I don’t know whether to shake my head in disbelief, or just be happy that, because of Newt Gingrich, positions I once flirted with that got me roundly criticized here at FR are now apparently the official site policy, and something that nobody would ever think should be different.
Oddly, as another pointed out, Romney talks about self-deporting, which is what conservatives used to talk about; that after we make it impossible for illegals to get jobs, or drive cars, or collect welfare, they will decide it’s better to go back home. Is that inhumane?
But really, the problem here was Gingrich saying that being against illegal immigrants was an “anti-immigrant” position. That’s what the left says, that if you are against illegals you are against immigrants in general. Of course Gingrich didn’t say this at an english-speaking debate, he said it on a spanish-language station advertisement. So maybe we weren’t supposed to know about it.
Except that isn’t even what Gingrich said.