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Huckabee on Immigration: No passport for you!

Posted January 9, 2008

“Huckabee claims to be for ‘less government and more freedom,’ but his proposal is no less than Big Brother in action.” — Bob Bauman.

Blogger’s note: The surprise upset in Iowa last week has thrown Mike Huckabee’s policy proposals into the forefront. And Sovereign Society editor (and legal counsel) Bob Bauman wrote the following article about one of Huckabee’s more radical solutions for the illegal immigration problem, although how this helps prevent illegal immigrants, we have yet to figure out. I thought you’d appreciate learning what exactly your current rights are and what the potential results could be if Huckabee’s proposal was made into law. You can find the complete article here or read on for more.

by Bob Bauman, Sovereign Society

Baltimore – (TFN): In all the news media ballyhoo before the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, a disturbing, indeed radical proposal by Republican presidential candidate (and Iowa winner), Mike Huckabee, seems to have slipped by unnoticed.

Huckabee claims to be for “less government and more freedom,” but his proposal is no less than Big Brother in action.

The former Arkansas governor wants to impose a federal law that would deny American citizens the right to hold dual citizenship. Never mind the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld this right in several cases decades ago.

Huckabee actually claims he wants to make it a crime for a potential estimate of 40 million Americans, who now have a right to dual citizenship, even to use a foreign passport for travel or business purposes.

Huckabee on Immigration: Legal or illegal

Huckabee’s jingoistic proposal came as part of his “get-tough-on-illegal-immigrants” campaign. He aimed this proposal at getting votes among conservatives in Iowa, New Hampshire and elsewhere who are rightfully concerned about illegal immigration. Huckabee is also addressing the Bush administration’s failure to protect U.S. borders.

Indeed, Huckabee would also make it a crime for U.S. citizens to vote in foreign elections or perform official or military service in other countries. (In recent years, Americans with dual nationality have served as officials in the governments of Yugoslavia, Armenia and Estonia. A retired U.S. Government employee, Valdas Adanikus, was elected president of his native Lithuania. A former New York City attorney, Lionel Fernandez, is in his second, non-consecutive term as president of the Dominican Republic.)

Huckabee’s main target seems to be the millions of legal U.S. citizens of Mexican descent who, under Mexico’s laws and constitution, have a right to vote in Mexican elections, as well as in the United States. Many other nations also allow voting by dual nationals.

(And for good measure, on the eve of the New Hampshire primary, populist Huckabee took a swipe at Americans whom he claimed “hide their money in Cayman Islands bank accounts.”) Read on here to learn what the Supreme Court has to say about your right to citizenship and the government’s new plans to hold your passport hostage.

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