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Huckabee signs Sen. Sessions' Immigration Pledge
CBSNEWS ^ | February 2, 2008 | Joy Lin

Posted on 02/02/2008 2:25:14 PM PST by Tennessee Nana

TUSCALOOSA, ALA. -- Mike Huckabee has changed his mind and will sign an Alabama senator’s immigration pledge for presidential candidates - an effort to defeat the McCain-Kennedy proposal in the U.S. Senate.

In Birmingham last week, Huckabee said he was almost ready to sign the pledge put forth by Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., but was on the fence regarding one of its aspects. "Which one?" a reporter asked.

Huckabee said it had to do with the 13th point of the 15-point pledge, one to “eliminate the visa lottery program and change current preference categories that guarantee automatic entry for aging parents and extended family members and replace it with a system that fairly and objectively evaluates at least 50% of applicants based on characteristics such as education, skills, English ability, and age.”

Huckabee said he wasn't sure if the ratio for immigrants with advanced degrees was "arbitrary" or flexible enough for changing needs.

"Everything else about it is...absolutely fantastic," Huckabee said. "That's the one piece we haven't been able to completely work on. Hopefully we can get with Senator Sessions to get that verified."

Later at a rally in Tuscaloosa, Huckabee announced he would sign Sessions' pledge. Asked about the decision during the media avail that followed, he said, "Point 13 dealt with ratios of people in engineering-- we looked at that and decided it really is not a big issue and certainly not something that ought to keep us from signing it. It's very consistent with our 9-point immigration plan so I thought, what better time to do it than when I'm in Alabama."

Regarding the seemingly quick manner in which he decided to sign the pledge, he said, "We've been looking at it for about a week…I looked at it last night and today and decided when we got here that this would be a great time to sign the pledge."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; elections; flipflop; flipflophuckabee; huckabee; huckster; immigrantlist; immigration; politicians; promisethemanything; quislings
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To: cradle of freedom

As far as Mitt’s inconsistencies, I don’t think he is a staunch conservative on all issues such as the social issues, but you have to cut him some slack because in order to get elected in Massachusetts you have to jump through all kinds of politically correct flaming hoops

So what you are saying is, he had to lie to get elected to be gov in Mass?


161 posted on 02/02/2008 10:21:42 PM PST by make no mistake
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To: Tennessee Nana

Symbolic act on Huck’s part but a good one...un-Juan like.


162 posted on 02/03/2008 12:38:48 AM PST by Baladas
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To: ApplegateRanch

>>AND, it says NOTHING about not granting amnesty<<

Wrong, see item #14.

>>And, it is almost pointless, due to the final statement.<<

???????


163 posted on 02/03/2008 4:22:20 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (I want to "Buy American" but the only things for sale made in the USA are politicians)
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To: make no mistake

So who of the three is without sin as far as telling the truth?


164 posted on 02/03/2008 4:19:54 PM PST by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: Tennessee Nana

My Senator, Mr. Sessions, is about one of the hand full of republicans I still trust.


165 posted on 02/03/2008 4:21:10 PM PST by RetiredArmy (America wants socialism. It wants it all for free. It wants the government to provide all.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Can we say RINO Romney, RINO Huckabee and RINO McCain?

I think Romney is the best of the RINO’s. I think we could work with him. Don’t tell yourself that the other two are solid conservatives because they are not. They have been all over the place as well.


166 posted on 02/03/2008 4:23:38 PM PST by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: cradle of freedom

Can we say RINO Romney, RINO Huckabee and RINO McCain?

____________________________________________________

Of course we can

The Siamese Triplet RINOs

RINOs R Us


167 posted on 02/03/2008 4:29:41 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Providing "a pathway to citizenship" is NOT the same as granting amnesty...just ask McCain.

By signing this document, I express to the American people that I understand the challenges of ending illegal immigration, I am personally committed to that goal, and I will take the actions reasonable and necessary to achieve it.

Ending illegal immigration is not doing anything about getting rid of the millions already here; and "reasonable and necessary" are in the mind of the weasel interpreting the phrase.

It IS meaningless noises, meant to placate, without committing to anything concrete. The whole thing is carefully worded to mean almost nothing in the way of real commitment.

168 posted on 02/03/2008 4:30:33 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (God wants a Liberal or RINO hanging from every tree. Tar & feathers optional extras.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

So you admit that Huckabee is a RINO as well?


169 posted on 02/03/2008 4:31:44 PM PST by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: RetiredArmy

My Senator, Mr. Sessions, is about one of the hand full of republicans I still trust.
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You are lucky to have Sen Cute-as-a-Button

My Sen Alexander and Corker wanted to back the AMNESTY Bill last year

They were for it before they were agin it, y’all


170 posted on 02/03/2008 4:32:30 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: cradle of freedom; Tennessee Nana
You're going to have to source that out, freedom.

Juan Hernandez was hired by McCain.

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171 posted on 02/03/2008 4:33:15 PM PST by spectre (spectre's wife)
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To: cradle of freedom

He signed Jose’ Huckabee


172 posted on 02/03/2008 4:43:01 PM PST by We Dare Defend Our Rights
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To: Tennessee Nana

My other senator is a republican, Shelby, but he is also an ex-dimocrat. So, I still half way don’t trust the guy.


173 posted on 02/03/2008 4:43:24 PM PST by RetiredArmy (America wants socialism. It wants it all for free. It wants the government to provide all.)
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To: ApplegateRanch

You are so on the money!


174 posted on 02/03/2008 4:47:30 PM PST by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: spectre

It seems that you are right. It appears that it was McCain who hired Hernandez.
Huckabee opened up a Mexican embassy in Arkansas. Huckabee also made some deals between Arkansas businesses and Mexico.http://arkansasgopwing.blogspot.com/2008/01/could-mexico-cabinet-member-serve-as-us.html


175 posted on 02/03/2008 4:56:33 PM PST by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: RetiredArmy

Wasnt it Shelby who changed from Dem to Rep ????


176 posted on 02/03/2008 5:00:54 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: cradle of freedom

RINO Romney ordered the police to arrest illegal aliens anfd turn them into ICE just ONE MONTH before he left office

The next Gov rescindered the order

For the first FOUR YEARS of his term, RINO Romney never bothered to stop illegal immigration or the sanctuary cities in Mass


177 posted on 02/03/2008 5:05:05 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: chaos_5

This is *at least* as convincing as mitts pro life, pro second amendment stances..


178 posted on 02/03/2008 5:07:31 PM PST by N3WBI3 (Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
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To: Tennessee Nana

So is Huckabee your guy? Huckabee has made all the familiar mewling noises to gain the Hispanic (Mexican) vote. What do you think of the joke that Huckabee made before LULAC when he said that someday people that looked like him (White guys) would be a minority. This is very disturbing to me. What do you think of this comment?


179 posted on 02/03/2008 5:24:08 PM PST by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: RetiredArmy

Yep, Senator Sessions fought the battle with the rest of us. He WAS a leader. Put his money where his mouth is.

Would be better than anyone out there at this time as a candidate fot POTUS!


180 posted on 02/03/2008 5:29:00 PM PST by dforest (Don't even ask me to vote for McCain, Rudy, or Huckster.)
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