Reps Continue Move Toward Restrictionist Immigration Policies

The formerly "soft on immigration" Republican presidential candidates continue their moves toward the enforcement-only end of the spectrum. The Washington Times reports that former Arkansas Gov. Mike (Huck) Huckabee yesterday signed a pledge to enforce immigration laws and to make all undocumented immigarnts go home. The pledge, offered by immigration control advocacy group Numbers USA, commits Huckabee to oppose a new path to citizenship for undocumentyed immigrants and to reduce the number in the country through "attrition" by increased enforcement — something Huckabee said he will achieve through his nine-point immigration plan (which, as we reported here, was "borrowed" from the restrictionist Center for Immigration Studies.

For a story on Rudy Guiliani's shift from a pro-immigrant defender of the "huddled masses" mayor to an "enforcement now, enforcement forever" Republican presidential candidate, click here.

KJ