Politico
By Eliza Collins
July 5, 2015
Former
Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee made clear on Sunday that he sees some
immigration issues differently than his Republican presidential rival,
Donald Trump.
“What
I have been doing is focusing on what my own views of immigration
happen to be, rather than weighing in on getting in this battle of, are
we with Trump or against
Trump?” Huckabee said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “I say some things
very differently. I say every night, I get on my knees and thank God
I’m in a country people are trying to break into, rather than one
they’re trying to break out of.”
While
some immigrants may have “nefarious goals,” Huckabee said most of them
come to the U.S. for the opportunity to be Americans.
“They
come to help their families, some of the hardest-working people…and I
think this is often lost — some of the most conservative,
family-oriented and faith-based people
I have ever witnessed,” he said.
“I
would never besmirch all the people who come here because I think,
sometimes, we get wrapped up in how many people are coming. The real
question is, why are they coming?”
Huckabee said. “If they’re coming because they want to be part of the
American dream, if they want to come and share our flag, our interests,
our language, assimilate into our culture because they believe in what
we stand for, you know, then that’s the same
reason our ancestors came.”
And
Huckabee was quick to declare that Trump, the billionaire real estate
developer and entertainer, “needs no help from Mike Huckabee to get
publicity. He’s doing a really
good job of that.”
“I’m
for some reasonable approaches to immigration that start with a secure
border," the former governor said, pledging to secure the U.S.-Mexico
border within a year
if he’s elected president.
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