From OneNewsNow, some believe Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee's involvement in a Mexican consulate may not be solely for the sake of international relations between Mexico and Arkansas:
Corsi claims Huckabee and the state "courted" then-Mexican President Vicente Fox to establish the consulate. "Mike Huckabee took an airplane ride in 2003, was going on down to see Vicente Fox with one of his top economic advisors," he says, "and that started discussions where basically Arkansas came and courted Vicente Fox, saying put a Mexican consulate here in Little Rock, please."
The investigative journalist believes the state may have overstepped its authority in urging the Mexicans to come to Little Rock, and contends the state essentially "shelled out" office space for the consulate because the Mexican government preferred to "let the gringos pay." Corsi questions if a consortium of businesses had the legal right to "support the consular presence" during the first three years, including what appears to be the costs of building a permanent consular facility in Little Rock.
"I'm not sure that Arkansas law permits the state government to subsidize ... another foreign government [in that fashion]," he shares. "I haven't yet identified who the corporations are who paid this lease, and I still don't know if the Mexican consulate is paying its own way or not, or if the private corporations in Arkansas are still funding the bill."
Huckabee denies his motivation for the establishing the consulate was to help draw more illegal immigrants into the state, insisting his major goal was to assist Arkansas companies in export-import business with Mexico.
Given that Huckabee called "racist" and "bigoted" a law to deny government benefits to illegal immigrants who shouldn't even be in the United States in the first place, well, you be the judge...
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