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seven-point lead over former massachusetts governor, mitt romney. and among tea party supporters in the hawkeye state, gingrich is now the runaway favorite. now the question -- did gingrich put all of that at risk last night when he walked into the wiquick sand of republican politics. how to treat millions of illegal immigrants. >> i'm prepared to take the heat for saying, let's be humane and enforcing the law without giving them citizenship but by finding a way to create legality so that they are not separated from their families. >> not a new position. here's gingrich this week in ...

You said the amnesty issue is symbolic powerful expression about the difference between eric cantor and i on jobs. cantor is saying we should bring more folks to the country n-crease the labor supply and by doing so lower wage rates for the working person. his policies make no sense. how big an issue do you think the immigration issue was in this campaign? >> well, i think it's big. it's the most symbolic issue that captures the differences between myself and eric cantor in this race, but it also captures that fissure between main street and wall street. you ask yourself why are the republican...

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Deport them is counter to what most businesses want, certainly small businesses. but they certainly don't want them to be able to be organized and have the right to speak out by joining organized labor or even having the rights of citizenship. right now they're powerless to speak back. that's what they want. >> that's what they do. >> that's the issue. that's right. >> you give amnesty. or if you get a pathway to citizenship, these low-wage workers, especially in the service industry are going to go right into unions, that's exactly what the conservatives are concerned about, that's what the c...

>> you give amnesty. or if you get a pathway to citizenship, these low-wage workers, especially in the service industry are going to go right into unions, that's exactly what the conservatives are concerned about, that's what the corporations are concerned about. this was newt gingrich's response after michele bachmann pressed the amnesty issue last night. >> i don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here for a quarter century. i'm prepared to take the heat in saying let's be humane in enforci...