Presidential Candidates views on illegal immigration

Immigration and Amnesty

With the presidential primary elections right around the corner, nothing could be more important than being educated about the positions of the Presidential Candidates on the issues. Immigration policy is one of the hottest issues this cycle, so below are links to all of the GOP Candidates’ immigration policy pages so you can be more informed about where they stand on the issues.

Leaders Rebuke Minuteman’s Endorsement of Mike Huckabee for President

December 17, 2007

Contact: Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), (866) 329-3999, press@alipac.us

The immigration enforcement movement, which is made up of hundreds of organizations, was stunned to hear of Minuteman Co-Founder, Jim Gilchrist’s, endorsement of pro-amnesty Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and over 80 organization leaders have signed a letter rebuking him for the endorsement.

The letter, found at ALIPAC.us, also rebukes Mike Huckabee’s deplorable record in favor of amnesty for illegal aliens, supporting in-state tuition for illegal aliens, and his verbal attacks on Americans who support enforcement of immigration laws. Signatures include those of the Executive Board of Minuteman Project and the Co-Founder of the Minutemen, Chris Simcox, as well as many independent Minuteman groups.

Copy of Letter and List of 80 Organizations Signed
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-94112.html

While Huckabee has released a 9 point immigration plan which appears to be strong on enforcement, the plan lies when it claims that illegal aliens would be given 120 days to leave the US and get in line. His plan imitates the pro-enforcement positions of Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, but in truth, Huckabee intends for illegal aliens to leave for a day and then return legally.

Huckabee’s true intentions to provide illegal aliens with a ‘touch back’ amnesty is found in his interview with Fox News Sunday: “Choosing the President” which aired on Dec 9, 2007 where he states…

“Look, if we can get a credit card application done within hours, it shouldn’t take years to get a work permit to come here and pick lettuce… You do have a pathway to get back here legally that would take days, maybe weeks, not years.”

“Americans want illegal aliens to leave as the current law states they must,” says William Gheen of ALIPAC. “The problem with Mike Huckabee and Jim Gilcrhist is they are trying to trick Americans by not telling voters that the illegal aliens only leave for a day, if that, under the Huckabee Amnesty plan. We want to warn America about this trick!”

ALIPAC speculates that many illegal aliens would be allowed to go to their consulates inside the US, which legally qualify as foreign soil, to pick up their new paperwork under this plan.

Over 80 leaders are standing together to rebuke Mike Huckabee and Jim Gilchrist for perpetrating this deceptive amnesty plan on American voters. ALIPAC is considering commissioning a phone poll into 50,000 Republican households in Iowa to ask, “Do you support Mike Huckabee’s plan to have illegal aliens leave and walk back in legally within a day?”

Signed by 79 leaders of Immigration Enforcement Groups!

In reaction to Jim Gilchrist’s (Co-Founder of Minutemen) lone endorsement of pro-amnesty Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee:

We, the undersigned, state that our organizations stand against racism and Amnesty for illegal aliens. Instead, we stand for the enforcement of our existing immigration laws, the securing of America’s borders, and attrition enforcement.

We have dedicated our efforts to fighting illegal immigration and we are compelled to warn the American public about the immigration stance and record of Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee.

We denounce Jim Gilchrist’s solo endorsement of a pro-amnesty and Open Borders candidate for President. Mr. Gilchrist does NOT speak for us!

Mike Huckabee is pro-amnesty and favors a “path to citizenship” for illegal aliens currently in the US, which would require a lifting of the current penalties.

Mike Huckabee is against ICE raids and decried them in his home state, when illegal aliens were arrested at companies that financially support his campaigns.

Mike Huckabee supports benefits for illegal aliens such as taxpayer subsidized in-state tuition.

Governor Huckabee also favors a “touchback” provision, which we feel is a trick to confuse voters. He would have illegal aliens leave for a day, pick up new papers, and then reenter the US LEGALLY, which is not the back of the immigration line! He has stated that illegal aliens could leave and “You do have a pathway to get back here legally that would take days, maybe weeks, not years.”

Mike Huckabee supported Comprehensive Immigration Reform Amnesty that failed in the US Senate and was rejected by a large majority of Americans. He stated that those who opposed the legislation are “driven by racism or nativism.”

Mike Huckabee has distorted the goals of “attrition enforcement” and the positions of Mark Krikorian by adding visa expansions, expedited visas, and “touchback”, which would counteract enforcement measures.

