Gingrich screws the pooch: Immigration.

Well, I've crossed Newt off, just like I have crossed off Perry and Paul.

Rewarding illegal activity of any kind is wrong.

No amount of spin will make it right.

You here illegally?  Then you've got to go.  Don't want your illegally born kids to go with you?  Then leave them here.  And next time, think about that BEFORE you have them... because the decision to have children illegally is yours.  But don't expect them to be some sort of anchor that gets you a pass.

You support illegals being here by providing them with employment?  Then your business needs to be seized like they are as a result of illegal drug money.

To give in to the illegal aliens just because they happen to be here is to slap in the face the millions waiting patiently to come here by following the law.  It's that simple, really.

newt's moronic play to get hispanic support was wrong as well.

I've made my position clear on illegals and those who enable them here.

And that's it for Newt.  Next?

Could Gingrich Immigration Stance Be Shrewd Move?

by Ted Robbins

November 23, 2011

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Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Former House speaker Newt Gingrich answers a question at Tuesday's Republican presidential debate in Washington, D.C.

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November 23, 2011

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is getting lots of attention for his remarks about immigration in Tuesday's debate. Gingrich, who has been moving up in the polls, broke with his fellow candidates by saying that some illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay in the United States.
Though his statements were in line with other GOP candidates from years past, the aftershocks show just how narrow the immigration debate has been in recent years.
At first, Gingrich spouted the typical Tea Party-era Republican line: "If you've come here recently you have no ties to this country, you oughta go home, period," he said before an audience in Washington, D.C.
But his next statement was what raised eyebrows.
"If you've been here 25 years, and you got three kids and two grandkids, you've been paying taxes and obeying the law, you belong to a local church, I don't think were gonna separate you from your family, uproot you forcefully, and kick you out," Gingrich said.
That got a lot of pushback from Gingrich's fellow candidates, and a lot of post-debate attention. But his statement is not radical by traditional Republican standards.

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