Posted on 12/13/2007 5:18:54 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo
Minuteman co-founder James Gilchrist's endorsement of presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has spurred a backlash among illegal-immigration opponents who say the former Arkansas governor is soft on immigration enforcement. "Mike Huckabee is pro-amnesty and favors a path to citizenship for illegal aliens currently in the U.S. that would require a lifting of current penalties," said William Gheen, whose 25,000-member Americans for Legal Immigration sent mass mailings yesterday to more than 300 pro-enforcement groups.
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Ping.
Hey, someone is gotta counter this fraudulence.
It is going to blow up in their faces. They do not realize how much they mobilized a potent anti-illegal alien movement in the last three weeks on the ground in the battle states, on this issue, and against Huckabee. Stupid move, because it has opened the whole deal to great scrutiny. Huckabee has only succeeded in sticking a BB gun into a hornets nest and pulling a trigger. Even naive Arkansas farm boys know not to pull that kind of stunt.
I think Hunter and Thompson will gain ground...since everyone else knows the score on Rudy McRomney as well on this issue of United States Sovereignty and national survival.
I will do what I can, too.
Maybe they will get a Huckabee Spokesbot to sign up ASAP on FR in a panic, to start "allaying our concerns" and "explaining further", like the White House tried to do with that guy a few months ago when they were poised to lose the Amnesty Vote, and he shows up on this Forum.
When they show up on FR in an official capacity, you know a) they are worried, and b) we have influence. I welcome them. Bring it on.
I have pinged the Stop Huck fellers
You know, HUCK does indeed represent the Ripon Republican, Nelson Rockefeller wing of the GOP. Great play on words.
LOL. the Huckafeller Republicans. Thats good.
To be added please FReepmail me or OB1KNOB.
You might want to get BillyBoy in here. He’s got some ‘splainin and apologizing to do after his feud with you.
Either if nominated will split the Republican vote in the general election handing the election to the Democrats
No conservatives should support these two DBM put-ups.
Oh, yeah, like that’s gonna happen.
Propose to provide all illegal immigrants a 120-day window to register with the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services and leave the country. Those who register and return to their home country will face no penalty if they later apply to immigrate or visit; those who do not return home will be, when caught, barred from future reentry for a period of 10 years.
Why would an illegal alien register and then leave the country? Wouldn't they just leave? Why did Huckabee pad the plan with this nonsense? Is there a trick I can't see?
Boy,old Hope,Arkansas sure knows how to pick ‘em,doesn’t it?
Must be something in the water.
Please find below a special message from MinutemanHQ.com. They have some important information to share with you.
No National Minuteman Group has endorsed Mike Huckabee.
One individual Minuteman has personally endorsed him.
For the sake of clarity, it is important to note that the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC), the nations largest Minuteman organization, is a 501(C)4 non-profit organization and cannot and does not endorse any candidate for public office. MCDC is not associated with Mr. Jim Gilchrist, who today endorsed Mike Huckabee for president.
Jim Gilchristâs erstwhile Minuteman Project is itself an organization which by its own representations as a non-profit civic group cannot legally endorse candidates. It does not have any volunteers who observe illegal border activity. It has no border fence building projects. Jim Gilchrist here speaks only for Jim Gilchrist, he does not speak for the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, nor is he nationally representative of most patriots in the Minuteman movement â who under no circumstances could ignore the failed record nor endorse the duplicitous âplanâ recently rolled out by candidate Mike Huckabee. The national media needs to recognize that Jim Gilchristâs endorsement is his own personal statement, nothing more.
The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps emphasizes policy dealing with national border security. The only plan to ensure border security that is acceptable to our constituency would be a candidate policy statement declaring that his first act as President will be to hold a press conference and announce to the American people an executive order to immediately deploy and fund 30,000 National Guard personnel to the U.S. Borders (25,000 to the southern border and 5,000 to the northern border) to complement a massive increase in U.S. Border Patrol Agent field personnel, and a bilateral effort to secure our frontiers, smash the drug cartels, shut down the human smugglers and protect the public safety of the citizens who reside along the borders on both sides of our national boundaries.
Unlike this last-minute opportunism attempted by Huckabee, many of the other GOP presidential candidates have actually helped push the issue of national border security forward for some time. ...
Sincerely for these United States,
Chris Simcox, President
Minuteman Civil Defense Corps
Lighting up right now——the nannies can go to h*** !!!
There is something very strange, imo, about this endorsement. I hope the truth comes out!
Since we don’t enforce our immigration laws now, why would an illegal even bother to go through these hoops.
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