Thread: Newt Gingrich lays out immigration plan

Newt Gingrich lays out immigration plan
Urges tightening security before a worker program

By Diana Balazs
The Arizona Republic (Phoenix), October 20, 2006

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepubli ... h1020.html

Northeast Valley -- Newt Gingrich has his own plan for tackling illegal immigration, an issue that could help decide state and federal election campaigns in Arizona and across the nation.

The former U.S. House speaker from Georgia who engineered the 1994 Republican takeover of both the House and Senate, spoke Thursday at a $250-a-plate luncheon fund-raiser for U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth, R-Ariz., at the Westin Kierland Resort & Spa.

Hayworth faces Democrat Harry Mitchell and Libertarian Warren Severin for the Congressional District 5 House seat in the Nov. 7 general election.

'I couldn't come here without talking briefly about immigration, where J.D. has shown enormous leadership,' Gingrich said.

'How can you talk about national security and not control the border? How can you talk about terrorism and not control the border?' he asked.

Gingrich said the U.S. House of Representatives' passage of a border-control bill in September is a major step in the right direction.

'I think we should enforce immigration law and we should enforce the businesses that are knowingly hiring somebody illegally, (they) should be hammered, and businesses that are hiring people who have fraudulent documents should have an easy method of determining whether or not that person is legal,' he said.

Gingrich added that the U.S. government doesn't have a clue about how to go about that.

'That's because we haven't made the investment. We haven't been serious, and I have a very simple procedure. We should outsource everything involving the identity of the temporary worker to MasterCard, American Express or Visa because they actually know how to run a program,' he said.

Gingrich said an undocumented worker should be able to become an American citizen, but that person should be required to meet two standards: pass a test on American history in English and give up voting in any other nation.

If the border is controlled, immigration law enforced and standards established for citizenship, there should be a temporary worker program, he said.

Gingrich said it should involve a criminal background check, a biometric identifier, probably a thumbprint or a retinal scan, and a contract signed by the person that if they fail to pay taxes or break the law, they can be removed from the country within 48 hours without appeal to the court system.

He also would like to see 5 percent of a temporary worker's income set aside in a tax-free savings account. The worker could cash out that nest egg when returning home.

'That would guarantee a constant willingness of people to come here and work hard, but also plan to go home and be able to enrich their own country and create their own opportunities economically,' Gingrich said.

Blah, blah, blah, more of the same empty RNC rhetoric wrapped up in a different package. Trying to put more lipstick on the amnesty pig, well it's still a pig and you Newt have eaten too much bacon these days if you expect us to endorse this pile of manure.

You idiots don't get it do you.

Illegals go home

No Amnesty, No guestworker, No comprehensive/complicated reform, No temporary/permanent worker.

I'm going to steal a page out of LaRaza's playbook.

FOR THE AMERICAN CITIZENS EVERYTHING, FOR THE ILLEGAL ALIENS NOTHING.

YOU GET IT NEWT? DO YOU HEAR US NOW?

Go dman1200, Go!

My thoughts exactly, I would never trust Newt. He is a lier and would say anything, meanwhile doing the opposite behind your back. He is the NWO's very own.

From his own lips "He and He alone is responsible for getting NAFTA passed" The Creep!

Traitor to his country!!

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Good going UB........

At least they know we're doing our homework, whether or not they know how to do theirs

Gingrich said an undocumented worker should be able to become an American citizen, but that person should be required to meet two standards: pass a test on American history in English and give up voting in any other nation.

If the border is controlled, immigration law enforced and standards established for citizenship, there should be a temporary worker program, he said.

Hold on a minute, does Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ) support amnesty and a guest worker program? If not, why is Newt Gingrich showing support for these things while stumping for Rep. Hayworth? After all, Newt is speaking to potential Hayworth voters who may not want to hear about amnesty and a guest worker program. It is very possible that such talk could turn off Hayworth's base.

Hayworth's immigration report card:

http://grades.betterimmigration.com/tes ... 5&VIPID=44

Does anyone know Rep. Hayworth supports a path to legalization and guest worker program for illegal immigrants? I thought it didn't, but in view of what Newt said, perhaps he does support amnesty and a guest worker program under certain circumstances. Can anyone clear this up for me. Thanks.

MW, I've never heard Hayworth say anything to make me think he supports any kind of amnesty, especially since he has been among that tight group of House members who have taken a pretty hard line on illegal immigration and he's been very much against anchor babies. But, he did vote for CAFTA.

Regarding Newt, he's probably just tooting his own horn. He's now sitting on the sidelines and is itching to get back into DC and he can't help but throw out his own version of immigration reform!

