Guys on a side note, all illegals aliens are as legal as Christopher Columbus. lol.

It absolutely amazes me that Mitt Romney has been the only candidate who has had a plan to deal with illegal immigration that did not deal with amnesty. He is the one that spoke openly about penalizing employers, he is the one that threatened to withdraw national funding from sanctuary cities. Huckabee comes up with a copy- cat idea and all of the sudden he is a super hero.

This man makes me sick! He is a snake! If he wins the nomination I will not be voting!

Is it just me, or does Huckabee look like he's throwing up a gang sign in that photo?

The comment from CA-Native made me question the comment. This person actually believe Hillary took ideas from Obama. What a joke.

Obama has no ideas. All of what he ever says is, I offer HOPE, takes a jab at Hillary, then he takes Hillary's, Edward's, Dodd, Richardson, and Biden's ideas from them working years to try to make America better and claim them to be his own.

You can tell Obama does not have a clue because everytime he is asked a question, he can not formulate a complete thought. If someone really stands for something, one would think that person would be able to articulate it without all of 'uh's' you get from Obama when he is not making a speech.

He is NOT ready yet to be President.

Tom Tancredo has been saying the same things for months if not years! ATTRITION THROUGH ENFORCEMENT! The only GOP candidates that can actually be trusted on the illegal immigration issue are Tancredo, Hunter, and Paul. The others have only recently "seen the light" on this issue and are adopting these three candidates ideas as their own (and not just on this issue!).

Check out the NumbersUSA website
http://www.numbersusa.com/index

They say:
"(December 7) Every candidate wants voters to think he/she would end future illegal immigration. But NumbersUSA's Roy Beck finds that of 15 candidates of both parties, only six are even making promises that rate them as "good" or "excellent" on fighting future illegal immigration. Likewise, only four of these 15 are making promises that rate them as “good” or “excellent” on reducing legal immigration, which is at its highest level in history."

"In the Republican race, former Senator Fred Thompson (Tenn.) and former Governors Mitt Romney (Mass.) and Mike Huckabee (Ark.) are outdoing each other to adopt policies to try to look as good as Representatives Tom Tancredo (Colo.), Duncan Hunter (Calif.) and Ron Paul (Tex.). Take a look."

"In the Democratic race, only Rep. Chris Dodd (Conn.) appears to be adopting more immigration reduction policies. Take a look."

This site links to another site:

http://www.betterimmigration.com/candidates/2006/prez08_gop1.html

Scroll to the bottom to see what the candidates' PAST records indicate - not what they're promising.

(Note: these organizations do not endorse candidates. They compile and assess information only on the immigration issue.)

Several months ago, congress decided not to approve the immigration reform bill that President Bush and several others worked very hard on, the vote was very close though. I have to wonder, did congress not want it to pass at that time, so it could become a major election issue as it has become?
People didn't want the issue dealt with months ago, why do they now?

You have my vote Mr. Huckabee. Most Americans would love to see a crackdown on the employers of illegal immigrants and many could get their jobs back.

Its great to finally see a candidate take a postion that will actually fix the illegal immigration problem. Comprehensive illegal immigration reform is just a sham, written by corporate special interests and full of unenforcables and loopholes. the Comprehensive approach would basically create an open border and unlimited importation of cheap labor, effectively putting all Americans out of work.

Huckabee and Romney claim all kinds of public service but neither had the guts to serve their country one day in the Armed Forces. Neither has put their life on the line for their country. They have only lived off the largesse of the American taxpayer. I, for one, do not want either on of them occupying the White House as my Commander-in-Chief. They will both acquiesce and we will all be speaking mexican or farsi in no time at all.

Huckleberry would be a complete disaster to this nation if he makes it to the White House. Please don't allow this jerk to win.

And your point is?

The CIS is not a racist organization. The racists that currently are the most active is the lets let in all Latinos from south of the border and prohibit anyone else from entering. These racists are big business enterests, too lazy to modernize their facilities or just too cheap to pay a respectable wage. These racists seek to reduce the status of latinos to subhuman labor mechanisms. Pigeonholed as people who will all ways work hard for little or nothing.The cure is to repeal NAFTA and pressure Mexico into distributing their wealth and create decent jobs for its people.

