When former Pakistani leaders Benazir Bhutto was assassinated, Mike Huckabee’s first impulse was to change the administration of U.S. law to discriminate against Pakistanis. Huckabee, who governed a state that has no international borders, says that the U.S. Customs Service needs to be on the watch for Pakistanis and “single them out” for special scrutiny.

Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich stood up and called Huckabee to task for his ill-informed discriminatory reflex. Kucinich said, “Implying that Pakistani immigrants, visitors, and even Pakistani Americans should be singled out as potential terrorists is the kind of unwarranted, unconscionable ethnic profiling and ethnic baiting that is the hallmark of Republican thinking - in foreign policy, in immigration policy, and in so-called homeland security policy. No racial, ethnic, or religious group is safe from their audacious affronts to human decency and their continued assaults on Constitutional liberties and protections.”

Dennis Kucinich is right. Mike Huckabee’s plans to transform the American borders into a tool of ethnic and cultural purification are based on ignorant and mean-spirited assumptions. Mike Huckabee has demonstrated once again that he has no business becoming President of the United States.

(Source: PRNewswire, December 28, 2007)