Journey to America: Newt Gingrich on immigration and Trump’s mass deportation plan

The former speaker, a close ally, says the president-elect should learn from his new PBS film on great migrants

Newt Gingrich has been a force on the right of the Republican party for close to 50 years. Elected to Congress in Georgia in 1979, he became House speaker in 1995, then spent four years pursuing all-out war against Democrats, including the impeachment of Bill Clinton.

Undeterred, he ran for the presidential nomination in 2012 and remains influential: a prolific author, forcefully pro-Trump and an adviser during the attempt to overturn the 2020 election.