Mike Huckabee’s open borders record
Robert Novak and other Beltway Republicans have found a lot not to like about Mike Huckabee. Glaringly, Novak has nothing to say about Huckabee’s unrepentant open-borders record:
For shamnesty.
For recycling McCain-esque insults of American workers.
For pandering to identity politics.
And not only for government in-state illegal alien tuition discounts, but for expanding them beyond what the federal DREAM Act proposed. Here’s the vid of his remarks supporting the scheme via the Arkansas Journal:
Sigh.
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Here’s a good question for Huckabee about his special deal with the Mexican consulate in Arkansas.
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He just lost my vote. Damn I was starting to warm to the guy too
Shamnesty is a TOTAL guaranteed loser for any candidate from either party unless it’s a local election with a high percentage of Hispanic voters…legal or otherwise.
The American people spoke loud and clear and I can’t figure out why politicians are so friggin blind about this.
They can run but they can’t hide about not being hard core against illegal immigration. The candidate who has the record on this issue and makes it the center piece of his or her campaign will WIN! Notice I said has the record to back it up.
Like John Ansell, I was starting to warm to Huckabee till I heard about his views on immigration, legal or illegal.
Now he’s just another RINO who would happily sellout American citizens and their jobs in exchange for political points with the Washington establishment.
question: are you going to back Tancredo’s legislation to stop federal funding of sanctuary cities/states? nuf said there..
i have ‘evangelical’ friends that are warming to Huckabee, I tell them, he and I part company on immigration. They know people that know him ‘personally’ and he is so Godly. They agree with me on immigration, they are shocked, just shocked to find out where he is on this issue. Huckabee’s friends don’t seem to mention this.. hmmmmmmmm..
None of the republicans look good. I think it looks better for billiary everyday.
Pols on illegal immigration are like the NYT on the way
people in this country feel about illegal immigration..
they say that the polls in this country show that at
least 75% of the people in this country are for amnesty
and special programs for illegals. Apparently the libs
and their MSM do not live in the same country that I
live in. Even a lot of legals that I know are against
illegals and their access to “entitlements.”
I don’t see a candidate, even HRC winning without
taking a stand on this issue.
I wonder why it’s so hard to respect the law if you’re a politician….
No Huckabee. He’s an open-borders nut, just like Bush. Huckabee doesn’t even have a Hispanic nephew that he would like to see elected to high office one day. As the Bush family likes to joke, “the P in George P. Bush stands for Presidente!”
And let’s not forget Huckabee’s “Willie Horton”, the Dumond case. He commuted the life sentence of a man who brutally raped a 17 year old girl.
Right after he was elected governor, Huckabee believed Dumond’s sentence of life was too harsh for the crime. Despite the pleas of the victim and her warning that Dumond would hurt someone else if released, Huckabee commuted Dumond’s sentence.
Shortly after his release, Dumond went on to sexually assault and murder a woman in Missouri.
The Dumond case reveals a lot about Huckabee. Not tough on crime. Arrogant eoungh to believe he knows more than a jury who heard the case. Dismissive of victim’s rights and feelings.
Huckabee is responsible for the murder of the woman in Missouri. Had it not been for his intervention, she would still be alive today.
Not the kind of judgment we need in a Presidential candidate, let alone a President.
First it was questions about his record on taxes and now issues with his stance on immigration. That is what happens when you rise in the polls folks. I would rather find this out now, especially since I too was warming to Huckabee. This might do him in. I am still holding on to a glimmer of hope for Thompson. I don’t want to have to choose between different New Englanders, really New Yorkers for president.
Can you imagine if your only choices were Guilliani, Clinton, Bloomberg (if he gets in)?
/The South might have to bring up that whole secesion question again.
After watching that I just want to vomit.
I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch and filled it with seed.. Within a week we had hundreds of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food.
But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the table, and next to the barbecue.
Then came the poop. It was everywhere: on the patio tile, the chairs, the table…everywhere.
Then some of the birds turned mean. They would dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket. And others birds were boisterous and loud: They sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed at all hours of the day and night and demanded that I fill it when it got low on food. After a while, I couldn’t even sit on my own back porch anymore.
I took down the bird feeder and in three days the birds were gone. I cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they had built all over the patio. Soon, the back yard was like it used to be…quite, serene and no one demanding their rights to a free meal.