"Note: This plan is partially modeled on a proposal by Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies." That proposal by the conservative anti-illegal immigration activist was published in the National Review in May 2005.

Does anyone else see Huckabee grabbing onto someone else's plan because he figured that his own, "Lets put them all through college" plan wasn't too popular. Talk about Flip-Flop with just a dash of deception.

Recipe For Disaster:

Take one Baptist minister
*Must be "the Christian" candidate
Add over taxation
Rub generously with bankruptcy
Mix with illegal immigration
Throw in a few rapists
Add a bunch of Evangelical zealots
Sprinkle with deception to taste

Cook in a White House for four years!

I am sure glad watched the CNN debate. While I thought it was staged too much, It did give me my first opportunity to watch and hear Gov. Huckabee. He is the type of republican I like, conservative!

Interesting that CIS is also tied to racist organizations: http://americaabroad.tpmcafe.com/node/28668

"The CIS, as well as many other anti-immigrant groups, were founded by one man - a known White Supremacist by the name of John Tanton."

I like Huckabees gangster signs. Right on!

Well if it's true it's not really his idea, then who cares who makes it work?

Did Roebling invent suspension cabling for bridges? Did Shakespeare really write "To be or not to be…"? Did Al Gore actually connect the first two computers all by his self? Who cares, we all enjoy the benefits of the work provided by millions of unknowns.

Great men have the farsightedness to see beyond the mediocre by standing on the shoulders of greater men!

he doesn't have an original thought on anything.

So what's the big deal? He admits that he liked someone else's plan and gave them the credit due. Better to be honest than to put out the same plan as someone else and claim he came up with it himself like so many others do. It is amazing how when a candidate starts to do well in the polls, everything they do is suddenly hit with a negative sounding slant from the media.

Is this the same Huckabee who wanted to give scholarships to illegal aliens (he calls them 'children' but if they are going to college, they are no longer minors).

They are jumping in line in front of people all over the world who want to come to America. Go back home, get in line and come here legally.

We must not give benefits to illegal aliens. Why not? We are a nation of laws. We are a very generous nation, as well, but we need to follow the law and must not reward people who, by their very presence here is breaking our laws.

Huckster has no credibility on this issue of illegal aliens (or on being tough on crime…what was it, 650 clemencies and pardons? Mitt Romney did not pardon one single person. Now that's tough on crime!)

HUCK IS IN THE SURGE -GO HUCK FINN A REAL AMERICAN,YEAH!! FAIR TAX, YOU HEAR THAT!!!!! TAKE BACK AMERICA PEOPLE NOW!!!

Wow, CNN, you are so biased, it is pathetic. You put out there an accusation of cribbing with NO evidence and then make it look like the campaign is in the wrong. In fact the campaign has been perfectly upfront in stating that they admired Krikorian's approach so much so that they based the plan on it. Krikorian is flattered; you see it as plagiarism. Why don't you go ahead and endorse Hillary Clinton? We all know you would hate to see a conservative win, just admit it. It's pathetic.

LOL. What do people expect? This guy can only run if he adopts other candidates and activists positions. How about something original from Huckabee besides tax hikes and dishonesty.

Thats one reason I like HUCKABEE! Other issues he is right on target!

He cited his source, what's the issue?

YES!!! finally a candidate for president who has respect for the rule of law and respect for the middle class working people who have seen theri jobs given to illegals or seen their wages drop due to competition for illegals. Going after the employers of illegals is the only way and most Americans would like to see them and the ACLU thrown is jail.
MR, Huckubee you just won my vote!!

Hey Huck, paying the college costs for illegal immigrants' kids also is a big lure here.

The Center for Immigration Studies produced a laughable piece dramatically overstating the impact of illegal immigrants on the uninsured problem in America. If Huckabee wants to keep his honesty label, he needs to shed any association with CIS.

Wow - if we could actually get CNN to do a side-by-side comparison of Hillary Clinton's policy statements (that come after Obama) to his originals… voters might see how Hillary is effectively plagarizing Obama.

Naah… on 2nd thought - that would put Hillary and democrats in a bad light. Scratch that idea!

CNN has too much work on their plate preparing for the next Demoplant Debate.