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Influential congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) said Wednesday that New Gingrich's immigration plan was a "form of amnesty" and that he disagreed with it, adding to the chorus of critics from the right who denounced the former House Speaker's immigration plan as espoused during Tuesday's foreign policy debate.

In the debate, Gingrich said he would support an immigration policy that would allow illegal immigrants who had lived in the United States for a long time, obeyed the law, and paid their taxes to become permanent residents.

“I do not believe that the people of the United States are going to take people who’ve been here for a quarter of a century … [and] separate them from their families and expel them,” Gingrich said. “I do believe we should control the border. I do believe we should have very severe penalties.”

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