Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Illegal Immigration: Huckabee Caught Lying, Again...

I've been saying this for months. Now, The Washington Times is covering the fact that Mike Huckabee has been lying about his record dealing with illegal aliens.

He's been claiming that he had the Arkansas State Police enforce immigration laws as part of the federal 287(g) program.

As I pointed out a long time ago. He signed a bill to do that, very begrudgingly, but then prevented the state police from becoming part of the program.

Again we see State Senator Gilbert Baker shilling for Huckabee. In an attempt to deceive people into thinking Mike Huckabee's record is that of a conservative, Gilbert and former State Representative Doug Matayo have been gallavanting around the country distorting the truth. Gilbert intentionally misrepresented the truth on this subject, bragging that Huckabee had signed the 287(g) bill. He left off that Huck had done so very unenthusiastically. Gilbert couldn't mischaracterize Huckabee's follow through, though. Huckabee prevented his state police director, Steve Dozier, from negotiating an agreement with Homeland Security to make it happen.

Nowadays, if you read Huck's website, you'll see that he takes credit for something that never happened. "As governor, I ordered my state troopers to work with the Department of Homeland Security to arrest illegals and enforce federal immigration law."

He did not do that.

Now that's the lie has been put to that statement, he's claiming that he didn't have time to get the program up and running. He had 2 years and he didn't do ANYTHING. I'd say he's right. If you never start a project, you'll never have enough time to finish it.

But, again, Huckabee is lying. He's claiming that it was a lack of time and not interest that kept it from happening. 2 years is half the term of a governor. Until Bill Clinton, 2 years was the entire term of Arkansas governors. How could he possibly claim that 2 years isn't enough time?

One more time, we're seeing Mike Huckabee not only as the liberal that he was when he was in office, but we also see him lying about his record. Unfortunately, we also have Republicans from Arkansas who are willing to dispense with their integrity to distort Huckabee's record. Gilbert Baker more than anybody ought to be ashamed of himself. He's showing himself to be a political shill more than the man of character he makes himself out to be. He knows that Mike Huckabee didn't want the 287(g) program to go into effect, but he isn't honest enough to say it. Instead, he's spinning the issue to look like Huckabee was the primary force behind it, rather than the unwilling participant who eventually killed it.

There's so much more I could say about this, but I can't right now. It's not because of a lack of interest, but a lack of time...

Here's the link to the WT story: http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbc ... 09668/1001

http://209.85.175.104/search?q=cache:ug ... abee+287(g)&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us