Now lets see…our government gives out free food, subsidized housing, free medical care, free education and allows anyone born here to be a automatic citizen.
Then the illegals came by the tens of thousands. Suddenly our taxes went up to pay for free services. Small apartments are housing 5 families. You have to wait 6 hours to be seen by an emergency room doctor. Your child’s 2nd grade class is behind other schools because over half the class doesn’t speak English. Corn Flakes now come in a bilingual box. I have to press “one” to hear my bank talk to me in English, and people waving flags other than “Old Glory” are squawking and screaming in the streets, demanding more rights and free liberties.
Maybe it’s time for the government to take down the bird feeder.
Paul R. Gellentien
Huckabee, Romney, McCain and Giuliani are all compromised when it comes to pandering to illegal invaders. One of several reasons I was amazed Huckabee was shooting to the front in Iowa. Doesn’t anyone look at these candidates past record? The front runners the MSM are pushing are gun grabbing, pro-invader, large Government RINOs that will sell us out to special interest and/or the Democrats in a New York minute.
Where have you people been? Huckabees record has been out there since this thing started, I’m glad your finally waking up.
Mike Huckabee presents clear, coherent plans on all the key issues. I don’t agree with everything he stands for, but at least I know where he stands.
Why is his stance on immigration so terrible, when Rudy’s making NYC a sanctuary….no wait, it’s “immigrant friendly” isn’t it?…city ok? What happened to hate the sin, love the sinner? And since when do we punish the children for the crimes of the father?
Don’t get me wrong. My heart says it would be wonderful to round up and deport all of the illegal immigrants. But do any of us think the government could pull that off when it can’t even find them? Instead of dreaming and wishing, we need a plan to account for the illegals, stem the flow, and assimilate the citizen children of illegals.
On a side note, Bob Novak wrote in his column, “The rise of evangelical Christians as the motive force that blasted the GOP out of minority status during the past generation always contained an inherent danger if these new Republican acolytes supported not merely a conventional conservative but one of their own.”
Does anyone but me wonder just what exactly he meant by that?
Glad this is getting more attention. Huckabee has been abysmally bad on this issue, and I don’t believe that he has any intention of following through on his recent conversion to a security first position.
#10
That is an extremely good analogy of the situation that really puts the issue in a simple idiot proof light. What’s scary is how accurate it is when applied to the human equivalent we are facing.
Seriously, let’s just stipulate:
No more Male Cheerleaders.
No more candidates from Hope, Arkansas.
I mean, C’mon.
Kudos to you, Paul G!
I had started to give this guy a more serious look. He started rising in the polls. His opponents (many Republicans from his home state) talk about his record non-favorably. I believe the next thing we see is the steady fall back to also-ran shortly.
The lame stream media have already chosen their candidates which is why I don’t buy of any of this crap. The idea that only either Guiliani or Romney are the only viable choices is near-criminal.
The political class of both parties no longer honors the concept of service to the people. Their idea is to gain and hold power. Many are arrogant in wieldingpower and their view of the citizenry is that most people are too stupid to elect good leadership. Far too many of these politicians haven’t a clue about the real concerns of the American people and it shows constantly in the positions they take. Huckabee is no better or no worse than most of the other presidential candidates, and I fear that it is going to take something truly horrendous to change the current special interest group dynamics first invented by FDR.
It seems hopeless. How can you fight this kind of commitment:
Ditto. The MSM had me almost convinced that Huckabee was the only real conservative running. Then I saw a clip on YouTube showing him as Governor actually begging the Arkansas legislature to raise taxes. That was stike one. Now, I read here about his stance on illegal immigration (strike two) and how he released a convicted violent rapist so he could graduate to murder (strike three.) The only thing conservative about him is his stance on abortion. Sorry Governor, you don’t get 4 strikes: YOU’RE OUTTA HERE.
Huck still has my vote. Hes by far the best of them all.
LGF, has Fred’s Immigration plan if you havent seen it yet.
freds img/plan
If Hillary wasn’t running I would not vote for ANY of the RINO’s running and settle for 8 years of bad government but she scares me enough to vote for one of these RINO’s.
So Sad.
Well, that’s just dandy.
I guess voting for a GOP candidate will be like choosing between an enema or a laxative.
