I’m voting for Hunter. If he drops out I’ll vote for Tancredo.
What a piece of work. Another phony, diversity pimping idiot.
IMMIGRATION
* My number one priority is to secure America's border.
* We have to know who is coming into our country, where they are going, and why they are here. We need a fence along our border with Mexico, electronic in some places, and more highly-trained border agents.
* Those who are caught trying to enter illegally must be detained, processed, and deported.
* Illegal immigrants already living among us who commit crimes must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and incarcerated or deported.
I opposed the amnesty bill that was defeated by the Senate in June. I support the $3 billion that Congress recently appropriated for border security. These funds will be used to train and deploy 23,000 more agents, add four drone airplanes, build 700 miles of fence and 300 miles of vehicle barriers, and erect 105 radar and camera towers. They will be used to end "catch and release" by providing money to "catch and detain" those caught entering illegally and to crack down on those who enter legally, but overstay their visas. These border security provisions will stem the tide of illegals, which is what we must do before we can turn the tide and deal with those who are already here. Before you fix the damage in your house caused by a leaking roof, you stop the leak, which is what this legislation will do.
My number one priority is to have a secure border. Right now, we have too many people entering the country illegally, and this must stop. We can't turn the tide until we stem the tide. We need to know who is coming into our country, where they are going, and why they are here. We need to create a process to allow people to come here to do the jobs - plucking chickens, tarring roofs, picking fruits - that are going unfilled by our citizens. They must have a tamper-proof, scannable I. D. with a finger or retinal scan, so that their employers know they belong here.
Besides stopping terrorists, we must weed out those with a criminal background or a communicable disease. We have to build a fence along our border with Mexico, parts of which will be electronic. We need more well-trained border agents and cooperation agreements with local and state law enforcement officials, so that we have a clear and consistent approach by all jurisdictions.
Those who are caught trying to enter illegally must be detained, processed, and deported. Illegal immigrants who are already living among us and commit crimes must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and incarcerated or deported.
“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.
And those immigrants were legal and became American citizens because they believed in the American ideal. Equating the current crop who want to annex the Southern US to Mexico and hate the idea of America with former immigrants is sophistry.
Bill Richardson wants to secure our borders and penalize employers of illegal aliens working in the United States. Mike Huckabee agrees and adds that the United States needs to increase the number of border patrol agents to deter potential illegals from entering our borders along with a tamper proof identification system that can help ICE to track people within our borders better than we now do.
Uh oh.
Shades of Clinton; yet from behind the cloth.
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From the Way Back When Machine:
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Mike Huckabee on Illegal Immigration: The Kids Matter
Over the weekend the MSM published a story claiming that Mike Huckabee will run for president. At almost the same time, the supposed Republican field for 2008 narrowed significantly with the potential loss of John McCain and Bill Frist to the filibuster fiasco.
Suddenly our email is flooded with attacks on Huckabee (what a shock!).
Actually, we’re glad to see this because to us it means that people are starting to take seriously the possibility that Mike Huckabee not only will run, but might in fact win the nomination.
By far the most frequent and hysterical accusation we’re seeing is that Mike Huckabee is perceived to be “liberal” on illegal immigration. Wingers seem to have seized upon his recent support for making prenatal care and college scholarships available to the children of illegal immigrants and turned it into belief that Huckabee wants an open door policy and freebies for anybody and everybody who wants to come to America illegally.
Not true.
We’ve blogged here previously about the Governor’s reasons for supporting higher education for these children.
Now, to help set the record straight on Mike Huckabee’s position on illegal immigration, we offer the following excerpts from a February 2005 article published by the Arkansas News Bureau.
By David Robinson
Arkansas News Bureau
LITTLE ROCK - Gov. Mike Huckabee got to speak directly Wednesday with Arkansans who don’t like his positions on immigration.
One caller to the “Ask the Governor” radio program on the Arkansas Radio Network accused Huckabee of ignoring the law when it comes to illegal immigrants.
“Did you not take an oath to uphold the laws of this land?” asked Chris, a caller from Little Rock.
“Absolutely,” Huckabee replied.
“OK, then why would you turn a blind eye to illegal immigrants invading our country and coming in and basically breaking our laws?’ the caller asked.
Huckabee said that he wasn’t, and that he believes illegal aliens who try to vote or try to apply for welfare benefits should be arrested.
“If they’re caught as illegal aliens, I don’t have any problem with sending them back,” Huckabee said.
But the governor did not back down on his positions in support of certain benefits for the children of illegal aliens, such as allowing prenatal care for pregnant immigrants and his proposal to offer scholarships to undocumented children who graduate from an Arkansas high school.
He also criticized Senate Bill 206 by Sen. Jim Holt, R-Springdale, that would impose new restrictions on illegal immigrants in Arkansas. He said the bill could hurt the state’s ability to recruit industries based in countries outside the U.S., such as Toyota or Nestle, a Swiss company.
“If we send a message that essentially if you don’t look like us, talk like us and speak like us we don’t want you, it has tremendous economic repercussions,” Huckabee said.
Huckabee also sought to dispel certain perceptions about the benefits that illegal immigrants are getting in Arkansas.
Huckabee repeated to several callers that illegal immigrants do not receive welfare benefits or food stamps or free health care. They do get free public education for their children, but that’s required under the Arkansas Constitution, Huckabee said.
“And frankly I think we would want to make sure that their kids were getting an education because an educated society is a society that can work and do a job and do a better job and make money,” Huckabee said.
As for allowing immigrants to receive free prenatal care, Huckabee said that’s part of his pro-life sentiment as well as that of Amendment 65 of the state constitution, which says that Arkansas considers life to begin at conception.
“I believe that because it’s a human life, then by our law and by our constitution even that unborn child is an Arkansas citizen because he or she is going to be born in this state,” Huckabee said. “The prenatal care for the entire pregnancy costs less than one-third of what one day in the neonatal unit at Children’s Hospital would cost if the child has complications at birth.”
Unfortunately, I can see him going deep in the primaries and be a possible VP pick. He's a religious man and that'll lock up the socons.
Slave-labor bump
I have been trying to tell others of Huckabee’s pro amnesty - open border views for a long time.
We don’t need another small state, low population guy.
Clintoon was enough.
Go back to the Old Testament and see how the alien and the stranger, in order to be a part of the Hebrew nation had to assimilate--embrace the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the whole of the Law, which would be like a Divinely given Constitution. There was no multiculturalism, except in times of apostasy.
I'm afraid the Governor would be a carbon copy of GWB.
Careful- there is still a handfull of Huckabee-lovers here on FR who may flame you for posting anything negative about their “man”.
The only presidential candidate to vote for is one that will put up a 2,000 mile fence across our border and deport illegals. All other politicians that tell you that they want more border patrol agents and a “comprehensive illegal immigration program” are full of sh*t.
I thought he, candidate Huckabee, was ANTI-illegal immigration.
MY, this puts an entirely different spin on things!!
That's as far as I needed to read. Culture is absolutely critical. Cultural diversity will destroy this country. Huckabee may hold his position out of ignorance or not; nevertheless, he is very dangerous and must be defeated.
Demand a border fence! Build it NOW!! Beef up the border patrol and close our borders! Stop the DREAM Act!!
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