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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
"Huckabee lost my vote when he called Arkansas Senate Bill 206, requiring proof of citizenship for voting, "inflammatory... race-baiting and demagoguery."

I googled Senate Bill 206, which you refer to. It appears that this bill would have made it a crime for a medical professional in Arkansas to provide life-saving care to an illegal immigrant who had been in an accident. If this is the case, then good for Governor Huckabee in opposing it!

IMHO, illegal immigration is a serious problem which must be dealt with. (Huckabee is strongly anti-illegal immigration, as shown by Post 6 above.)

Still, illegal immigrants are people and it would be inhuman of us to deny medical care to one of them who had been in an accident and was at risk of dying. So, I don't see your point.

I'll paste the information I found about Huckabee's opposition to this Arkansas senate bill below.

18 posted on 11/07/2007 5:41:43 AM PST by dano1
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To: dano1

>>It appears that this bill would have made it a crime for a medical professional in Arkansas to provide life-saving care to an illegal immigrant who had been in an accident. If this is the case, then good for Governor Huckabee in opposing it!<<

If that were a correct interpretation of the bill, then yes it would be a bad bill (but still would not justify Huckabee’s name-calling), but after I read the text, it did not appear to me that it would have prevented life saving emergency care.

You could argue that Huckabee believed that it would have denied such care, but I think Huckabee would also oppose the rest of the bill, including the voter ID provisions.


21 posted on 11/07/2007 5:58:17 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Illegals: representation without taxation--Citizens: taxation without representation)
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