Here are some articles about Hayworth, He also wrote a book called "Whatever It Takes"



Hayworth targets migrants with immigration bill
Measure would reduce visas for Mexicans

Billy House and Susan Carroll
The Arizona Republic
Sept. 29, 2005 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON - Rep. J.D. Hayworth, R-Ariz., plans to introduce today a sweeping immigration enforcement bill that would create a new national Social Security card, crack down on employers who hired undocumented workers and bring a moratorium on immigrant visas for Mexican citizens.

Although the provisions of the bill were well-received by some proponents of greater immigration control, they were widely assailed by immigration attorneys, advocates for undocumented immigrants and privacy watchdogs.

The Enforcement First Immigration Act of 2005 laces together in one package new and old proposals. advertisement




It represents what Hayworth and other U.S. House conservatives hope will be their signature core principles in any immigration reform bill agreed upon by Congress.

"The hope is that my model of enforcement will be a blueprint where the majority . . . can come together," Hayworth said of the 113-page bill he plans to detail today at a Capitol Hill news conference.


Increasing enforcement


Hayworth joins several other Arizonans in producing his own major legislation targeting immigration reform, a key issue for their state, which is the gateway for most of the illegal immigration into the United States.

Some provisions echoed a bill by Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., that calls for 10,000 more Border Patrol agents, adds Customs and Border Protection officers at ports of entry and expands detention space for undocumented immigrants.

But Hayworth's bill, unlike other immigration legislation introduced this session, would reduce the number of visas available, particularly for Mexican citizens.

It includes provisions that historically have proved controversial, such as putting the military on the border, ending automatic citizenship for babies born on U.S. soil and authorizing an estimated 700,000 state and local law enforcement officers to enforce immigration law.

The proposed legislation also would make voting in a foreign election without approval from the secretary of State a felony.

Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that favors stricter immigration controls, said the bill is "the right approach because it focuses on enforcement first."

"I don't mean to be a mouthpiece for the bill, but it really does summarize the approach we need to take, which is to regain control of the border and then talk about whether we need an amnesty or guest-worker program," he said.

"I'd have to say Congressman Hayworth's bill is common sense. In fact, it's hard to believe there would be any objection to it at all."

But critics found plenty to fault in the legislation.

"I don't expect this is going to be taken particularly seriously on Capitol Hill," said Angela Kelley, deputy director of the National Immigration Forum, a Washington, D.C.-based organization that pushes for more legal immigration. "The debate has moved far beyond where Representative Hayworth is."

Kelley charged that Hayworth's bill mistakenly tries to stop illegal immigration by restricting legal immigration.

"I think there's some enforcement provisions in here that might make sense, but they can't be absent an overall reform," she said.

"It guarantees our illegal immigration population will swell because it shuts off the narrow legal channels that now exist."

The bill will have strong backing from the anti-illegal immigration lobby and may have a chance given the "sentiment in the House," said Ira Mehlman, a Los Angeles-based spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which lobbies for reductions in immigration.

"These bills are always difficult, but I think the level of public discontent with mass immigration and the fact that it is now spread all across the country works in the favor of getting this support that it needs," he said.


Employer accountability


Mehlman said the bill addresses some of the major issues that fuel the growth of the undocumented population in the United States, now estimated at 10 million to 12 million people.

Hayworth's bill would dedicate thousands of agents and local law enforcement officers to identifying and deporting undocumented immigrants, while increasing the fines for employers who flouted the law.

Under Hayworth's bill, hiring one undocumented immigrant could result in a penalty of up to $50,000 and a jail term of up to one year.

"It actually puts some teeth into enforcement, which has been lacking for a long time," Mehlman said.

"It creates a verifiable means for employers to check if somebody is legal to hold a job, and if they fail to observe those procedures, there is a serious fine involved.

"On the other side of the equation, it sends the message to people that if you are caught . . . you will be sent home."

Lynn Marcus, director of the University of Arizona Immigration Law Clinic, said the proposed legislation is a "monster" with "many heads," alluding to the number of controversial provisions.


'Could be a disaster'


"Any piece of this could be a disaster," she said.

The legislation would create a "tamper resistant" Social Security card with a digitized photograph of the cardholder, a move designed to allow employers to instantly verify citizenship for new hires.

But Dawn Wyland, interim executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Arizona, said an ID based on a Social Security number raises troubling questions.

"From a privacy standpoint, we definitely would be opposed to a national security ID or a secure ID that uses a Social Security as an identifying factor, solely for the purposes of privacy and identity fraud," she said.

The bill takes a chapter from the CLEAR Act, which proponents have said could add as many as 700,000 law enforcement officials to the battle against illegal immigration.


