many years have been broken up and deported and have left their American born children here. Wake up!

[ottbmare]

We used to have a formal guest worker program in this country and it was quite successful. There really are jobs Americans won’t do, or jobs that are located so far from population centers that US citizens aren’t going to get them. (An unemployed inner-city person is not going to move to the vegetable fields of California to get a $7-an-hour job.)

Nothing wrong with bringing in some foreign people to harvest crops on a temporary, non-exploitative basis, then sending them home when the season is over. No “coyotes”, gangs, etc., no holding them prisoner in miserable camps, no pregnant women, no kids. Preference in jobs given to US citizens if any apply for them. The brasero program used to bring in men to work seasonally, then sent them back. We did this when I was a kid and it worked out well for everybody.

I have no tolerance at all for illegals, but I sympathize with kids who were brought here by their parents and grew up here. There ought to be a path to citizenship for them. If they do some service—military service, or some civilian service opportunity for girls, for those guys who don’t qualify for military service on medical grounds, or for the specially talented. If they prove they’re devoted enough to this country to give of themselves in order to become citizens, then they should have the chance to apply for citizenship.

[ElkGroveDan]

The left love throwing out the unrelated question of what to do about people who have been living here forty or fifty years and have raised families. It's like the abortion question of what to do about the mother who gets an abortion after we make it illegal.

The realistic answer for elected officials asked about illegal aliens should be; "We need to get control of our borders first. It does no good to talk about people living here now when anyone in Mexico can acquire that status tomorrow. Once we gain control of our borders then we can talk about all the other implications and permutations of illegal immigration."

[RockinRight]

Basically, it sounds like Newt is carving out a niche here, where he can state that he isn’t going to “split up families” but that his plan will ultimately only allow a small number of illegals to truly “qualify” for this non-citizen non-amnesty plan.

I like it, if it can work. If those in question wish to become citizens, they can prove it by returning to their country of origin and restarting the process.

I think it’s high time we distinguish between the two types of immigrants (not illegal vs legal):

Those who wish to be Americans

Those who do not

[Carry_Okie]

Nice to hear, but the problem with it is that he has given me ample reason not to trust his word.