Gingrich Out Front
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November 23, 2011, by Jamie Dupree, AJC
Surging in the latest polls, former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich found himself under attack at a Republican Presidential debate in Washington, D.C., as he staked out a more moderate position on illegal immigration when it comes to pushing out those already here illegally.
"If you've come here recently, you have no ties to this country, you ought to go home. period," said Gingrich, who then publicly moved away from Republican orthodoxy on the immigration issue.
"If you've been here 25 years and you got three kids and two grandkids, you've been paying taxes and obeying the law, you belong to a local church, I don't think we're going to separate you from your family, uproot you forcefully and kick you out," said the former U.S. House Speaker. READ...
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