Thread: Gingrich Slams Obama for South Carolina Immigration Lawsuit

Gingrich Slams Obama for South Carolina Immigration Lawsuit

Nov 29, 2011 1:05am

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich touched on a local issue when speaking at a packed town hall meeting in Charleston, South Carolina Monday night. The GOP hopeful had harsh words for President Obama for allowing the U.S. Department of Justice to sue the state of South Carolina over its immigration law.

[b]“Clearly the Obama administration has been comfortable allowing foreign governments to enter a lawsuit against an American state. So here’s a simple way to think of it: President Obama sided with Mexico, I would side with South Carolina,â€

[quote]Gingrich said he was not for amnesty but does not “believe you’ll ever pass a bill to hunt down every single person who’s been here for a quarter century.â€

Gingrich targets "sanctuaries" for illegal immigrants



Harriet McLeod Reuters

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich told a South Carolina town hall on Monday that as president he would block federal funds to any city that "declared itself a sanctuary" for illegal immigrants.

Gingrich, fresh from a key endorsement from an influential New Hampshire newspaper, is on a three-day swing through South Carolina, an early primary state that his campaign has dubbed his "southern firewall."

"No American president has the right to side with foreigners," Gingrich told a crowd of hundreds at the College of Charleston, after reciting a list of 16 countries that he said had filed friend of the court briefs in a Justice Department lawsuit against South Carolina's new immigration law.

The law, which goes into effect on January 1 barring an injunction from a federal court, requires police officers to check the immigration status of anyone they stop or detain for another reason and makes it a felony to knowingly transport or harbor undocumented immigrants.

"In three years and eight months, we defeated fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and imperial Japan. Today, we can't build a (border) fence," Gingrich said. "I would propose cutting off all federal funds to any city that declares itself a sanctuary city."

He said that if UPS and FedEx could keep track of millions of packages a day, the federal government should be able to track illegal immigrants in the country.

But Gingrich added: "I don't believe we'll ever pass a bill which requires us to hunt down every single person" who has been in this country for some time illegally.

Gingrich also said he would favor a "very sophisticated, very clean" guest worker program.

"I think we should go back to the World War Two selective service model where local citizens are certified at a local level, where they actually know the person," he said.

"If the person is a good citizen, has genuine ties to the United States, has genuine roots, they still don't get amnesty, they still don't get citizenship, they still don't get the right to vote. They do get the legal right to be a resident."

Immigrant workers are important in agricultural production in the South as in other U.S. regions, from field labor such as picking and tending fruits and vegetables to working in poultry plants and plant nurseries. They also are a heavy contributor to the manpower for construction crews.

(Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Peter Bohan)

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/poli ... 7018.story

As for Newt's last remarks we already have unlimited visas for agricultural workers and construction is one of the industries that have impacted Americans the most in job losses to illegal aliens. Now he is suggesting that we need these illegals for construction? WTH?

What a hypocrite. Newt claims he opposes Sanctuary Cities but he would offer illegal aliens a sanctuary guest worker program.

Just what America did not need right now, another Globalist two faced Republican trying to square off with the Globalist traitor Obama.

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WTG judy
your Ok in MY book you hit the nail right On the head
they are all Moron to me they don't know . the left hand from the right hand . & they want to be President that a joke
why Judy you could a very good job as President

No amnesty or Dream act