GOP Radio Host Hugh Hewitt Proposes Immediate Amnesty: Give All The Illegal Kids Automatic Citizenship

by Warner Todd Huston | September 4, 2015 4:14 pm

As his name is on the lips of every watcher of politics today because of his foreign policy confrontation with Donald Trump, GOP radio host Hugh Hewitt has now come out on Obama’s side to say he wants to give amnesty to all the illegal immigrant kids who have flooded across our border over the last few years, illegals who have been enticed here by Obama’s amnesty offer.

Today Hewitt put out an op ed[1] at Politico saying that he wants to give amnesty to these illegals as quickly as possible, saying they “should become Americans” ASAP. In his opinion, this blanket amnesty offer would end a “humanitarian crisis” on our border.

Right now the country ought to act to end the humanitarian crisis of tens of thousands of what are, in effect, orphans and strangers in our land. The very young among them should find “forever families” right here, right now. They should become Americans. The process is not hard to imagine in broad outline or to implement quickly.

First, if a child under 13 can identify a parent, the child should be re-united with the parent immediately. Disposition of the parent’s status—in all likelihood permanent residence without citizenship if they have been here for years—can await the comprehensive immigration reform bill that will pass either after President Obama leaves office in January 2017, or if a strong Republican majority emerges from the midterms, perhaps next year, provided the bill does genuinely deliver the long, strong double-sided fence (almost certainly a minimum 1,000 miles in length) and the increased border security personnel to patrol it.

Hewitt says he wants a strong fence across the southern border, but also that all illegals already here should be given blanket amnesty.

Hewitt then laid out a series of steps he thinks can be taken to immediately issue this blanket amnesty on hundreds of thousands of these illegals and all their family members who are coming here to take advantage of Obama’s lax border policies. Hewitt also says the process he is introducing is a quick and easy fix to the immigration problem.

Endnotes:
  1. an op ed: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/07/make-the-border-kids-americans-109045

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