In truth, Mike Huckabee’s stances on the illegal immigration issue are out of line with the vast majority of Americans.

SIGNED (Signatures are tentative based on revisions and review)

William Gheen
Americans for Legal Immigration PAC
http://www.alipac.us

Ron Woodard
NC Listen Border Project
www.nclisten.com

Peter Gadiel
9/11 Families for A Secure America
www.911fsa.org/

Dan Sheehy
Author of “Fighting Immigration Anarchy: American Patriots Battle to Save the Nation”
www.FightingImmigrationAnarchy.com

RUSSELL LANDRY
Citizens Against Illegal Aliens
groups.msn.com/CitizensAgainstIllegalAliens/

Danny Smith
American Freedom Riders
www.americanfreedomriders.com/

Wanda Piety
Save America Fund
www.saveamericafund.com

Brook Young
Immigration Watchdog
www.immigrationwatchdog.com

Andy Ramirez
Friends of the Border Patrol
www.friendsoftheborderpatrol.com

Sandra Beene
Co-founder TX Minutemen
www.txminuteman.org

Hal Washburn
MCDC Washington State
www.minutemanhq.com

Allen Taylor
Hoosiers for Secure Borders
www.hoosiersforsecureborders.com

Jack McDermott
Pennsylvanians Against Illegal Immigration

Joseph L. Ray
MCDC Chapter Leader
www.minutemanhq.com

Jeff Wilson
Report and Deport
www.reportanddeport.org

S. Byron Gassaway
Rescue Without Borders
www.rescuewithoutborders.org

Melissa Gardner
Let Freedom Ring America
www.lframerica.com

Michael Apple
Minutemen Civil Defense Corps.
California-North Bay Chapter
www.minutemanhq.com

Johnny Tex
Johnny Tex and the Texicans
www.johnnytex.com

Gianluca Zanna
Co-Founder Mohave County Minutemen
www.mohaveminutemen.com

Ruthie Hendrycks
Minnesotans Seeking Immigration Reform
www.mnsirproject.com

Steve Hampton
Protect Our Borders
www.protectourborder.net

Hayward Vickery Jr.
US Border Watch
www.usborderwatch.com

Michael Franks
Former Texas State Republican Executive Committee Member.
Former Political Director, Texas Republican Liberty Caucu

Teela Roche & Mark Thies
South Carolinians for Immigration Moderation

Margaretann Bianculli
Greater Farmingville Citizens’ Association

Bill Strong
CHOICE
www.choice.flashbit.us

Jon Healy
TechnoPatriots
www.technopatriots.com

Wally McCormick
Utah Minuteman

Phyllis Sears
Citizens Council on Illegal Immigration
www.cciiwc.com

Barb Coe
California Coalition for Immigration Reform
www.ccir.net

Daniel Smeriglio & Andrew Woodring
Voice of the people U.S.A
www.voiceofthepeopleusa.com

Bob Cox
www.patriotsborderalliance.com
Patriots Border Alliance

Steve Salvi
Ohio Jobs & Justice PAC
www.ojjpac.org

Bob Baker & Leon Donahue
Washingtonians For Immigration Reform
www.wfir.org

Michael A. Jackson
Government for the People
www.votemj.com

Tony Dolz
U.S. Congressional Candidate (California 30th District)
MCDC California
www.dolz.com

Carl Braun
State Leader MCDC- CA

Dan Amato
Digger’s Realm
www.diggersrealm.com

Jeff Schwilk
San Diego Minutemen
www.SanDiegoMinutemen.com

Joe Turner & Chelene Nightingale
Save Our State
www.saveourstate.org

Conner Collier
V.P. of U.S. Border Watch
www.usborderwatch.com

Joe & Barb McCutchen
Arkansas Freedom
www.arkansasfreedom.com

A. B. Flanagan, III
KeepItAmerican.Biz
www.keepitamerican.biz

Jan Herron, Columnist
Magic City Morning Star

Robert M. Copley Sr.
Colorado Minutemen
www.sovereigntycolorado.com

Burr Deitz
New York Constitution Party
www.nyconstitutionparty.com

Paul Streitz
CT Citizens for Immigration Control
www.ctcic.net

Janie McCormick
Constitution Coalition

Saul Lisauskas
Stopp SPP & NAU
www.StopSPP.org

Frosty Wooldridge
Author & Paul Revere Riders
www.frostywooldridge.com

Kathy McKee, founder/chairman
Protect Arizona NOW
www.pan2004.com

Lupe Moreno
Latino Americans for Immigration Reform (LAIR)
www.latinoamericans.org