Crime victims


The CLEAR Act has faced opposition from many law enforcement and union leaders across the country, including in Arizona, who fear undocumented immigrants will not come forward to report crimes.

The bill's thrust stands in starkest contrast to bipartisan legislation introduced in the Senate and House in May by Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., along with Reps. Jim Kolbe and Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.

That measure would set up a program for undocumented workers already in the country to get them temporary visas after paying a fine and could put them on track to become permanent residents or return home in six years.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepubli ... ion29.html




Call It What It Is.
The president’s plan is an illegal-immigrant amnesty.

By Rep. J. D. Hayworth

Am-nes-ty: the act of an authority (as a government) by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals.


Last week, I had the honor to travel to Arizona aboard Air Force One with President George W. Bush to see firsthand the situation along the Mexican border. President Bush is a good man, and when he is right I am among his strongest supporters in Congress. But on the issue of illegal immigration, he is profoundly wrong.


In Arizona, President Bush said: "First of all, in this debate . . . nobody should be given an automatic citizenship. That's called ‘amnesty.’”


But this is a strange definition of amnesty, considering that illegal aliens aren’t breaking the law by trying to become citizens—they are breaking the law by crossing the border illegally. If you let them stay here, if you pardon them for their crime of entering the country illegally, that's an amnesty.



The president is trying to redefine amnesty because he knows that admitting his plan is an amnesty would doom it. But in fact, Bush wants to add eventual citizenship for illegal immigrants in addition to letting them stay here. This makes his plan more than an amnesty—call it an amnesty plus.


The White House claims that the president’s plan is not an amnesty because illegals will face penalties and “benchmarks.” Here is what Tony Snow says awaits those who are allowed to stay under the president’s plan:


. . . you [the illegal alien] will pay fines, you will have a criminal penalty; you will also have to pay taxes; you will also have to keep your nose clean, you can't break the law; you will also have to stay continuously employed . . . you will have to pay your taxes, you will have to have a secure, tamper-proof identification.. And when all of that is done, you get to go to the back of the line, and you wait, what, 11 years or more for a chance to become a citizen, at the end of which you have to have a command of English, as well, to be able to become a citizen. Now, with all those benchmarks, it is hard to square that with the idea of amnesty.


What exactly on that list is onerous? Let’s go through it.


Illegal aliens will have to “pay taxes”: That’s no penalty; they’re supposed to pay taxes. In fact, according the Sen. Chuck Grassley, under Bush’s plan illegals would have the option to only have to pay three of their last five years in back taxes.


They have to “keep their nose clean”: Big deal. So does everybody else.


They have to get a tamper-proof ID card: Oh, the humanity!


They’ll have to stay employed: But isn’t that why they came here, to do jobs Americans won’t?


They’ll have to learn English: That’s a benefit to the illegal.


Most of these “benchmarks” would be required of any legal immigrant. They are in no way burdensome, yet Tony Snow makes them sound almost oppressive.


The only real punishment on the entire list is the fine. Know what it is? A measly $2,000 payable in two $1,000 installments. When you consider what illegals get for their two grand, it’s the deal of a lifetime.


The penalty for using a phony Social Security card is a fine of up to $250,000 and/or five years in jail. But Bush wants illegals to get pardoned for that serious crime and all their other immigration-related crimes. In the president’s plan, illegals get to have what they earned illegally counted toward Social Security benefits for themselves and their survivors. They get to send their children to American schools and bring their family into the country. They get access to public services, including the best health care in the world, and they get to enter and leave the country freely. In other words, they get to do everything a regular citizen can do except vote and serve on a jury.


To top it off, illegals are allowed not only join the citizenship queue, but also to legally live and work here while they wait. This privilege is worth thousands upon thousands of dollars for any individual illegal. And for the child of an illegal who is born in the United States and thus becomes an automatic citizen during this time, the privilege is almost priceless: John O’Sullivan writes that the going rate for a green card on the world market is $100,000.


If for some reason you still think Bush’s plan is tough on illegal immigrants, ask yourself what would happen if we set up a booth at the border charging $2,000 to come and live and work in the U.S. with the possibility of citizenship down the road. My guess is the line would stretch from Nogales to Buenos Aires and we’d erase our budget deficit overnight.


The idea that this plan would be onerous for illegals is insulting, especially to legal immigrants who have patiently gone through the laborious process of lawfully coming into this country.


The American people see through the White House spin. They know an amnesty when they see it. And the president’s plan is an amnesty.


—Rep. J. D. Hayworth is a Republican U.S. congressman from the 5th District of Arizona.

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America is being invaded!
How we can restore sanity to immigration policy -- before terrorists use our open borders to destroy us



Here is an article about the book.


