(Illegal) Alien roundup provokes Huckabee scolding

Gov. Mike Huckabee on Wednesday called last week’s federal roundup of 119 illegal aliens in Clark County "terribly planned" and wondered if it was "done for headlines." "Very little thought was given to what would happen to the children, who are by the way American citizens," Huckabee said on his monthly radio show. "I hope the next time the feds will operate with a little more common sense."

After the radio show Huckabee told reporters he would have at least given the illegal aliens a few days to gather belongings and figure out living arrangements for their children.

A spokesman for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau in New Or- leans said later that the agency doesn’t know whether the 30 to 35 children left behind after the raid are American citizens. "Our goal was to arrest people who have broken the law," said the spokesman, Temple Black. "And, in fact, these people had actual U.S. citizens’ documents and U.S. citizens’ birth certificates and U.S. citizens’ Social Security cards. These are folks that were breaking the law and were here illegally, of course. Whether it would be appropriate to give people who were lawbreakers five or six days’ notice I would have to say, ‘ No. ’"

The July 26 raid took place at the Petit Jean Poultry Inc. deboning plant at Gum Springs, just south of Arkadelphia. Poultry plant officials said they had no way of knowing the workers were illegal, since the workers had provided identification and were hired through the state’s employment security division.

The U.S. attorney’s office in Fort Smith has said the raid grew out of an investigation into a multistate identity-brokerage ring in which U.S. citizens sold documents containing their identifying information to a person in Arizona, who mailed them to a woman in Arkadelphia for resale to illegal aliens in the Clark County area.

Black said, "We as an agency are doing our best to restore the integrity of the U.S. immigration system by trying to arrest those who violate immigration and employment laws. Just for the record, the governor has not contacted either our offices or the local offices or our headquarters to discuss this issue. And we’d be more than happy to meet with him to discuss the issue."

Huckabee spokesman Jim Harris later wouldn’t say whether the governor had called the federal immigration service to express his concerns or whether he planned to do so.

On his show on the Arkansas Radio Network, Huckabee said that "we have a team of people in Arkadelphia" trying to help the children left behind. He said that includes representatives of his office and of the state Department of Human Services. "There was a total lack of communication between federal authorities and local officials, particularly the sheriff," Huckabee said. "He has an absolute right to be informed of something like this."

Black said that federal officials informed the Arkansas State Police of the raid and asked that state police inform the sheriff. But Black said he didn’t know how soon before the raid state police were informed.

Huckabee said the person behind the document scheme should be prosecuted with the "most intense hand of the law" because that person is "making money on the backs of the poorest persons in our labor force."

He also complained that the federal officials should have given the state more time "to assume the responsibilities" for caring for the children. "I have a lot of sympathy for the kids," Huckabee said.

Speaking to reporters after the show, Huckabee said his staff has found it hard to gather information in Arkadelphia to help the children because people who could help fear deportation themselves. "It’s a big mess," he said. "People are scared to death that they are going to be rounded up."

Asked if he would have preferred the federal officials allow the illegal aliens to stay in Arkansas, Huckabee said there’s a difference between "an illegal person working at a job plucking chickens — that’s what he’s doing illegal — and a person who is robbing a bank. Is there somehow some public threat that we wouldn’t even let them get their children from day care, sit down with social workers and figure out what the heck we’re going to do with a 6-year-old?

" I mean if you can’t see the distinction on those things, I can’t help you. "

He added that the illegal aliens" shouldn’t necessarily be allowed to stay. But do we not have time to sit down and bring them in and say, ‘ Look, you’re illegal, but we’re at least going to let you have six days to gather your belongings and figure out what to do with your kids’? "I resent the implication that people are making that they are illegal and they ought to be dragged out like common thugs and hauled off to sit in jails.

" We’re now paying money to feed and house them in a jail space that we’re not putting meth [amphetamine] dealers in. "Is a chicken plucker a greater threat than a meth dealer or a terrorist or an armed robber?

Black repeated statements last week that during the raid the agency had interpreters who asked whether any of the 119 had children and none said they had. He acknowledged that the workers possibly feared that authorities would round up children, also.

Black said that none of the illegal aliens seized in the Clark County raid remain in Arkansas jails. He said authorities took some to the federal agency’s facility in Texarkana. He estimated that perhaps 80 of the 119 spent one or two nights in Arkansas jails.

He said 107 have returned voluntarily to Mexico. Two were mandated to return because of outstanding orders of deportation from the United States. The remaining 10 got notice to appear before a federal immigration judge to decide their status.

Black said his telephone has been constantly ringing because of press inquiries about the raid. He said Univision, a Spanish language television channel based in Los Angeles, had a crew in Arkadelphia working on a story about the raid.

From 1995 to 2000, Arkansas had the fourth-fastest growth rate of immigrants in the country, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Between 1990 and 2000, the estimated number of illegal immigrants in Arkansas increased from 5,000 to 27,000, according to the federal Immigration and Naturalization Service. The state’s total population approximates 2.7 million. According to the 2000 U.S. Census the Hispanic population in Arkansas numbers about 86,000.

During the most recent Arkansas legislative session, Huckabee backed a bill to let illegal aliens receive statefunded college scholarships and opposed a bill that would have denied state funds to illegal aliens. Both bills failed.

Huckabee is a RINO sell-out. I'm ashamed I ever voted for him. He's changed to prepare himself for national office. Never again, Huck, never again.

