Influential congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) said Wednesday that presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's immigration plan was a "form of amnesty" and that he disagreed with it, adding to the chorus of critics from the right.
In Tuesday's GOP foreign policy debate, Gingrich said he would support an immigration policy that would allow illegal immigrants who had lived in the United States for a long time, obeyed the law, and paid their taxes to become permanent residents.
“I do not believe that the people of the United States are going to take people who’ve been here for a quarter of a century … [and] separate them from their families and expel them,” Gingrich said. “I do believe we should control the border. I do believe we should have very severe penalties.”
He went on to say that he believed his policy to be the "humane" one.
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4 comments:
for the longest time i believed that ALL illegals should be returned to their own countries. i was and am sick of our country being so very lax on this issue of open borders. no other country in the world allows this to happen.
BUT, since we as a nation through our LAZY, UNCARING government on this issue allowed this to go on for many, many years; what else can we do?
i have come to the conclusion that we must chose another route or plan. when i listened to Gingrich this past week; i did agree with what he proposed. i am VERY conservative and believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and all our founding documents but it's now time to deal with the issue of "illegals" in our country. his plan sounds reasonable.
The first thing we have to do is stop the flow.
It's not just the lax govt. It's those who hire illegals because the cost is so much lower and unions & others keep the citizens from working for that low wage. There are those for whom "the work is too hard with not enough pay"...mostly.
I agree. It is unrealistic to think we can send all of them back. We need to have a plan that gives the stable ones that have been here for some period of time a path to legitimacy while limiting the flood of new ones.
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