Excerpted from Fox news Sunday with Chris Wallace
Why can’t we enforce existing laws?
WALLACE (Interviewing Newt Gingrich): . . . if you do nothing, if you stay with the system you have now, the 12 million people are going to stay here, and what you have is amnesty. It’s just silent amnesty.
GINGRICH: Yes, but what they’re saying, in effect, is we either have to do nothing or we have to do something fairly dumb.
Now, why can’t we do a series of small, smart steps? Why couldn’t they — I’ll give you another example. Democratic Governor Napolitano of Arizona wrote a column this week pointing out that they are cutting the number of National Guard supporting the border before they have actually met their goals at the border.
So the average American looks up and says, “Why can’t you control the border tomorrow morning? Why can’t you enforce the law?” I mean, you don’t have to deport anybody. All you have to say is to American businesses, who are American citizens, “Obey American law or face economic penalties.”
Now, the morning you do that, you begin to dry up the market for hiring people illegally.
Why couldn’t you make sure that there was a fairly easy way to verify somebody was legally here so that, as rapidly as you do with an automatic teller machine with your credit card, you’re able to know that you’re hiring somebody legally?
Those things drive people — you don’t have to deport anybody. All you have to do is make it dramatically harder to get in the U.S. and dramatically harder to hire people illegally.
Ed Note:
Which is exactly what we have been saying on these pages.
— Rense Johnson.
