Newt Gingrich is at it again.  He sat down for an interview yesterday with CNN and repeated the idea that most of the world ridiculed when he offered it at the most recent Republican presidential debate.  The notion that local panels or juries would decide the fate of immigrants who are in the country illegally boggles the mind.  But he is serious.  He apparently believes that citizens other than hate-filled, blood-thirsty bigots would serve on the local boards.

Gingrich would have us believe, too, that such a system could be built.  The mountains of files, the numbers of lawyers, the need to hire experts to verify piles of paper – the whole thing is an unworkable mess.  Come to think of it already exists.  It used to be called the INS.

However unseemly and unmanageable his idea, Gingrich presses on.  His new system would never, ever grant citizenship or voting rights to the immigrant community – even after 25 years of lawful and productive existence.

You would think that someone from Georgia – especially someone who seeks to convince the public that he was paid $100 million to provide “historical perspective” to corporate interests after he left the Speakership – would know the definition of slavery.

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