Gingrich: Trump’s Deportation Threat Is Unworkable

“It’s nonsense to say somebody who came here when they were two, only speaks English, graduated as a high school valedictorian and is currently a nurse or a doctor should be deported. We’re going to deport them and they don’t speak the language of whatever country their parents came from, and they’ve earned the right to be Americans?

“We are a nation of law despite some of the things that have been said and I think that if you have legal standing in the American system, it’s very difficult to deport you. On the other hand, if you have no legal standing, it’s pretty easy to deport you, right? And I’m for doing the easy first. That’s why we should give [Dreamers] legal status, as a practical matter.

“Lincoln once said that with popular sentiment, anything is possible; without popular sentiment, nothing is possible. Well, you get very many human stories about mothers or babies or children being deported, then support for the deportation program will collapse.” – Newt Gingrich, speaking to the Guardian.



Never thought I would be posting this guy:

Trump’s sweeping deportation threat is unworkable and aimed at ‘rabid’ Republicans, says Newt Gingrich | Newt Gingrich | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025…

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— Frank Deale (@fdeale.bsky.social) January 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM