[freespirited]

IMHO, Huckabee's position on illegal immigration seems to me to be more or less the same as all of the other leading Republican candidates, at least based on what I've read on their websites

Then the website has rewritten history. Some background for you:

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http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/12/6/110901.shtml

Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Wednesday the nation is being given a chance to make up for past racism by the way it handles the influx of Hispanics.

Huckabee, a Republican who is considering a run for president in 2008, said Arkansas has made progress on racial justice and has a fresh opportunity to do the right thing in the way it welcomes the growing Hispanic population.

"One of the great challenges facing us is that we do not commit the same mistakes with our growing Hispanic population that we did with African Americans 150 years ago and beyond. We're still paying the price for the pathetic manner in which this country handled that," Huckabee said at a meeting of the Political Animals Club in Little Rock. The club meets monthly to hear from political figures and experts.

"I think frankly the Lord is giving us a second chance to do better than we did before," Huckabee said.

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See also:

Huckabee on Illegals-1

Huckabee on Illegals-2

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"Immigration-control activists announced a bill to crack down on benefits available to illegal aliens in Arkansas, the first in what is expected to be a wave of initiatives and bills following the success of a similar proposition in Arizona in November's election."

Do you happen to know what the provisions were of the Arkansas bill in question? For example, were they provisions to penalize the children of parents here illegally?