From Magic City Morning Star http://magic-city-news.com/printer_4171.shtml

Paul Streitz Huckabee: A New American Quisling By Paul Streitz Jul 6, 2005, 08:57

Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee joins Senator John McCain and Senator Teddy Kennedy as a leading contestant for the 2005 Quisling of the Year Award. McCain and Kennedy were the clear front-runners with the amnesty bill for twelve million illegals and strong defense of Mexico’s southern border. But lightening struck and Governor Mike came out of nowhere to make it a three-way race in a stunning speech to the LULAC convention in Little Rock (League of United Latin American Citizens).

The Quisling Award is giving annually to the American who surrenders the most of America to a foreign government. The award is named after Vidkun Quisling, who when the Germans invaded in Norway promptly got on the radio and surrendered the whole country. After the war, the Norwegians tried him, found him guilty and executed him for treason.

The Arkansas News Bureau records his treason as follows: "In a impassioned speech before hundreds of influential Hispanic civil rights leaders from across the nation, Gov. Mike Huckabee told a captive audience Wednesday that America is great because it has always opened it doors up to people seeking a better way of life."

Huckabee then made the most stunning admission of complete capitulation to the Illegals that have replaced American workers throughout Arkansas, "Pretty soon, Southern white guys like me may be in the minority,’ Huckabee said jokingly as the crowd roared in laughter."

It would seem that a lot of Southern white guys in Arkansas who lost their jobs to illegals are not going to be laughing, at all. If Gov. Huckabee appears at any NASCAR race, there is a good chance he might be accidentally hit by a flying lug wrench. Huckabee then goes on to be an open borders advocate, "I would hope that no matter who we are, or where we are from, that America should always be a place that opens its arms, opens it heart, opens its spirit to people who come because they want the best for their families," Huckabee said, as the largely Hispanic audience gave him a standing ovation.

The most notorious employer of illegals in the country funds Gov. Huckabee. The News Bureau further reports, "Huckabee was the keynote speaker, along with Tyson Foods Inc. Chairman and CEO John Tyson, at a noon luncheon of the League of United Latin American Citizens, which is holding its 76th annual convention in Little Rock."

Before Huckabee spoke, John Tyson thanked the Hispanic community for standing by the Springdale-based food giant during the federal government's investigation of the company a few years ago. The U.S. Justice Department investigation alleged that Tyson helped to smuggle illegal aliens into the U.S. and employed them at various chicken-processing plants across the Southeast. After a seven-week trial, Tyson and several managers of poultry processing plants were acquitted in March 2003 of those charges. "At the time, it was a very difficult and very tough time for our company," Tyson said. "Thank you LULAC for standing by us."

"I am proud to tell you that more than 40,000 of our workers are Latinos," Tyson said of the company's 114,000 employees. "We are learning, growing and benefiting from that diversity." These are 40,000 jobs that had employed Americans from Arkansas. They were replaced by illegals.

Tyson foods became the poster boy for a new economic term, "occupational displacement." This is when the hiring of immigrants becomes so great that it destroys the occupation (meatpacker) for the native residents. Generations of men who had supported themselves and their families with the tough, low skilled jobs of the plant were displaced by lower wage illegals. (Note: the same thing happened in the 1890’s. Factories and coalmines in Pennsylvania employed native Scots-German and Irish workers. These workers would be replaced when the company brought in non-English speaking Europeans, at lower wages. Deja vu, all over again.)

Sooner or later John Tyson is going to jail and the sooner the better. His company has been relentless in replacing Americans with low wage illegals. When the Immigration Control movement gains control of the White House and the legislative bodies of Congress, one of the first orders of business should be to throw this S.O.B. in jail. Further, this company should be hammered with RICO suits. The entire Tyson Foods operation is a sleaze ball conspiracy to import illegals and put them to work in Tyson’s meat packing plants.

Tyson Foods escaped prosecution and palmed the hiring of illegals on to a few "rogue" plant managers, rather than a deliberate corporate policy. Tyson had put up posters in Mexico telling the illegals streaming north that there were jobs at Tyson. They also hired corrupt laborer brokers who recruited in Mexico. But the corporation was smart, left no paper trail and the witnesses against it were lower level managers who had pleaded guilty.

It is clear that Gov. Huckabee has sold out to the corporations desiring more illegal immigration. No doubt, he received large contributions for his political campaign from Tyson Foods. If one recalls, Hillary Clinton invested a thousand dollars with James Blair, then an attorney working as outside counsel to Tyson Foods. Hillary picked up a cool hundred thousand dollars in a year’s time.

The Republican governor has backed in-state tuition bills for illegals and been against bills that would require verification of citizenship to vote and report illegals in the country. "Huckabee is ready to sell out Americans and the good citizens of Arkansas at every turn." He said, "Arkansas needs to make the transition from a traditional Southern state to one that recognizes and cherishes diversity "in culture, in language and in population." In other words, surrender to the illegals. Most amazingly, the Arkansas news bureau reports that "many believe will run for president in 2008." This must be some sort of delusional fever running through Gov. Huckabee’s mind. Apparently, he does not read the political polls or talk to anyone but his Tyson Foods benefactors. Every political poll shows that Americans overwhelming approve of deporting illegals and putting troops on the border. However, these quisling politicians believe they can be elected to high federal office after creating a national immigration disaster by selling out to illegals and the companies that hire them.

This quisling, Gov. Mike Huckabee, will be lucky if he gets elected to dogcatcher in Arkansas, much less President of the United States.

Paul Streitz CT Citizens for Immigration Control

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