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PEWAUKEE, Wis. (AP) _ Republican Newt Gingrich joked on Friday that the federal government should rely on FedEx or UPS to find illegal immigrants in the United States.
  Grace Metcalf, 4, waits with her sibling and mother Tina to hear Democratic presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Barack Obama campaign for president at Mount Moriah Baptist Chruch Friday June 15, 2007, in Spartanburg, S.C. Obama spoke about strengthening family values in today's economy. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain) (Mary Ann Chastain - AP) 
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Gingrich, who is weighing a bid for president, said national couriers can send and track thousands of moving packages simultaneously while the government can't find millions of illegal immigrants who are stationary.
"We should spend a couple hundred million dollars to send a package to every illegal immigrant," he said to laughter. "FedEx and UPS will find them and we'll have them right there on the computer screen. Done."
In an address to about 300 people at a taxpayer rally, Gingrich called the immigration bill backed by President Bush a "monstrosity" that is "fundamentally dishonest and impossible to implement.
"The problem here is not illegal immigration, it's American employers who willfully refuse to enforce law," said the former House speaker and Georgia congressman.
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NEW YORK (AP) _ New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says people might be puzzled about his weekend destination: New Hampshire, the home of the nation's first presidential primary.
But the billionaire mayor, the subject of presidential speculation despite his denials, said it's purely a social visit.
"People will read into the fact that I'm going to be in New Hampshire tomorrow," Bloomberg conceded Friday on his radio show.
"They have a primary there, you know," noted host John Gambling.
"That may be, but the truth of the matter is I'm going to be in New Hampshire just for dinner," said Bloomberg. He went on to explain that he was heading there for one evening to attend his girlfriend's college reunion.
