Sunday, December 30, 2007

Huckabee is on Meet the Press right now making no sense on immigration. Huckabee's plan is that every illegal immigrant should register with ICE within 120 days and then leave the US to return home, then immediately apply for a visa to return (which I presume they would more or less be guaranteed since he is talking about them all coming back).

The kids who are US citizens apparently will just go home with the parents because "they are their parents children first". And the construction and service industry will not collapse, as he previously predicted would happen if illegal immigrants were forced to leave, because they will all be back in a few months.

Of course, the kids could decide not to leave - since they are US citizens - and create a million pissed off, homeless Hispanic kids across the US. And somehow I think shutting down the construction industry for a few months might have some negative effects (though if the housing bubble really bursts, maybe not).

The key thing to keep in mind with Huckabee is that while each sentence individually sounds not terrible, collectively theymake no sense. Rudy or McCain may sound nuts, but at least they are consistently nuts.

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