Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Tuesday he is "sickened" that President Bush and Congress went on vacation "while young Americans in our cities are massacred" by illegal immigrants.Mr. Gingrich has made a career out of seeing an isolated incident or tragedy, proclaiming it to be just the tip of the iceberg of underlying corruption and evil in our society, and blaming it on liberals. He's done it before with everything from Susan Smith drowning her three children to Bill Clinton getting a blow job in the Oval Office. (It turns out that at the time, Mr. Gingrich knew a little something about cheating on his wife.) This kind of exaggeration and fearmongering is his way of laying the ground for his presidential run wherein he will present himself as the only candidate who can save America and truly fight the war in Iraq, the war on terror, the war on gays, the war on brown people, and anything else he can come up with that will scare the crap out of the voters.
Gingrich, who is considering a run for the White House, was referring to a recent crime in Newark, N.J., where three college students were murdered execution style in a school playground.
One of the suspects -- Jose Lachira Carranza -- is an illegal immigrant from Peru who was on bail on charges of raping a child when the murders occurred.
Gingrich said another suspect is an illegal immigrant from Nicaragua with a long record of arrests who was ordered deported in 1993 but never left.
However, The (Newark) Star Ledger reported Tuesday that the man -- Rodolfo Godinez -- obtained permanent legal residency in 2001.
The Newark Police Department did not return requests for comment.
Gingrich said that the "war here at home" against illegal immigrants is "even more deadly than the war in Iraq and Afghanistan."
"The federal government's incompetence, timidity and uncoordinated efforts to identify and deport criminal illegal aliens have had devastating consequences for innocent Americans," Gingrich said, in a newsletter.
As for illegal immigration, Mr. Gingrich has several proposals.
Gingrich said Bush ought to be furious at the failure of bureaucracies to protect the American people.Meanwhile, he's suggesting that the government round up all the box cars they can get their hands on to ship the immigrants to "temporary camps" until their fate can be determined. He was going to call it the "final solution," but that's been taken.
In addition, he said the president should call Congress back into a special session for three days to pass a bill in honor of the slain students.
The measure should order the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security to outsource the development of an identification system to check the legal status of felons and have it up and running by Jan. 1, 2008, he said.
He added that the government should withdraw federal aid from any city, county or state that refuses to participate in checking the legal status of arrested felons.
"No illegal alien criminal will be released back into the American population to prey upon Americans," he said. "After they finish time for their crime, they will be retained until deported."
PS: Rudy Giuliani was in favor of sensible immigration reform before he was against it.
