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This is good, because it amounts to a veiled threat; don’t address the issue, and see the Red ire… address it to our satisfaction and don’t come through on your promises and you run the risk of being a one termer, a la “read my lips, no new taxes” Bush Sr.

Shot across the bow, boys… any constituency with enough cojones to harangue their own President and shut down the Congressional switchboard will not take kindly to being deceived. Huckabee read the tea leaves and knows this, so he decides to publish this plan. In light of his comments about education for kids of illegals, I don’t believe it; I think it’s disingenuous and contrived.

BZZT. Thanks for playing; as a runner up, you get this nifty set of ginsu knives and a this lovely board game.

Enough said.

How does his tough enforcement-first stance square with his refusal to back down on providing scholarships for illegal immigrants?

Slublog on December 6, 2007 at 10:18 AM

You’re using the wrong tool for the job. Instead of a square, use a triangle. Then it all makes sense. :)

Only recently Huck said that his soul dictates his policies on crime, illegal immigration and Gitmo; which is a holier-than-thou way of saying it was the right thing to do. Now, a few days later when he is getting a lot of flak for being soft on crime and lying about it, he thinks he can dupe people into believing that his soul has miraculously changed and now, by his own logic, he wants to do the wrong thing?

Nuh uh, I don’t buy it. I don’t trust this guy any more than I do Bill Clinton.

1) Refuse to do any business with anyone that is involved with illegals
2) Refuse to do business with those that violate (1)

Economic firewall

IMHO, if illegal immigration looks like a problem there are only 3 choices, Hunter, Tancredo, and Fred.

I also believe that a fence won’t stop them all, but it’s a important and symbolic start but a virtual fence will stop virtually nobody. Employer enforcement is where 90% of our efforts should be placed and a modern and usable means of legal immigration and temporary guest worker program, without a path to citizenship, is vital.

I like Huckabee’s plan but I don’t believe him any more than if Hillary rolled out the same plan.

I searched in the comments and found no mention of this problem with the Fair (sales) Tax:

Illegal aliens don’t spend all of their money buying things in this country – they wire it home using Western Union’s convenient Spanish language forms at the local supermarket.
Twenty BILLION a year is sent to Mexico untaxed.

How ‘fair’ is this??

- Do not underestimate the value of the asterisk. I’ll wager Huck is hoping that Kennedy has one of his turns and keaves the window in the wall wide open.
- Related to that, I’m going to need a lot of syrup with this flapjack.

Maybe they mean like the invisible dog fence. Where do they get the collar?

Any candidate that talks about virtual fences will earn my virtual vote…then they can see how much good being a virtual president is.

Ochlan on December 6, 2007 at 1:01 PM

I love it!!

Do these politicians even bother reading what they put out? This makes no sense.

Any candidate that talks about virtual fences will earn my virtual vote…then they can see how much good being a virtual president is.

Ochlan on December 6, 2007 at 1:01 PM

Classic!

“interlocking surveillance camera” – Part of “virtual fence

Any candidate that talks about virtual fences will earn my virtual vote…then they can see how much good being a virtual president is.

Increase the number of border patrol agents.

By what, two? Five? Ten?

No substance to this “plan” just like there is no substance to this man.

Not buying it.

Point 1:
“interlocking surveillance camera” – Part of “virtual fence. Security system has already proven it doesn’t work and was a big scam.

“the border fence construction” – the “partial border fence. Refer to the first comment about surveillance. Border fence will only cover parts of the border.

Point 2:
“Increase the number of border patrol agents” – behind desks and doing administrative tasks like trying to fix surveillance cameras.

“Fully support all law enforcement personnel tasked with enforcing immigration law” – I support what your doing, but I’ll deny funding in appropriations bills. I’m slick like the rest of them.

Point 3:
“Policies that promote or tolerate amnesty will be rejected” – who cares. Existing policies already create a defacto massive amnesty.

“Propose to provide” – don’t actually do anything, just propose. And our government has been SO SUCCESSFUL at controlling illegal immigration, they surely will handle this new bureaucracy with utmost efficiency. Please.

Point 4:
“denying them jobs is the centerpiece of an attrition strategy” – we can’t even deny jobs to people with mismatching SSN’s. How do they expect to implement such a plan? Lawyers will ensure this “denying” won’t ever take place (kind of like mph gas standards that won’t take place until 2020)

“Impose steep fines and penalties on employers that violate the law” – they will ensure that these penalties are cheaper than the benefits gain by employing illegals. Advantage corrupt business.

“Institute a universal, mandatory citizenship verification system as part of the normal hiring process.” – we already have one that businesses can use voluntarily. Make it their responsibility and they will complain they are not immigration enforcement. Again “institute” doesn’t mean enforce or fine if they don’t.

“Prevent the IRS and the Social Security Administration from accepting fraudulent Social Security numbers or numbers that don’t match the employees’ names.” The IRS already accepts ITIN’s which they know are obtained by millions of illegals. They don’t care and this will never work as long as ITIN’s are out there.

Point 5:
“The FairTax provides an extra layer of security by creating an economic disincentive to immigrate to the U.S. illegally.” – The economic disincentive will still be more attractive than wages in central and south America, thus illegal immigration will increase.

Point 6:
“Promote better cooperation on enforcement by supporting legislative measures” – buzz words that equate to “talk loud, carry a virtual stick.”

“Local authorities must be provided the tools, training, and funding they need so local police can turn illegal immigrants over to the federal authorities.” – local authorities set up sanctuary cities making this statement ridiculous. “Must be provided?” Yeah, if the money isn’t there (think Homeland Security Fund cuts), nothing will happen.

Point 7:
“End exemptions for Mexicans and Canadians to the US-VISIT program” Why did the US-VISIT” program have exemptions in the first place? Answer, government corruption ensures it, and you can bet your ass, point 7 will have loopholes.

“Reject Mexico’s “matricula consular” card, which functions as an illegal-immigrant identification card.” – states like Maryland won’t care. They will use two other forms of proof of resicence and ignore this requirement.

Point 8:
“Inform foreign governments when their former citizens become naturalized U.S. citizens.” Governments like Mexico that actually enforce their borders and care about sovereignty already know their citizens are dual citizens. Their remittance payments already prove this and as long as they keep coming, they could care less.

“Impose civil and/or criminal penalties on American citizens who illegitimately use their dual status” – again DON’T ACTUALLY “STOP” them just fine them and let them continue on.

Point 9:
Summarized – make the process easier and so much more in numbers that points 1-8 don’t even matter anyway.