Huckabee Puts Forth “Secure America” Immigration Plan
It is based on the Mark Krikorian Model.
Check it out:
1. Build the Fence
Ensure that an interlocking surveillance camera system is installed along the border by July 1, 2010.
Ensure that the border fence construction is completed by July 1, 2010.
2. Increase Border Patrol
Increase the number of border patrol agents.
Fully support all law enforcement personnel tasked with enforcing immigration law.
3. Prevent Amnesty
Policies that promote or tolerate amnesty will be rejected.
Propose to provide all illegal immigrants a 120-day window to register with the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services and leave the country. Those who register and return to their home country will face no penalty if they later apply to immigrate or visit; those who do not return home will be, when caught, barred from future reentry for a period of 10 years.
4. Enforce the Law on Employers
Employment is the chief draw for most illegal immigrants and denying them jobs is the centerpiece of an attrition strategy.
Impose steep fines and penalties on employers that violate the law.
Institute a universal, mandatory citizenship verification system as part of the normal hiring process.
Prevent the IRS and the Social Security Administration from accepting fraudulent Social Security numbers or numbers that don’t match the employees’ names.*
5. Establish an Economic Border
Move toward passage of the FairTax.
The FairTax provides an extra layer of security by creating an economic disincentive to immigrate to the U.S. illegally.
6. Empower Local Authorities
Promote better cooperation on enforcement by supporting legislative measures such as the CLEAR Act, which aims to systematize the relationship between local law and federal immigration officials.
Encourage immigration-law training for police. Local authorities must be provided the tools, training, and funding they need so local police can turn illegal immigrants over to the federal authorities.
7. Ensure Document Security
End exemptions for Mexicans and Canadians to the US-VISIT program, which tracks the arrival and departure of foreign visitors. Since these countries account for the vast majority of foreigners coming here (85 percent), such a policy clearly violates Congress’ intent in mandating this check-in/check-out system.
Reject Mexico’s “matricula consular” card, which functions as an illegal-immigrant identification card.
8. Discourage Dual Citizenship
Inform foreign governments when their former citizens become naturalized U.S. citizens.
Impose civil and/or criminal penalties on American citizens who illegitimately use their dual status (e.g., using a foreign passport, voting in elections in both a foreign country and the U.S.).
9. Modernize the Process of Legal Immigration
Eliminate the visa lottery system and the admission category for adult brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens.
Increase visas for highly-skilled and highly-educated applicants.
Expedite processing for those who serve honorably in the U.S. Armed Forces.
Improve our immigration process so that those patiently and responsibly seeking to come here legally will not have to wait decades to share in the American dream. Governor Huckabee has always been grateful to live in a country that people are trying to break into, rather than break out of.
*This policy will be drafted to comply with the final federal court decisions on this issue.
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How many “road to Damascus” conversions is this guy gonna have?
December 6th, 2007 at 1:31 pmNext thing you know he’s gonna support keeping rapists and murderers in jail!!
I will have to read the text after I cool down from looking at the picutre.. FUCKING PUKES!
December 6th, 2007 at 1:50 pmhttp://teamtancredo.org/
I know Tancredo doesn’t have a chance, but I am just sayin . . .
All the above is good, but in the CNN You Tube debate, he said that children/college kids should not be punished regarding their illegal immigration status - in fact they should be given scholarships . . . He says nothing about anchor baby issue above . . . He supported President Bush’s amnesty bill. Look, we are in so much chaos (especially here and his words above - granted they are a change in his position - don’t make me feel any safer. I am not buying it . . .
“He was an absolute disaster on immigration as governor,” said Roy Beck, president of NumbersUSA, a group that played a major role in rallying the phone calls that helped defeat this year’s Senate immigration bill. “Every time there was any enforcement in his state, he took the side of the illegal aliens.”
December 6th, 2007 at 1:52 pmIt would be nice if he had tried to implement these ideas in Arkansas. I don’t need a Preacher-in-Chief or and Athiest-in-Chief I need a real leader and Huckabee isn’t it.
How hard can it be to run or scam Arkansas? See Bill and Hillary Clinton.
December 6th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
I posted . . . where did it go?
