Thread: Minuteman reconsiders Huckabee endorsement

Minuteman reconsiders Huckabee endorsement
Gilchrist discovers candidate favors giving status to illegals within days

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Posted: December 18, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern


By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com



Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee in the moments following the Values Voter Debate Sept. 17, 2007, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (WND photo)
Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist says he will have to reconsider his endorsement of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee after learning the Republican presidential candidate favors allowing illegal aliens to wait only days to receive documents allowing re-entry into the U.S.

In a Dec. 9 Fox News interview, just two days before Gilchrist's endorsement, Huckabee was questioned by host Chris Wallace about an apparent contradiction between statements last year that he preferred a pathway to citizenship and his current plan. On his campaign website, Huckabee outlines a proposal that would require illegal aliens to repatriate and get on the back of the line, which could mean years for re-entry into the United States.

Huckabee insisted there is no discrepancy, specifying that "the pathway to get back here legally doesn't take years. It would take days, maybe weeks, and then people could come back in the workforce."

Asked by WND to respond, Gilchrist backtracked, admitting he may have been mistaken in his initial assumptions about the repatriation provisions of Huckabee's "Secure America Plan."

"I'm going to have to follow up on this," Gilchrist said. "I had not seen before anything in Governor Huckabee's plan where repatriation and touch-back could involve only days, not years.

"I personally need to talk to Governor Huckabee about this," he added. "This issue needs to be between Governor Huckabee and me."


Huckabee's admission to Fox News directly contradicted a condition Gilchrist stated was a sine qua non of his endorsement.

As previously reported, Gilchrist told WND, "Nothing I can find in Huckabee's plan indicates he is going to let the illegal immigrants back into the country the next day after they go home.

"The illegal aliens, once they are back home, will have to stand in line with everybody else and apply for legal entry at the end of the line," Gilchrist insisted, representing what he thought was the Huckabee plan.

Gilchrist further stated at the time, "If, in fact, there is no standing in line and waiting for legal entry, I would have a serious reservation about endorsing Huckabee."

Despite the new information about Huckabee's plan, Gilchrist declined to withdraw immediately his endorsement.

"I need to get answers from Huckabee himself about this discrepancy," Gilchrist said. "I want a valid explanation and I want it published.

"Plus, I have some other questions too that you're not aware of that I have already queried Governor Huckabee's staff about yesterday and again this morning," he continued. "But it's going to take about 72 hours to get responses."

Gilchrist declined to specify the additional questions.

In the Fox News interview, Wallace asked Huckabee about the apparent inconsistency.

"Well, I don't think there's an inconsistency," Huckabee said. "When I said a pathway, I didn't say what the pathway was.

"I now believe that the only thing the American people are going to accept – and frankly, the only thing that really makes sense – is a pathway that sends people back to the starting point," Huckabee continued.

"But this idea of the waiting years – no, I don't agree with that," he stressed. "In fact, look, if we can get a credit card application done within hours, if we can get passports done within days, if we can transact business over the Internet any place in the world within seconds, do a background check instantaneously – it's our government that has failed and is dysfunctional."

Huckabee went on to say, "It shouldn't take years to get a work permit to come here and pick lettuce."

He further specified, "But the pathway to get back here legally doesn't take years. It would take days, maybe weeks, and then people could come back in the workforce."

That repatriation provisions in Huckabee's "Secure America Plan" apparently are supported by Point 9 of his plan, which calls for an increase in the number of visas available for highly skilled and highly educated applicants.


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"This issue needs to be between Governor Huckabee and me." -- Jim Gilchrist

This man's arrogance is costing our movement so dearly. Egomania is an understatement.

W

"This issue needs to be between Governor Huckabee and me."

Yea, sure it does and that issue betwee the two of you concerns every American that wants the immigration laws enforced.

Have you hugged a Huckster today?

Dixie

Heard the tail end of a talk on Roger Hedgecock's show tonight where he had Gilchrist on and it sounded like Jim was still behind Huckabee. Roger expressed afterwards how he wasn't buying Huckabee's talk due to his background regarding illegal immigration and sighted many of the same things William has.

Why wasn't Jim Gilchrist on Larry King tonight with Huckabee?

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln

"Well, I don't think there's an inconsistency," Huckabee said. "When I said a pathway, I didn't say what the pathway was.

Sounds like Clinton talking, or someone with something to hide. Yup, Hickabee is the CFR's new poster boy and what a boy he is!

I saw Huckabee on Larry King last night. When immigration came up, Huckabee talked about his 9-point plan and then said that he has the endorsement of the President of the Minutemen. He acted like that proved he was genuine about his plan. The funny thing was, beyond that, he really didn't say much more on illegal immigration. I don't trust that guy.

Huckabee's plan is the Pence plan. Giving ilelgal aliens a leg-up on paperwork so they can come right back in....of course that leaves the millions of people who have been waiting patiently (some for years) with their paperwork in progress out in the cold. How is that fair? Why would we give preference to Mexican anyway? If they were here illegally their wait time for processing shouldn't be any shorter than anyone else, to do otherwise would be to put them in a better position than those who have been complying with our laws and with our processes all along.

Why would we give preference to Mexican anyway?

The NAU.

Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist says he will have to reconsider his endorsement of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee after learning the Republican presidential candidate favors allowing illegal aliens to wait only days to receive documents allowing re-entry into the U.S.

Well, well. I though Jim Gilchrist "researched" all the candidates, and spent many months studying the immigration stance of each candidate, before he chose Mike Huckabee to endorse.

I guess it didn't take Jim too long to find out just how stupid he was to stand behind an open border preacher man. Oops, I fogot. Huckabee isn't even a preacher!