Mike Huckabee on immigration

Carolyn Hileman* | October 31, 2007

On border security
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, a Republican, has said Americans need to worry about security on the northern and southern borders. He advocates building a fence, parts of which would be electronic. “What we need to do is a have a border that is sealed and the same kind of process that we have to go through if we go into a stadium: We go in one at a time and we have a ticket,” he said.

On immigration overhaul
Huckabee opposed the 2007 immigration bill that would have provided a path to citizenship to many of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the USA. “It offers amnesty,” he said. Huckabee said people who came here illegally years ago but are “law-abiding taxpayers” should pay a “significant fine” and face either deportation or a “rigorous” process toward legal status. Huckabee also supports a tamper-proof ID card so foreigners can “come here to do the jobs — plucking chickens, tarring roofs, picking fruits — that are going unfilled by our citizens.”

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