Newt Gingrich, the former US House speaker and presidential hopeful, said a section of his own Republican party was “rabid” over immigration and predicted Donald Trump’s suggestion that he could deport documented people as well as millions of undocumented people will not come to pass.
“I’d be very surprised if you see any significant effort to change the game for people who are here legally,” Gingrich said, weeks before Trump’s return to the White House. “I just think there’s a very small faction of the party that’s rabid about this.”
Trump’s sweeping deportation threat is unworkable and aimed at ‘rabid’ Republicans, says Newt Gingrich
Former US House speaker says documented people, Dreamers, mothers and children must not be deportedhttps://t.co/5e9IbpewK0
Thanks, Newt–why are you talking to the Guardian?
— Mark Krikorian (@MarkSKrikorian) January 14, 2025
He also warned that public support for mass deportations would “collapse” if stories began to come out “about mothers or babies or children being deported.”
