This reminds me of the "reasonable" plan to achieve "peace" in the middle east. If I remember, the "road map to peace" plan that the Bush adminstration endorsed and continually touted had three steps:
1) End to Palestinian violence. Palestinians recongize Israel's right to exist and undergo political reform.
2) Establishment of an independent Palestinian state with provisional borders. Withdrawl of Israel from Palestinian "territories"
3) Permanent status agreement and end of conflict; agreement on final borders, clarification of the highly controversial question of the fate of Jerusalem, refugees and settlements
The "roadmap" never went anywhere because they've never accomplished step #1 over the last 60 years. But after failing to get past step #1, U.S. politicians say that's OK, let's start working on step #2 and #3 now.
Ditto with the "reasonable" plan to "reform" immigration. The three steps:
1) Control the border - shut the door.
2) Guest Worker program.
3) Review Board to review the illegals that are here and provide a "path to citizenship" for the "law abiding" ones. (whatever that means)
Once elected, step #1 is never implimented and hasn't been since the last immigration "reform" in 1965. So the polticians decide to move on to step #2 and #3 when illegal aliens are still flooding into our nation.
I didn't hear Newt say that. What I heard was "legal" but "NOT a path to citizenship". I replayed it, just to be sure.
You have every right to be cynical about Newt shutting the door first. I just hope you're wrong.
As I said before, the question is what’s the criteria for deportation and how do you handle those that can stay? Forcefully sending all 20 million men, women, and children back over the border won’t happen. If you think that, then tell me who is going to do it and exactly how.....really....