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Huckabee Flip-Flops on Birthright Citizenship

Posted by Michael Link on January 8, 2008 at 01:54 PM

Today the Washington Times reported that Mike Huckabee vowed to amend the Constitution to prevent children born in the U.S. to illegal aliens from automatically becoming American citizens. It attributed this information to his "his top immigration surrogate," and fits nicely with his recent sharp right turn on immigration.

When the campaign was first asked about it, they didn't contest their support of the amendment.

Later, however, they issued this response:

I do not support an amendment to the constitution that would prevent children born in the U.S. to illegal aliens from automatically becoming American citizens. I have no intention of supporting a constitutional amendment to deny birthright citizenship.

But wait, not only is this a flip from what their story was yesterday -- back in August, it was Huckabee himself who stated, "I think there is reason to revisit that, just because a person, through sheer chance of geography, happened to be physically here at the point of birth, doesn't necessarily constitute citizenship. I think that's a very reasonable thing to do, to revisit that."

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