The parents had almost 18 yrs to figure out their illegal status could limit their son’s future opportunities and did nothing about it? Sorry, I don’t want to pay for that. We are a nation of laws, Mr. Huckabee. You’re toast.
No, he is the worst, because he is playing on the ‘religious right card’ to get him elected. He is playing them. The majority of the ‘religious right’ are anti-illegal and anti-amnesty. He is just another ’slick’ Arkansas Governor; and I for one do not want to see another one as President.
If there was anything worse than a RINO, well that is a Demoncrap, Huckabee sure smells like one of those two, not a real conservative.
Just lost my vote.
No way, Jose !
Wow. So the lady on the bus with me really was right. I am in the center. Go figure.
I was going to support Huckabee, but lately I’ve seen nothing about the man that qualifies him to be anything other than a Democrat.
To be honest with you all, there’s very little about this bunch of Republican candidates that excites me. I may just either vote for a third party candidate, or simply stay home on Election Day, 2008. I’m sick of the pragmatism of choosing the better-of-two-evils. I’m beginning to think that the Republican Party needs to go the way of the Whigs, and a new conservative party needs to eclipse it.
I lived in Mexico for several years as a teenager… I guess you could say that I lived my “formative years” there, whatever that is supposed to mean. I can tell you this, as a white man that has been there… Most people in Mexico love their country as much as we love ours. They do not want to leave, even though wages are low and they have no welfare state to speak of. But, having lived in a border town (Nuevo Laredo), just a short walk from the river, I can testify to exactly what type of immigrant is fleeing their “beloved” homeland, the land whose flag they love to wave in our faces once they arrive in OUR beloved homeland. The illegal immigrants that flee Mexico are the ones that can not or will not get with the program in their own country. They are just like the union-labor force here in the USA: they want more for less. I actually met quite a few of these people, as they patrol neighborhoods in border towns looking for handouts, day labor, or something to steal, whichever comes easiest. Hard thing to say, in this politically correct land of ours, but the fact of the matter is, they have no respect for our borders, our cultures, our laws, or anything else. All they want is to carve a place for themselves in our cities and recreate Mexico HERE in the USA. They are law breakers, plain and simple. Lets not sugar coat it any longer. Time to start treating them as the lawbreakers that they are, and arresting them and deporting them. Does anybody have any idea what would happen if you tried to do a “citizens arrest” on an illegal alien? I challenge you to figure that one out. It would probably result in “unlawful detainment” charges, and if you force the immigrant to move more than three feet, in Texas, you will get a Kidnapping charge as well… Anyhoo… Hers a good question…
Why is it that people flee “oppression” that they themselves or people like them have caused, only to try to recreate that same environment in their host country?
As an aside, we may have it bad here, but at leat our illegal immigrants are mostly Catholic, rather than Muslims, such as those that are infesting the homelands of our European “allies”.
Hackabee=open borders
Fred! = To weak
McCain=open borders
Mitt =unelectable
Rudy= cronyism
Ron Paul=nuts
I believe Rudy will get the Nomination, but loose to Hillary because, she’ll dig up all the crony skeletons out of his closet. Rudy will get the Nomination because some conservatives favor him because they think America wants a middle of the road guy. They base this conclusion on the last House and Senate election. They are wrong! The conservative Nominee needs to run on the War on Terror, and immigration policy. All our guys are weak on this. Sad.
Duncan Hunter!
He and others like him…Open Borders loons,…
Do NOT love their country…..It is that simple!
Huckabee, the Jimmy Carter of the Republican party. I’m sure a decent enough guy in his private life, all forgiving and all that. But Gawd help this country if he is ever given the reins of power.
I like Hunter too, but he is simply too unknown for the rest of the country at this point. Really he is campaigning for the 2012/2016 nomination when he will be more of a household name.
GorillaFaceJose says Fred is too weak??
LMAO!! What a maroon. And Rudolph couldn’t catch a cold let alone the nomination;
There are 80 Million gun owners and many more that believe the Second Amendment is an inalienable right that keeps all the other rights safe…Rudolph wanted to end all that with this;
Archives of the Mayor’s Press Office on June 20th, 2000
Mayor Giuliani and Speaker Vallone Announce City Lawsuit Against Gun Industry.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/html/2000a/pr238-00.html
“Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and City Council Speaker Peter F. Vallone, joined by Corporation Counsel Michael Hess, today announced that the City of New York has filed a lawsuit against two dozen major gun manufacturers and distributors.”
