Meet the GOP's Border Control Cross-Dressers

Every Democrat running for president thinks anti-illegal immigration activists are all racists and xenophobes. Do we really need a Republican nominee for president who thinks the same way?

Breakout GOP candidate Mike Huckabee, the soft-on-border control former governor of Arkansas, scored a jaw-dropping endorsement Tuesday from Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project. Despite a long gubernatorial record opposing employer sanctions and pushing tax-subsidized illegal alien education benefits, Huckabee won Gilchrist's support by unveiling a last-minute, tough-sounding homeland security plan.

Trouble is, Huckabee has downright and longstanding contempt for his new bedfellows of convenience.

Just two years ago, Huckabee appeared before the open-borders Hispanic group, The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), preaching an open-door policy. According to the Arkansas News Bureau, Huckabee also criticized state legislation requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and enhanced reporting of illegal aliens as un-Christian, un-American, irresponsible and anti-life -- not to mention "inflammatory," "race-baiting" and "demagoguery."

Just last year, Huckabee lambasted opponents of the bipartisan shamnesty bill providing a mass pardon to illegal aliens as "driven by racism or nativism." He called strict immigration enforcement -- the kind he now supports -- "sheer folly" in his campaign-timed book released earlier this year. He actively invited the Mexican government to establish a consulate in Arkansas -- giving its office a $1 per year special office space rate -- so that its foreign officials could start dispensing security-undermining matricula consular ID cards to illegal aliens for banking and employment purposes. And he's not only for government in-state illegal alien discounts, he's for expanding them far beyond what the federal DREAM Act proposed.

But now that he needs to establish his border control bona fides, Huckabee is all honey. "Frankly, Jim," he said to the Minuteman Project founder at a press conference in Iowa on Tuesday, "I've got to tell you there were times in the early days of the Minutemen I thought, 'What are these guys doing, what are they about?' I confess I owe you an apology."

It's Gilchrist and those who allow themselves to be snowed by Huckabee's cynical conversion who'll be sorry and deep in apology debt, I guarantee you. Huckabee showed his true colors at the Univision Spanish-language debate over the weekend when he pandered to the crowd by lamenting "racial profiling" of immigrants -- while remaining silent about catch-and-release policies that fail to detain criminal aliens who go on to commit more heinous crimes because politically correct politicians and police chiefs are more concerned with being accused of "racial profiling" than protecting the public.

Huckabee isn't the only shameless border control cross-dresser in the GOP field, of course. Rudy "I supported sanctuary policies before I was against them, but my sanctuary policy wasn't really a sanctuary policy, anyway" Giuliani now quotes "the advice of a great man, Father Hesburgh, who said, 'We must close the back door of illegal immigration in order to preserve the front door of legal immigration.'" In an interview with Washington Examiner reporter and author Bill Sammon, Giuliani now says he really, truly would have deported 400,000 illegal aliens in New York if he could have. Never mind that small matter of the lawsuit he brought against the feds to block them from enforcing immigration laws. Never mind that he was openly inviting illegal aliens into his open-borders safe harbors.

Reports Sammon: "Some of the hardest-working and most productive people in this city are undocumented aliens," the mayor said at a 1994 press conference. "If you come here and you work hard and you happen to be in an undocumented status, you're one of the people who we want in this city. You're somebody that we want to protect, and we want you to get out from under what is often a life of being like a fugitive, which is really unfair."

Bringing up the false convert rear is Sen. John McCain. Earlier this year, he was the most vocal critic of grass-roots conservatives who mobilized against the amnesty bill. He now says he has learned his lesson and supports securing the border. He has learned nothing. During the shamnesty debacle, he called Rush Limbaugh a "nativist"; over the weekend, he repeated such contemptuous "straight talk" at the Univision debate by assailing what he called anti-Hispanic rhetoric. In an interview with the New Yorker, he irritatedly dismissed immigration concerns in Iowa as marginal and irrational -- just a bunch of "senior citizens" in Iowa caught up in the "emotion" of a cultural assault.

Bad enough that the Democrat candidates are still stuck in a 9/10 mentality on the nexus between immigration and national security. The question for conservatives is: Would a Republican immigration drag queen be any better -- or worse?

