Huck: I tend to think that the rational approach is to find a way to give people a pathway to citizenship. You shouldn't ignore the law or ignore those who break it. But by the same token, I think it's a little disingenuous when I hear people say they should experience the full weight of the law in every respect with no pathway, because that's not something we practice in any other area of criminal justice in this country.
We have everything from plea bargainings to suspended sentences to probation to clemency. There's a whole gamut of ways in which there are lesser than the full penalties applied for a whole variety of reasons -- everything from jail overcrowding to non-violent offenses.
To think that we're going to go lock up 12 million people, or even round them up and drive them to the border and let them go, might make a great political speech, but IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. What should happen, however, is EXACTLY WHAT THE PRESIDENT HAS PROPOSED, and that is that we create a process where people make restitution for the fact they have broken the law.
It's not an amnesty, and I know that there are some who think that anything less than essentially grabbing them by the nape of the neck and tossing them over a fence, real or imaginary, is amnesty. But I think that's ridiculous. And whether it's Patrick Kennedy, Rush Limbaugh, or an illegal immigrant, there ought to be some rationality in how we apply our law. We do that every day.
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Besides on the tv talk show thread 8 days ago I documented that the true number of illegals is much closer to 38 million than 12.
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..when I think of Huck—LULAC comes to mind...
1. Learn English.
2. Volunteer for the US Army.
He sounds like a socialist to me.
Huckabee is often pretty impressive in debates. But, his Bush-like, pro-amnesty views immediately disqualify him from ever receiving my vote. It’s the one subject that sets me off like a rocket, and I’m bound and determined to NEVER give my vote again to anyone so dismissive of the border situation, even if they somehow manage to get the nomination. If that’s the case, it will be the 1st time in my entire voting life (25 years) that I’ll not be pulling the lever for the Republican. But, I’m 100% unyielding on this, no matter how many times the Hillary boogey-man card is played.
Of course, I totally agree with Huckabee’s response to that specific question.
In 2006 Huckabee was every bit the amnesty shill that Bush was and is.
I think that when you start digging, you find that Mitt is a smooth talking northerner, and Huck is a smooth talking southerner.
What they say means very little, what they promise the voters means nothing.
You forgot to add the Hunter disclaimer.
“To think that we’re going to go lock up 12 million people, or even round them up and drive them to the border and let them go, might make a great political speech, but IT’S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. What should happen, however, is EXACTLY WHAT THE PRESIDENT HAS PROPOSED, and that is that we create a process where people make restitution for the fact they have broken the law.”
Goodbye Huckabee..........................