Thread: Newt calls for legal status check on arrested.

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Citing the arrest of an undocumented immigrant in the execution-style Newark murders, Newt Gingrich yesterday called for emergency legislation requiring anyone arrested for a felony to immediately have their legal status checked.

"Four young people, working hard, studying, doing the right things, three of them were killed, all four were shot in an execution style by somebody who should not have been in America in the first place," the former speaker of the House said in a speech in Ames, Iowa.

Gingrich noted that Peruvian immigrant Jose Carranza had been arrested twice before the slayings, adding, "Twice, he was released back on the streets."

The Georgia Republican, who's considered a potential presidential contender, called on President Bush to summon a special session of Congress to pass the emergency legislation.

"Imagine that those four college students had been your children," Gingrich said. "Imagine they'd been your nieces or nephews. We cannot expect Mayor [Cory] Booker to defend Newark if the government of the United States does not defend America, and we need to win the war at home fully as much as we need to win the war overseas."


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_repo ... elony.html

It ticks me off that some one has to die before any one gets off their butts to enforce the laws... This should already be done!!!

Yep! It is the states that stopped this. One of those states is mine.