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Newt Gingrich Falls Into The Immigrant Compassion Trap

Evan McMorris-Santoro November 22, 2011, 10:16 PM 551 6

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the many Republican presidential debates this year, it’s that frontrunners should do their best not to tell the GOP base how it should feel about illegal immigrants.

Yet that’s exactly what Newt Gingrich did during Tuesday’s foreign policy-themed debate on CNN.

During a discussion of illegal immigration led by moderator Wolf Blitzer, Gingrich — who Blitzer pointed out voted in favor of so-called “amnestyâ€