Newt’ Gingrich interestingly proposes that we imitate the 1940 Selective Service Act in leaving who would be granted amnesty—or some form of legalized status—to local citizen boards, as the Selective Service Act left it to the discretion of local draft boards who would be required to serve and who would be granted deferments. Gingrich doesn’t answer the complaints of those opponents of “amnesty” who say that immigration boards in heavily liberal areas like Los Angeles County would grant amnesty to everybody who applied. In contrast, one suspects that local boards in Alabama, say, would grant legalized status to pretty much no one, except perhaps people with personal connections to people they knew.