“...those who formally rule take their signals and commands, not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men (plus a few women). This group will be called the Establishment. It exists even though that existence is stoutly denied; it is one of the secrets of the American social order. A second secret is the fact that the existence of the Establishment - the ruling class - is not supposed to be discussed. A third secret is implicit in what has been said - that there is really only one political party of any consequence in the United States, one that has been called the ‘Property Party.’ The Republicans and the Democrats are in fact two branches of the same (secret) party.”
Arthur S. Miller, George Washington University

It is like a pneumatic pressure door. You push it open, it stays that way for awhile. Then, you let your hand off, walk away, the door returns to its original position.

Closed.

Conservatives are FOOLS if they think these "Doors" are going to stay in the open position into November and well afterwards. They are going right straight back to the closed position.

These RINOS are going to go from strong pro-borders, pro-deportation in the Jan/Feb/March/April primaries, and revert right back to COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATISM and Amnesty and Path To Citizenship and Let's Keep Families Together To Do the Jobs Americans Will Not Do, if the are nominated in the Summer or elected in the Fall.

They will be signing the next big MASS AMNESTY FOR 20 MILLION ILLEGALS in 2009, with Ted Kennedy and Lindsey Graham laughing by his side.

GEORGE W. BUSH WAS KIDDING WHEN HE SAID "SEE YOU AT THE SIGNING". Thing is, it may well happen in the follow on Rino Administration, not his.

We have three or so short weeks to educate a LOT OF PEOPLE on the ground in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada, Wyoming.

(and some would say FRED)

Sorry, but Fred is out in front of the pack on this issue, he just doesn't blow millions trying to brag about it. Fred is on the record for No Amnesty, he also wants to get rid of anchor babies and chain migration.

As usual, Fred "Gets It."

Thompson Against Anchor Babies
15 September 2007 Written by: WTH Posted under Uncategorized, Fred Thompson, In the News, 2008 Elections, Illegal Immigration, 2008 Presidential Elections, Thompson's Record, Media Coverage Here is a great one to discuss. The so-called anchor baby is where an illegal immigrant comes here just to have their baby so that the baby is an automatic citizen. It has been so badly abused and Thompson has announced his willingness to revisit this law.
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Fred Thompson speaks out on immigration issues

On his campaign swing through Florida, Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson has hammered away illegal immigration, saying that America must secure its borders to ensure national security.

Friday, he went a step further.

Thompson, a former senator from Tennessee, said it might be time to reconsider the country’s long-standing practice — one prescribed by the Constitution — of granting citizenship to any child born on U.S. soil.
“That law was created in another time and place for valid reasons,” Thompson said during a campaign stop here. “It probably needs to be revisited.”

The granting of citizenship to anyone born in the United States is included in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

It says, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside.”

The U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed that in an 1898 court decision involving a Chinese man born in the U.S. to parents who were not citizens.

Since then, anyone born in the U.S. has been automatically granted citizenship apart from rare exceptions involving the children of foreign diplomats.

Friday, Thompson – for the second day in a row said he was willing to reconsider that.

“The question is whether or not it would require a constitutional amendment or change in law,” he said. He also said he wasn’t sure such a provision would ever pass.

“That one, I’m not sure about.”

Thompson said that the issue of automatic citizenship for children of illegal immigrants is not his primary concern.

“It’s not their fault,” he said. “They don’t determine where they’re born.”

A bigger problem, he said, was so-called “chain migration” – the practice of giving preferential treatment to the immediate family members of children who are born here.

Thompson said under current law, those children can “grow up and be used as anchors to bring in other people.”

He said he was “dead set” against that.

Thompson’s willingness to entertain the idea of withholding citizenship for children born here illustrates how important the immigration issue has become to Republican presidential candidates.

All have taken a hard line against illegal immigration but as of Friday no other contender has gone as far as Thompson

So, looks like Fred was first to get to the HEART of the matter which is the giveaway of American Citizenship just because an illegal alien blows one out on US Territory. AND he is saying NO ANCHOR BABIES. The reason? CHAIN MIGRATION. Which is the monster that will kill this nation.

Now when FRED says he is "Dead Set Against It" I tend to believe him. Unlike other candidates that are still trying to chase off the illegals from their own landscaping service just two weeks ago.

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