Newt Gingrich warns Trump 'rabid' Republicans threaten his top priority with 'collapse'

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is advising President-elect Donald Trump that his vows to enact mass deportations carry a major political risk.

As The Guardian reported, Gingrich is warning Trump that support for mass deportations will "collapse" if people start to hear stories "about mothers or babies or children being deported" under his administration.

Gingrich also said that Trump shouldn't listen to the faction of his base that wants to deport undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children.

"It’s nonsense to say somebody who came here when they were two, only speaks English, graduated as a high school valedictorian and is currently a nurse or a doctor should be deported," he said. "We’re going to deport them and they don’t speak the language of whatever country their parents came from, and they’ve earned the right to be Americans?"

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In addition to this, Gingrich predicted that Trump would not move against immigrants who are in the United States legally, such as the Haitian immigrants whom he demonized as pet eaters during the 2024 presidential campaign.

“I’d be very surprised if you see any significant effort to change the game for people who are here legally,” Gingrich said. “I just think there’s a very small faction of the party that’s rabid about this.”