December 6th, 2007 at 2:00 pmHey Bash - Why am I getting “comment errors” -
December 6th, 2007 at 2:09 pmI don’t trust Huckabee to be tough on illegal immigration. Not a bit. This isn’t his record, and he’s really not much more than a pro-life democrat. We need someone who has always been consistent, and has had a clearly-stated position. That guy would either be Tancredo or Thompson.
December 6th, 2007 at 4:31 pmHmmm… Doesn’t say anything about removing the Mexican consulate from Arkansas, either.
December 6th, 2007 at 6:52 pmBuild the fence by 2010 - The fence should have already been built. Kay Bailey Hutchison put forth an amendment that made it where Homeland Insecurity has the say on whether, where, what, when the fence is build - that is why the delay. She is a Texas Republican who can’t be trusted and obviously Michael Chertoff can’t be trusted.
We need to stop anchor babies . . . We should not give scholarships to illegal alliens (he said in the CNN U-Toob Debate he was for that) . . .
Huckabee supported President Bush in the Shamnesty Act of 2007, so he wrote all of the above just to get our votes. He will be like Texas Governor Rick Perry and absolutely just change his mind after the election - I don’t trust Huckabee . . .
Wish Duncan Hunter was in the “hunt” . . . The polls are being manipulated . . . mark my word!
http://teamtancredo.org/
December 6th, 2007 at 7:26 pmBuild the fence by 2010 ????? - The fence should have already been built. Kay Bailey Hutchison put forth an amendment that made it where Homeland Insecurity has the say on whether, where, what, when the fence is build - that is why the delay. She is a Texas Republican who can’t be trusted and obviously Michael Chertoff can’t be trusted.
We need to stop anchor babies . . . We should not give scholarships to illegal alliens (he said in the CNN U-Toob Debate he was for that) . . .
Huckabee supported President Bush in the Shamnesty Act of 2007, so he wrote all of the above just to get our votes. He will be like Texas Governor Rick Perry and absolutely just change his mind after the election - I don’t trust Huckabee . . .
Wish Duncan Hunter was in the “hunt” . . . The polls are being manipulated . . . mark my word!
http://teamtancredo.org/
December 6th, 2007 at 7:33 pmHuck had better be careful on this one and think it out.
A lot at stake.
Look around. This county alone has an educational system (in theory) that is one of the best in the world (again in theory) and this is still a Jerry Springer society.
Now picture Mexico for a second. For the most part a country of poverty, and sad to say, easy to sway. A few fast talking Islam-o-nuts, next thing you know, they are using the same tunnels as the millions of illegals in this country!!!!
Huck, ease into this. They really only want what we already have….. FREEDOM! Maybe we should focus on Mexico next and give them a REAL chance.
God Bless our troops and keep them safe.
December 6th, 2007 at 8:49 pmPS, say it like it really is Cheney
Boom - Might I gently disagree with you - “They only want what we already have - FREEDOM”
Maybe some . . . Many/Most also want free food stamps, free WIC, free housing, free education, free healthcare . . . and a couple wanted free loot from Joe Horn’s neighbor, but I guess that didn’t work out for them.
The sad thing is that Huck has always been willing to give them all of that free stuff on the taxpayers back . . . and President Bush has been Mexico free government funding from the beginning . . .
just sayin’ . . . I would prefer to vote for someone who is concerned about our citizens for a change.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:51 pm@LMcG:
However, we are getting the best and brightest of Europe, as they flee the cesspit it’s becoming. The scum there are still draining the life out of Europe’s economy. Once it collapses, they’ll be trying to cross the Atlantic. Hopefully they’ll all drown.
Shame the Rio Grande is so shallow…
December 7th, 2007 at 12:09 amticticboom - Agree . . . you know there is “water” all the way around Texas . . . we just need to break open the dams
December 7th, 2007 at 5:58 am“However, we are getting the best and brightest of Europe, as they flee the cesspit it’s becoming. The scum there are still draining the life out of Europe’s economy. Once it collapses, they’ll be trying to cross the Atlantic. Hopefully they’ll all drown.”
keep it on dreams, chowchow, no ways our people want to integrate a paranoïd society ;
and now that your money is low, I bet those who were searching adventure in the bright spaces of yours, will think of their return ; the only adventage you’v got over there, it’the the open field to make a first work experience, once people got it , it’s not anymore a problem for them to find a job back in their nations.
December 7th, 2007 at 7:54 am