Now Huckabee DOESN'T Want to End Anchor Babies?

Well, now this is interesting. I posted this morning on a Washington Times article that said

Mike Huckabee wants to amend the Constitution to prevent children born in the U.S. to illegal aliens from automatically becoming American citizens, according to his top immigration surrogate — a radical step no other major presidential candidate has embraced.

Mr. Huckabee, who won last week's Republican Iowa caucuses, promised Minuteman Project founder James Gilchrist that he would force a test case to the Supreme Court to challenge birthright citizenship, and would push Congress to pass a 28th Amendment to the Constitution to remove any doubt.

This, of course, runs completely against Huckabee's record of pandering to illegal aliens. But it is within keeping with his recent "conversion" on immigration and border control.

But this afternoon RedState reports that Huckabee's website issued a statement disavowing any support for such an amendment

"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."

So what's the deal? Obviously if Huckabee' website says this, then this is the official position (for today, at least) of the candidate. But why would the Washington Times print a story like that if there was no foundation for it?

There were no direct quotes from Huckabee in the article about this proposed amendment, but it seems to indicate that this information came through his new buddy, border control advocate Jim Gilchrist:

Mr. Huckabee told Mr. Gilchrist that he supports a Supreme Court test case but also would encourage Congress to introduce a constitutional amendment to exclude from automatic citizenship any children born to illegal aliens.

So is Gilchrist going rogue here? Is he running ahead of Huckabee? Hopefully more on this will develop.

Too bad Huckabee doesn't support such an amendment. It would be a good way to slow down the illegal alien problem by ending the "anchor" by which some maintain residence in the United States. As I stated this morning, if we limited birth citizenship to children whose parents were in the country legally at the time of birth, this could be an effective and fair measure.

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