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So, you solution appears to be one of the following two options: To do nothing, and assume that the problem will solve itself. Or to round up the illegals, put them in cattle cars, and ship them south. The second is untenable, for a variety of reasons, and will doom the GOP for a minimum of two generations. If you prefer the first, you're probably suggesting that a person could be shipped south as soon as they were legally identified. This will amount to a trickle. What is required is an intelligent plan to address the problem and the balls to suggest it in the middle of a political campaign.

There's a reason I keep asking people attacking Newt for alternatives. They are few and far between.

In which alternate universe are you posting?

Show me where I have advocated for either of those two solutions on this thread or anywhere else?

And since your characterization of my proposed solutions is so fallacious, I guess I will repost it for the umpteenth time:

1. Actually enforce existing Immigration laws (which we are not doing today)
2. Build the COMPLETE border fence, not just in "Urban areas" as Newt proposed which actually comprise 1/10 of 1 percent of the border.
3. Implement E-Verify for all employment and all acquisition of Social Services.

1. Actually enforce existing Immigration laws (which we are not doing today)

In Gingrich's plan.

2. Build the COMPLETE border fence, not just in "Urban areas" as Newt proposed which actually comprise 1/10 of 1 percent of the border.

You are obsessed with the border fence. I get it. I have to break it to you: Gingrich's plan does not actually rule one out. His plan focuses, however, on more realistic and immediate solutions. Among my favorites:

This bill will waive every obstacle to controlling the border and would shift resources to achieve virtually 100% control by January 1, 2014. If necessary, we would move one-half of the 23,000 Washington-area Department of Homeland Security bureaucrats to the Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona borders.

3. Implement E-Verify for all employment and all acquisition of Social Services.

In Gingrich's plan. Next?