Newt isn’t advocating giving college tuition aid to illegals like Perry did. Big difference, I’m afraid.
No, he is advocating allowing illegal immigrants to stay in this country and become legal. Not necessarily a bad position, but certainly no more acceptable to the pro-law crowd here than allowing illegal immigrant children to get a break on their tuition costs.
And he is defending it as “humane”, and saying people who disagree with him are inhumane. In that regard, it is exactly like Perry saying people who disagreed with him didn’t have a heart. Perry said people who thought illegal immigrants should be barred from paying in-state tuition for college didn’t have a heart, Gingrich says that people who think all illegals SHOULD be removed from this country are inhumane.
That’s not about whether it is PRACTICAL — it’s an indictment of the motivations of those who want illegals to be removed.
It’s not hard for me to overlook — I agree with Gingrich on the merits, but don’t think others are inhuman, just wrong.