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Gingrich: 9 million immigrants will ‘go home’ voluntarily! All of a sudden Bachmann looks like JFK.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/18/gingrich-9-million-immigrants-will-go-home-voluntarily/
By David Edwards
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich explained on Sunday that his policies would require up to 9 million undocumented immigrants to return to their home nations — and he predicted that they would do it voluntarily.
“What I’ve proposed is very standard things,” the former House speaker told CBS host Bob Schieffer. “In that context, what I’ve said is there is a group of people that have been here for a long time, and we’ve talked about a citizen review board in the World War II Selective Service model, and we’ve said that if somebody’s been here a long time and has an American family willing to sponsor them, they should be subject to review to get a residency permit — not citizenship, but a residency permit.”
He continued: “I just disagree with some of my (Republican) friends. I do not believe the American people are going to send police out to round up folks who have been here 25 years.”
“My guess is that 7 or 8 or 9 million of them would ultimately go home, get a guest-worker permit, come back under the law,” Gingrich replied. “But the last million or 2 are people that have been here for a very long time. They’re very part of — they’re not citizens, but they’re part of the community.”
By David Edwards
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich explained on Sunday that his policies would require up to 9 million undocumented immigrants to return to their home nations — and he predicted that they would do it voluntarily.
“What I’ve proposed is very standard things,” the former House speaker told CBS host Bob Schieffer. “In that context, what I’ve said is there is a group of people that have been here for a long time, and we’ve talked about a citizen review board in the World War II Selective Service model, and we’ve said that if somebody’s been here a long time and has an American family willing to sponsor them, they should be subject to review to get a residency permit — not citizenship, but a residency permit.”
He continued: “I just disagree with some of my (Republican) friends. I do not believe the American people are going to send police out to round up folks who have been here 25 years.”
“My guess is that 7 or 8 or 9 million of them would ultimately go home, get a guest-worker permit, come back under the law,” Gingrich replied. “But the last million or 2 are people that have been here for a very long time. They’re very part of — they’re not citizens, but they’re part of the community.”
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