US election 2012: Mitt Romney accuses Newt Gingrich of ‘highly-personal attacks’

And Romney in particular is under pressure to tone down his harsh
anti-immigrant rhetoric and explain a proposal for “self-deportation”
of illegal aliens.

A massive 11 million illegal immigrants are said to live in the shadows in the United
States
– many of them having lived here for some generations – and
proposals for dealing with them are hugely divisive.

Gingrich hit out at Romney’s proposal that illegal immigrants should willingly
go back to their countries of origin and reapply for legal entry, saying “I
don’t think grandmothers and grandfathers will self-deport.”

But Romney, who said his father was born in Mexico, and his father-in-law in
Wales, angrily replied: “I’m not going to find grandmothers and deport
them. Those are your words. Not my words.

“You know, our problem is not 11 million grandmothers. Our problem is 11
million people getting jobs that many Americans, legal immigrants would like
to have. School kids in schools that districts are having a hard time paying
for. People getting free health care because we are required to give it.”

Source: AFP

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