During Tuesday night’s national security debate on CNN, Newt Gingrich said he was “prepared to take the heat” for his position that immigration laws ought to be enforced “humanely” in order to avoid unnecessarily breaking up families.

Near the end of the debate, moderator Wolf Blitzer questioned Gingrich about his 1986 vote in the House of Representatives for an immigration reform bill that granted amnesty to those who entered the country illegally before 1982. Blitzer asked what a President Gingrich would do about the millions of immigrants currently residing in the country illegally.