Newt Gingrich: Track Illegal Immigrants Like Fedex UPS

Republican Presidential Nominee Newt Gingrich was speaking to a crowd in Rosemont, Illinois this week to rally support to his campaign.

Gingrich told the crowd FedEx and UPS track 24 million packages a day, with no additional cost to customers. That was when Gingrich’s speech went a little wacky.

He then said:

“Now over here you have the federal government, the world that doesn’t work. And the federal government today cannot find 11 million illegal immigrants even if they’re sitting still. So one of my suggestions was, what if we were to mail a package to every person who’s here illegally, and then when it got delivered we would pull them up and we would know exactly where it was because it would be in UPS and FedEx.”

Gingrich said that he was just trying to emphasize a point:

“But let me make the point in a very real way as it affects the federal government.”

Newt said by modernizing the anti-fraud systems for Medicaid and Medicare in a similar way to American Express credit cards, the federal government would save billions of dollars.

“The current estimate for the amount we would save if you had a modern anti-fraud system in Medicaid and Medicare is between $16 and $110 billion dollars. In a 10-year period that would be $600 billion to a trillion dollars in savings.”

Former Senator Rick Santorum has been publicly urging Newt to drop out of the race and let him go head to head with front runner Mitt Romney. Gingrich insists he is in the campaign all the way to the convention in Tampa.

Do you think Newt Gingrich is a little strange?