Posted on 01/08/2008 7:31:11 AM PST by 3AngelaD
Mike Huckabee wants to amend the Constitution to prevent children born in the U.S. to illegal aliens from automatically becoming American citizens, according to his top immigration surrogate — a radical step no other major presidential candidate has embraced.
Mr. Huckabee, who won last week's Republican Iowa caucuses, promised Minuteman Project founder James Gilchrist that he would force a test case to the Supreme Court to challenge birthright citizenship, and would push Congress to pass a 28th Amendment to the Constitution to remove any doubt.
The former Arkansas governor thinks the case against U.S. Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean was railroaded, Mr. Gilchrist said. Ramos and Compean are serving lengthy prison sentences for shooting a fleeing drug-smuggling suspect in the buttocks....
Mr. Huckabee has defended his policies on illegal aliens while he was Arkansas governor. He pressed for illegal aliens to gain college tuition benefits, complained about federal immigration raids in his state and declined to have state police enforce immigration laws, although the state legislature gave him the authority to do so....
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Oh, sure, RON PAUL came up with this idea “originally”.
I suppose he invented the internet, too?
Getting in on this historic thread.
FWIW, I support Birthright Citizenship. IMO if you’re American-born, you should be able to be an American.
And no, that doesn’t have to give your possibly-illegal parents any immigration benefit.
I’m not sure how this punishes a child the day they are born. On the contrary, it simply serves not to reward the child for the sins of the parents.
nope, more like he’ll say anything to get the gig is all. This guy would make Elmer Gantry blush.
Sorry, I was using Huckabee’s own rhetoric about how not giving scholorships to illegals was “punishing” them. Of course, a rational immigration policy is not about punishing anybody. It is about the US acting in our own national interest.
I think the ‘anchor baby’ issue is the single worst immigration policy a country can have. The number of immigrants who actually cross the border is relatively small compared to the babies they have once they get here. The ‘anchor baby’ rule actually encourages these illegals to have babies in an attempt to become citizens themselves. We need to rewrite the laws in such a way that they discourage these illegals from having children, by first getting rid of the right to citizenship for all who are born here. For instance, it should be harder to become a citizen if you have dependent children. (I’m open to other ideas, but clearly there should be some way to discourage, rather than encourage immigrants having lots of babies).
If Lron Paul had kept his friggan mouth shut at the first debate over the Iraq war and said instead..although he supports the war, he believes that that constitutionally that war might be illegal.
Instead he got on this months long dip shit howlathon and went completely off his rocker.
BTW. Fred Thompson always opposed ALL ILLEGAL Immigration.
I will give SOME of them a pass on what they did as governors- they did what their people elected them to do...
but not all of it.
There is a good argument for denying citizenship to illegal aliens- the contituions say anyone born in the US AND UNDER THE LAWS AND JURISDICTION OF the us is a citizen.
If the meant simply that anyone born in the US is a citizen, they would have left it at that.
I wish there was some clarification from the original writers of what they meant.
Pretty safe comment considering Presidents can’t change the constitution.
That’s interesting. Not sure what to make of it. In defense of changing ones mind on issues, specifically immigration, I must confess that until 9/11, I, along with many others paid little attention to immigration, illegal or otherwise. But given the challenges and threats this country faces, it has forced us to take a good hard look at what we are allowing as a country; the economic and security threat that our open border policy is bringing about. We MUST allow people to change their minds, otherwise debating issues would be pointless.
Since he’ll pay for services for them anyway, no need to make them citizens.
As well they should be.Come to think of it I feel the same way about some of the pubbie candidates.
As well they should be.Come to think of it I feel the same way about some of the pubbie candidates.
Jan Mikkelson strikes again..
I blew that.They, should be you, sorry.
Hickabee is just another slick from Arkansas....no different from the other slick Willie except that he plays a guitar instead of a saxaphone.
Sen. Reverdy Johnson of Maryland explained during floor debate on the amendment, saying, "...all this amendment provides is, that all persons born in the United States and not subject to some foreign power {visitors, tourists} -- for that no doubt is the meaning of the committee...-- shall be considered as citizens of the United States." The author of the provision, Sen. Jacob Howard, announced that the clause "will not, of course, include foreigners."
Nevermind that.... he loves Jesus, doncha know!
not true. ron paul has been saying this for a while.
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