Huckabee signs 'No Amnesty' pledge

Huckabee signs 'No Amnesty' pledge

TIGERVILLE, S.C. – Gov. Mike Huckabee, the most vocal anti-illegal-immigration candidate of late, has now become the first in the field to sign the "No Amnesty" pledge from NumbersUSA, a self-proclaimed "immigration-reduction organization."

Huckabee signed the pledge Wednesday on the campus of North Greenville University, where he spoke to students at the Christian college. The pledge calls, in part, for no "amnesty or any other special path to citizenship for the millions of the foreign nationals unlawfully present in the United States.”

Through much of the campaign, other candidates, particularly Gov. Mitt Romney, called Huckabee weak on immigration, focusing on his support as governor for college scholarships for children of illegal immigrants in Arkansas.
"In all due respect, we are a better country than to punish children for what their parents did. We're a better country than that," Huckabee told Romney at the YouTube debate last November.

Huckabee has surely shifted the focus since then, such as earlier this week when he said that the government should put immigration on "hiatus" from countries "that sponsor terrorists."

On Wednesday, at an earlier stop in Travelers Rest – yes, that's the name of the town – Huckabee backed off that statement slightly, never mentioning the word "hiatus."
"I think we just need to do a more thorough job of insuring that when people come here and they come from nations that have been designated by the State Department as terrorist nations, that we are diligent in the background search," Huckabee said.

I think that the no amnesty act is wrong these people come here looking for a better life and they treat them horribly. I don't approve of people comming here illegally. At least give these people a chance to get their citizenship before you deport them.