Whatever It Takes

by J.D. Hayworth

Poll after poll shows that Americans are fed up with illegal immigration. But as things stand now, Congress and the president have no intention of doing what needs to be done to stop illegal immigrants and even terrorists from crossing freely into the United States from Canada and Mexico: securing our borders, strengthening our immigration laws, and enforcing those laws. These problems will not be solved so long as citizens leave it to Washington -- yet the situation grows more serious every day. After 9/11, do we really want to take the chance that no terrorists will try to take advantage of our porous borders? Congressman J.D. Hayworth says no. In Whatever It Takes: Illegal Immigration, Border Security and the War on Terror, he explains just how serious the problem has become, what the stakes are, and what we must do now to protect our republic from what is nothing less than an invasion.



Whatever It Takes explains how illegal immigration renders meaningless the very notions of borders and citizenship. Hayworth exposes how terrorists seek to exploit our open borders and attack our nation -- and the hypocrisy, greed, and political correctness that keep American officials from doing anything about it. He discusses the relationship between illegal immigration and crime, the problems that have arisen from discarding the idea that immigrants should assimilate, whether Mexico is really a friend of the United States, the controversies surrounding guest workers and amnesty for illegal immigrants, and much more.
Along the way, he tells you the facts that you won't hear from the media elite, and answers the most common arguments put forth in support of our current non-enforcement of immigration laws. He puts forth an original "enforcement first" plan to deal with illegal immigration in a way that respects our immigrant heritage, respects our borders, and respects our laws.


Myths and lies exploded, shocking truths revealed:

How the same liberals who profess outrage at companies "outsourcing" American jobs to places like India couldn't care less when American workers lose their jobs to "insourced" illegal aliens

Why the "staging areas" in towns on the Mexican side of the border from which thousands of illegal aliens of all nationalities make their way into the U.S. are left alone

Highly sophisticated drug smugglers and terror groups operating along the Mexican/U.S. border

The many illegal immigrants who die in the Arizona desert each year -- and other under-reported human costs of wholesale illegal immigration

Why so many American employers find the temptation to hire illegals irresistible

The mounting epidemic of preventable crime committed by illegal aliens

Why assimilation is the key to any successful immigration policy -- and how no country in the history of the world has succeeded in assimilating immigrants as well as the U.S., until recently

Do we really need cheap labor from foreign lands? Why it is absurd to think that our vast, 21st-century economy can't function without a constant flow of high school dropouts from overseas

Mexican President Vicente Fox: how he sugarcoats for the media his countrymen's illegal invasion of the United States -- and why his proposal to open the border officially is so dangerous

Mexico: our friend? Their threats to report our attempts to enforce immigration laws to the United Nations, and complaints that such enforcement was incompatible with "the harmonious development of relations between the United States and Mexico"

How left-wing groups like the pro-illegal immigrant National Immigration Law Center (NILC) interfere with enforcement of immigration laws

The many U.S. government agencies that turn a blind eye to illegal immigration or actually work to make it easier for illegal aliens to settle into American life

False: the widely reported analysis predicting that Mexico's sustained job creation and lower birth rate would cause a sharp reduction in the number of illegals heading north to find work

Why unrestricted immigration is not the answer to the Social Security crisis

Guest-worker programs: why they would do nothing to solve our illegal immigration problem -- and would in fact make it worse by rewarding illegal behavior and encouraging even more illegal immigration

How guest worker schemes would create a permanent and growing underclass of minimum wage workers, making the American Dream almost unattainable for lower income Americans who must compete with this cheap imported labor

How multiculturalists have it backwards: diversity is not the source of America's strength -- it is the product of it

Why so many Republicans refuse to address the problem of illegal immigration -- even after 9/11 highlighted its urgency

How our approach to immigration enforcement has been schizophrenic, as well as largely ineffective

Why any concerted effort to strengthen and enforce our immigration laws is met with howls of protest by the politically correct elites

How the problem of illegal immigration is made worse by the Left's deeply rooted disdain for America and American values

Unless something is done, argues Hayworth, it is only a matter of time before Americans pay another catastrophic price for our inexcusable dereliction in enforcing our immigration laws and controlling our borders. Our nation of laws and legal immigrants is under attack by an unholy alliance of big business, big labor, the government of Mexico, Republican and Democrat political operatives cynically looking to woo Hispanic voters, and left-wing extremists out to alter the character of America. If you disagree with them, they call you a racist and a xenophobe.
But Congressman Hayworth won't back down -- and in Whatever It Takes, he gives us a solid plan to stop this madness before it brings disaster to our nation. This book is a wake-up call to all concerned citizens to demand that our government take the steps that we know will work to stop illegal immigration and protect our country.


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