Speaker Gingrich may be able to walk this back and minimize the damage by forcefully demanding a substantial fine be assessed against the illegal aliens that broke our laws long ago but have maintained decades-long family and community roots without a criminal record. There must be some tangible penalty for breaking the law and to avoid deportation, otherwise, how is this not amnesty?
The Gingrich campaign has stepped up to a cliff and may have gone over the edge in the eyes of a huge block of conservative base GOP voters with his position on illegal immigration revealed in tonight's debate.
Illegal immigration is such a hot button issue that directly bears on the survival of our nation's culture, prosperity, and security. I know it certainly caused me to switch the standing of Gingrich versus Cain in my preference.
Cain has the same position - a non-deportation means of dealing with the millions of illegals already here:
http://www.economicfreedomcoalition.com/news/press-opinion-061107.asp
See my tagline.
“Speaker Gingrich may be able to walk this back and minimize the damage by forcefully demanding a substantial fine be assessed against the illegal aliens that broke our laws long ago but have maintained decades-long family and community roots without a criminal record. “
Cut the “fine” crap. It sounds just like McCain. We’re not STUPID enough to think that a “fine” would be paid by the ILLEGAL. No, we know that one or more of the following will happen, if there is a “fine”:
1) There will be a “hardship” exemption, where people that have not had much to show on tax returns (either because they didn’t make much, or, more likely, what they made never showed up on tax returns) get their “fine” waived.
2) ACORN, Soros, the DNC, or whoever pay the “fine”, so the “fine” is meaningless.
3) A judge declares the “fine” to be inhumane, so it is simply tossed out.
Liberals think that laws are made to be broken. Conservatives do not believe rule of man. Newt Gingrich is a self serving egomaniac who loves to hear himself talk. He is too knee jerk and changeable to be a responsible president.