Archives of The Mayor’s Weekly Column
Archives of Rudolph W. Giuliani
June 26, 2000
http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/rwg/html/2000a/weekly/wkly0626.html
“It is our hope that this suit will result in substantial financial awards to the City…”
Romney has taken the strongest position against illegal immigration, by far. He was outspoken in his opposition against the amnesty bill earlier this year. And, his record when he served as Governor is solid.
For all the pro-Rudy naysayers out there, Romney is currently polling #1 or #2 in EVERY early primary state, including Michigan, Florida, and South Carolina.
Note to all true conservatives: it’s time to take a second look at Gov. Mitt Romney.
Michelle, I’m so dissapointed in this unfair hit piece. I, admittedly, am a big Huckabee supporter and grassroots activist at Huck’s Army. We spend a lot of time informing people of the truth about Huckabee’s immigration record and you’ve sadly began playing a big part in misrepresenting his views. You cite links to other news/commentary sites as facts about Huckabee’s record and even use ArkJournal as a video source–the same publication which posted the “Huckabee Begs for Tax Increase” video which was taken completely out of context. I am just so dissapointed because I’ve always looked up to you and how you see thru the crap straight to the facts. This time you just don’t seem to be getting there. There is a lot to legitimately disagree with Huckabee on–but dishonest “facts” about his record are not some of them. I hope people take the time to get the truth for themselves. As much as I respect you and your views, you’re just flat wrong here.
- Video of Huckabee on Illegal Immigration
- Video of Hickabee on His Arkansas Tax Record
- Original Text of Arkansas Scholarship Bill (PDF)
Thanks for allowing me to respond.
Michelle! What’s the deal! I can add you to the list of “Republicans attacking Republicans.” If you are hoping to help Hillary by damaging fellow Republican’s reputations than you have succeeded.
Stop taking notes from the Democrats play book and lies!
The Governor opposes and will never allow amnesty. Facts.
Who you voting for Michelle, Rudy McRomney?
Fred Dalton Thompson is by far an away the strongest on illegal immigration and he has it in writing;
Border Security and Immigration Reform Plan
http://www.fred08.com/virtual/Immigration.aspx
AND before that;
Southern Exposure 3/07
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NjhkYzZiNTAxZjAyZTNjNzkxNjA2ZTNmNDBhNjhlYWU=
Huckabee deserves a good look over on his record vs his intentions.
I’ll give him the benefit of doubt because I can accept that sometimes distasteful things have to be done at a state level due to Federal intransience or decades of donk negligence.
But he had better well make the case why it’s not conservatively right and why it’s wrong at the Fed level. And that he WILL be forcibly and commitedly conservative as POTUS. And spare me the “compassionate conservatism” load of bull that Bush sold us.
But Lord help us and a pox on Mike if he turns out to be the reincarnation of Jimmah Cartah.
# 11 excellent post-analogy
I think Chuck Norris need to reconsider and punch him.
He’ll have to grovel before making any progress with me now. I was beginning to think he might be my replacement for a wilting Fred.
Good leaders change their minds when given new facts. Let us hope that someone running for office actually turns into a President-worth-electing soon, but how many facts will it take?
I often wonder what members of Congress and our governors are reading in their spare time in order to avoid dealing with tough issues and actually finding solutions palatable to the American people — the funny papers, Letters to Penthouse, what?
I’ll say it again. Look at Duncan Hunter. His record speaks for itself.
I just don’t know why he doesn’t have more support. Boggles the mind. Really.
.. the same reason Tom Tancredo, a patriotic statesman, did not get support from the very Americans he works for. Go figure……..
No matter how good a candidate is on other issues, illegal-immigration is the litmus test. Any candidate who is loose on illegal-immigration, is a sell-out politician, willing to put American security at risk. It is that simple. As for Huckabee, shame on Arkansas for supporting this traitor. Then again, Arkansas supported slick willy.
That theory is the wrong answrer. Bush was the best of them all, and look what has happened to America. Ofcourse, Bush was slick enough to hide his shamnesty agenda, but the same could be with any candidate. Giving a candidate a benefit of comparison is a recipe for disaster.
I still miss Tom Tancredo. I doubt Duncan comes anywhere close to Tom.