Thread: Huckabee endorsement 'only if' all illegals out

Huckabee endorsement 'only if' all illegals out
Minuteman founder stresses support conditional on 'leave or get arrested'

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Posted: December 16, 2007
7:39 p.m. Eastern


By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com


The founder of the Minuteman Project says his endorsement of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is a conditional one – based on a tough understanding of the former governor's "Secure America Plan" to oust all illegal aliens, or put them behind bars.


"Huckabee's plan would force all illegal immigrants to leave the United States within 120 days, or be arrested," Jim Gilchrist told WND in an exclusive interview.

When asked why he thought illegal immigrants would voluntarily deport themselves, as Huckabee's plan requires, Gilchrist said, "If you start arresting illegal aliens and start take away all their social welfare benefits, the illegal aliens won't have a choice except to leave."

Gilchrist further indicated illegals under Huckabee's proposal may have to wait years before they were allowed to re-enter.

"The illegal immigrants will not be allowed back into the United States until they are legally allowed re-entry," he said, "even if that takes years."

"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," Gilchrist continued. "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."

However, when pressed on how he'd react if Huckabee's plan turned out to provide for quick re-entry, Gilchrist ceased his praise.

"If, in fact, there is no standing in line and waiting for legal entry, I would have a serious reservation about endorsing Huckabee," he said.

WND questioned Gilchrist how Huckabee's "Secure America Plan" differed from the suggestion Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., had advanced unsuccessfully during the 109th Congress, requiring illegal aliens to repatriate with so-called "Ellis Island Centers" before applying for legal immigration to the United States.

Pence, in an op-ed piece archived on his House website, distinguishes that his original suggestion was not designed to be a gimmick.

"The purpose of requiring illegal immigrants to leave the country to get right with the law is not simply to do a quick 'touchback,'" Pence wrote. "That is a gimmick. The purpose of leaving the country to get right with the law is to require people to apply for the legal right to enter the United Sates in the same way all other visa applicants apply to come into the United States."

Gilchrist acknowledged there were similarities between Huckabee's plan and Pence's proposal.

"Still, Huckabee's plan doesn't mention 'touch-back,'" Gilchrist insisted, "nor does Huckabee mention the Pence bill when advancing his own plan."

Huckabee's "Secure America Plan" as specified on his campaign website provides a 120-day window for all illegal immigrants to register with the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services and leave the country.

Those who register and return to their home country would face no penalty if they later apply to immigrate or visit.

The plan further specifies that illegal immigrants who do not return home will, when caught, be barred from future re-entry for a period of ten years.

"The Huckabee plan has a 120-day window for all illegal aliens to turn themselves in and repatriate to their homeland," Gilchrist affirmed. "If that is not done, when they are caught and apprehended, they will be forcibly returned to their homelands and they will sacrifice for 10 years any possibility of coming to the United States for any reason."

As WND reported last week, Gilchrist's surprise endorsement of Huckabee drew fire from a divided border enforcement movement, with many insisting Gilchrist spoke only for himself, not for the Minuteman movement.


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I have a problem with their every being allowed back in the country.

If they are here now, it proves they have no respect for this country or it's people - or it's laws.

If they are readmitted at some point in time and given citizenship, they are going to work very hard to get revenge on this country for sending them home.

Bad idea to let them back in - why would you? They have already had a slice of the American Pie - illegally. They should consider themselves lucky and stay home and make Mexico better.

No, NO, do not let them come back - that sounds very fishy to me.l

Mr. Huckabee cannot be supported in his desires to give the illegal alien children a pass because this draws the entire illegal alien family into another Amnesty. The cries of do not separate us from our children would leave the parents here to care for the young illegal aliens. It is just a big vicious circle and Americans are the losers. We the People would still be forced to pay for and support the illegal alien invaders. Compassion dictates that these families self deport and allow the American family to care for and support their own and help those if needed who come here through the proper, legal channels.

Besides, Mike Huckabee calls those who oppose illegal immigration names. He has done too much to bring illegal aliens to this nation, offered them sanctuary in his state, and backed the Mexican Consulate office for further sanctioning of the illegal alien presence. His "new" talk does little to convince those who are familiar with this issue and its devastation that he truly "gets it" as he is now saying.

The children are being used by the illegal alien parents and by anyone and everyone else who profits from illegal immigration.

Luke 2

Wait my foot!!!! Huckabee has no intention of holding back citizenship for the ILLEGAL ALIENS. It's TOUCHBACK plain and simple, and to try and spin any othr way, is useless!

Gilchrist is an idiot..........also plain and simple!!!!

Gilchrist further indicated illegals under Huckabee's proposal may have to wait years before they were allowed to re-enter..."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," Gilchrist continued. "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."

Huckabee specifically said on Fox News Sunday he wasn't talking about years, but rather days or weeks. So I am still very skeptical of Huckabee and Gilchrist's endorsement.

Originally Posted by CitizenJustice

Wait my foot!!!! Huckabee has no intention of holding back citizenship for the ILLEGAL ALIENS. It's TOUCHBACK plain and simple, and to try and spin any othr way, is useless!

Gilchrist is an idiot..........also plain and simple!!!!

Gilchrist has been bought and paid for. He will now say anything in support for hickabee.

Commentary from Rep. Steve King on Mike Huckabee and illegal immigration.

(quote)

Mike Huckabee is unquestioned in his commitment to life and marriage. He, like President Bush, would need help in selecting judicial appointments. No one could dislike the man or disrespect his convictions. But Huckabee has been forceful and even judgmental in voicing his conviction to give scholarships to illegal immigrants. Just one amnesty policy, and there are others, destroys the chance to reestablish the Rule of Law. How can Huckabee answer to the sons and daughters of veterans or veterans themselves who come back from the war to find that illegals have desks in classrooms at a discount prohibited to them? Compassionate conservatism run amok is hard to harness, as we have seen. The Rule of Law cannot be reestablished without “tough loveâ€

He is just another flip flopper trying to please everybody, because he has no true convictions of his own.

Oh Jimmy don't you know only a fool tries to ice skate up hill?