Gingrey speaks, hears public about immigration

Concerns over the nation’s immigration policies took center stage at Tuesday’s town hall meeting in Cedartown hosted by U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey.

Gingrey (R-Marietta) is on the campaign trail, but opened his comments with a promise to avoid campaign rhetoric. He did not mention his Democratic opponent (Patrick Pillion, of Carrollton) nor discuss their differing policy stances.

Gingrey spoke briefly at Cedartown City Hall On Oct. 17. He talked about some of the changes in immigration policy he endorsed and about some of the bills pending before the House. Afterward, he took questions from the audience. A numbe of those questions also were about immigration issues.

Gingrey stressed that he agrees the system is broken and is being abused by illegal aliens. Immigration policy is one of the few issues on which he disagrees with the nation’s president, he said.

“People accuse me of being a rubber stamp for President Bush,” Gingrey said. “I’ll rubber stamp him all day on those issues that the people of my district support.

“But on immigration, his plan sounds a lot like amnesty to me.”

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