Ted Hayes
Los Angeles Activist
www.tedhayes.net

Nedd Kareiva
Stop the ACLU Coalition
www.stoptheaclu.org

Peter B. Gemma
columnist, Middle American News
www.manews.org

Paul & Jo Separk
The MidNight Writers
http://groups.myspace.com/saynotothenau

Frank Jorge
Antelope Valley Independent Minutemen
www.avimm.com

Ron Bass
United Patriots of America
www.UnitedPatriotsOfAmerica.com

Michael Kelley
NC Voice
www.ncvoice.info

Duane Smith
Nevada Action Coalition
www.nvaction.com

Mark Edwards
Founder of Unite to Fight 1 & 2 and Wake Up America
www.thewakeupamerica.com

Scott DiBenedetto
Pahrump Minutemen
www.pahrumpminutemen.com

Theresa Harmon
Tennesseans for Responsible Immigration Policies
www.TnRIP.org

Susan Smith
Nebraskans Advisory Group
www.nebraskansadvisorygroup.com

Jim Ludwick
Oregonians for Immigration Reform
http://www.oregonir.org

Robert R. Galbreath Jr.
Citizens for a Constitutional Republic
www.citizensforaconstitutionalrepublic.com

George Gush
Boycott State Farm Insurance
www.boycottstatefarminsurance.com

Jim Palmer
Buy Direct USA
www.buydirectusa.com

Chris Davis
America in Danger
www.americaindanger.com

Michael Williams
Border Hawks
BorderHawks.org

Chris Simcox
Minuteman Civil Defense Corps
Co-Founder of the Minutemen
www.minutemanhq.com

Walter Adams
PA Minutemen State Director
www.paminutemen.com

Joseph Ureneck
Massachusetts Citizens for Immigration Reform

Mike Vanderboegh
Alabama Minuteman Project

Dennis Murphy
Nebraska Minuteman Civil Defense Corp
www.nebraskaminuteman.com

Marvin Steward & Deborah Courtney
Minuteman Project Inc

Michael Strauss & John Loucome
LaPorte County Illegal Immigration Taskforce

Edward & Cynthia Kolb
Desert Visions
www.desertvisions.us

Mike Huckabee’s Shamnesty for Illegal Aliens!

by William Gheen
President of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC
December 12, 2007

In August of 2005, I was called for an interview by THV-TV News out of Little Rock Arkansas to comment on Governor Mike Huckabee’s comments complaining about an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid on local chicken plants, which resulted in the arrest of 119 illegal aliens. What I said during the interview is even more relevant today “Governor Huckabee is known nationally as an illegal alien’s best friend!”

At the time, Mike Huckabee was known nationally for supporting in-state tuition for illegal aliens, which is massively opposed by American voters four to one! This plan forces American taxpayers to subsidize tuition for illegal aliens, thus replacing American students in the limited seats in colleges, while providing the wrong message and encouraging more people to illegally immigrate and bring their children into the U.S. to be trained for jobs, it is illegal for them to have! Read more…

Liberal Huckabee Says Immigration Enforcement ‘Sheer Folly’ Wants Amnesty

 Federal Level:

2006: Supported President Bush’s immigration plan and claimed that opposition to Bush’s proposal was driven by “racism or nativism” and that it wasn’t amnesty. (Ralph Hallow, “Huckabee ‘Serious’ About Presidency,” Washington Times, 5/17/06)

Wrote in his 2007 book that implementing strict enforcement of immigration laws “would be sheer folly” and that it made sense to give “those here illegally a process through which they pay a reasonable fine in admission of their guilt for the past infraction of violating our border laws and agree to adhere to a pathway toward legal status and citizenship.” (Mike Huckabee, From Hope to Higher Ground, 2007, p. 117-118)

In Arkansas:

As Governor, Huckabee fought for in-state tuition and taxpayer funded scholarships for illegal immigrants. He opposed legislation to require proof of citizenship in order to obtain public benefits and to vote. He vocally opposed a raid on a factory in Arkansas that employed illegal immigrants. And he led an effort to bring a Mexican Consulate to Arkansas – one of the main functions of the Consulate would be to issue identification cards to Mexicans living, both legally and illegally, in the U.S.

http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=5186