Selwyn Duke at The Intellectual Conservative has posted a great article that takes a look at Mike Huckabee’s illegal immigration positions in the past:

Huck would be a disaster – a disaster – on immigration. In fact, in 2006 he compared those who would crack down on illegals to antebellum slave masters, saying,

One of the great challenges facing us is that we do not commit the same mistakes with our growing Hispanic population that we did with African Americans 150 years ago and beyond. We’re still paying the price for the pathetic manner in which this country handled that.

Outrageously, it seems Huck can’t distinguish between denying citizens the protection of the law and requiring non-citizens to follow it.

According to Roy Beck, president of the immigration reform group NumbersUSA, this isn’t out of character for Huck. Says Beck,

He was an absolute disaster on immigration as governor. Every time there was any enforcement in his state, he took the side of the illegal aliens.

This was evident when Huck condemned Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids on chicken plants in Arkansas. But his stance was no surprise.

Huckabee is on the wrong side of this issue. This is one of the many reasons I cannot give him my vote in the primaries, even though he is the strongest advocate for the Fair Tax. We have to have a president that sees an open border for the national security threat that it is and recognizes the danger it poses to our culture.

We cannot allow the country to divide itself on the grounds of race, speech, culture. We have to have a melting pot, not a salad bar. America is a great country because of the assimilation process, not because of hyphenated Americans. We are strongest when we stand as one people, one country. I don’t want people to stop coming here. I want people to come here and become Americans. We will fall if we divide ourselves. We wouldn’t be the first.