http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2007/12/oof-huckabee-on.html
Oof!: Huckabee: Only Racists Or Nativists Oppose Bush Plan
And this isn’t while he was governor, it was in defense of Bush’s comprehensive immigration reform.
Wrote in his 2007 book that implementing strict enforcement of immigration laws “would be sheer folly”
2006: Supported President Bush’s immigration plan and claimed that opposition to Bush’s proposal was driven by “racism or nativism” and that it wasn’t amnesty. (Ralph Hallow, “Huckabee ‘Serious’ About Presidency,” Washington Times, 5/17/06)
Helped lead the effort to open a Mexican Consulate in Little Rock to issue Matricula Consular cards to Mexicans living in the U.S. (including those in the U.S. illegally). Many banks, including some in Arkansas, accept the card as a valid form of identification. (Jon Gambrell, “Ark. Candidates Criticize Mexican Matricula Cards,” AP, 10/18/06)