Dear Former House Speaker Gingrich:
Your proposal sounds like it would give U.S. jobs and residency to around 3.5 million illegal aliens (according to a new Pew Hispanic Center study). Assuming that estimate is reasonably accurate, you are promising an amnesty in fact that exceeds the giant blanket amnesty of 1986 that was supposed to be the first and last one ever.
You appear to agree with Presidents Bush and Obama that the only major options for illegal aliens are deporting them or legalizing them (choices that nearly all mainstream media also insist on). Your official immigration platform gives no hint of recognizing that there is a third option -- Attrition through Enforcement – that eliminates the jobs and benefits magnets for illegal aliens so that they will self-deport back to their home countries. Thus, you are at odds with most of the other GOP candidates and most GOP Members of Congress who favor the Attrition option.
Having read and studied both your “10 Steps to a Legal Nation” and your “7-Point Plan”, I am more frightened than ever for the future of this nation. I agree with you and with the Pew Center that you are not suggesting a blanket amnesty like Bush and Obama but rather advocating legalization of those who have “deep ties” of “family, church and community.”
Unlike Bush and Obama, you would not allow them to become voters. But, like Bush and Obama, you would allow them to keep their jobs instead of opening them up for the millions of unemployed Americans who are waiting in line for those jobs. Thus, your plan has nothing to do with protecting American workers or communities from too much immigration and the costs associated with the illegal alien burden.
It is my considered opinion that such a plan can lead only to protracted court battles and ultimately to a decision in favor of full amnesty in the Supreme Court. The concept of “deep ties” is nebulous, subjective, and ill-defined at best.
I have closely watched and listened to all of the GOP presidential candidate debates and had reached the tentative conclusion that you were the best hope for unseating President Obama in the coming election year. Having now heard and read your position on the illegal alien situation, I am no longer able to hold that conclusion and believe firmly that you will find the majority of Americans share my views in the days ahead.
I urge you to reconsider and restate your position on illegal aliens and to publicly embrace the option of attrition through enforcement. Failing that, I will have no alternative but to support another GOP candidate.
Deeply disappointed,
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