2022 AR Governor's race: on Immigration

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Some immigrants are worse than animals

Sarah Huckabee Sanders' political ambitions for the candidacy for governor of Arkansas have been obvious ever since she departed as former President Donald Trump's press secretary, telling The New York Times in a 2019 interview that she felt "called" to serve as senator or governor.

She was known for her blunt answers ("frankly I don't think ['animals'] was strong enough," she told the press when asked about Trump's use of the dehumanizing word to describe "some immigrants"), her defenses of the indefensible (calling it "very Biblical" to separate migrant families at the border).

Source: The Week newsmagazine on 2022 Arkansas gubernatorial race Jan 26, 2021

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Pledges to defund sanctuary cities, already done in 2019

Sanders came under attack from [Lt. Gov. Tim] Griffin, who criticized her campaign video pledge to "prohibit sanctuary cities and cut off funding for cities that deliberately violate immigration laws." Griffin noted that [Gov. Asa] Hutchinson in 2019 had already signed into law a measure cutting off state funding to so-called "sanctuary cities" that do not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement authorities. Source: Politico.com e-zine on 2022 Arkansas gubernatorial race Jan 25, 2021

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Defends sending immigrants to Democrat-led sanctuary cities

Q: Trump said he wants to bus migrants to sanctuary cities run by Democrats.

SANDERS: Certainly this wouldn't be our first choice. Democrats have stated time and time again they support open borders, they support sanctuary cities. So, let's spread out some of that burden and let's put it in some of those other locations if that's what they want to see happen and are refusing to actually help fix the problem.

Source: ABC This Week on 2022 Arkansas Gubernatorial race Apr 14, 2019

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Defended family separation: very Biblical to enforce the law

[On immigrant family separation]: "On the children who are being separated from their families as they come across the border, the attorney general said there is justification for this in the Bible," said CNN's Jim Acosta. "Where does it say in the Bible that it's moral to take children away from their mothers?" Sanders said that "it is very Biblical to enforce the law," before blaming Democrats for refusing to close the "legal loopholes" that enabled the administration's new policy. Source: Rolling Stone magazine on 2022 Arkansas Gubernatorial race Jun 14, 2018

The above quotations are from 2022 Arkansas Gubernatorial race: debates and news coverage. Click here for definitions & background information on Immigration. Click here for other issues (main summary page). Click here for more quotes by Asa Hutchinson on Immigration.
*Candidates and political leaders on Immigration:*
*Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:* GA:Chambliss(R) IA:Harkin(D) MI:Levin(D) MT:Baucus(D) NE:Johanns(R) OK:Coburn(R) SD:Johnson(D) WV:Rockefeller(D) *Resigned from 113th House:* AL-1:Jo Bonner(R) FL-19:Trey Radel(R) LA-5:Rod Alexander(R) MA-5:Ed Markey(D) MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R) NC-12:Melvin Watt(D) SC-1:Tim Scott(R)	*Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:* AR-4:Tom Cotton(R) GA-1:Jack Kingston(R) GA-10:Paul Broun(R) GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R) HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D) IA-1:Bruce Braley(D) LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R) ME-2:Mike Michaud(D) MI-14:Gary Peters(D) MT-0:Steve Daines(R) OK-5:James Lankford(R) PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D) TX-36:Steve Stockman(R) WV-2:Shelley Capito(R)	*Retired House as of Jan. 2015:* AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R) AR-2:Tim Griffin(R) CA-11:George Miller(D) CA-25:Howard McKeon(R) CA-33:Henry Waxman(D) CA-45:John Campbell(R) IA-3:Tom Latham(R) MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R) NC-6:Howard Coble(R) NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D) NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R) NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D) NY-21:Bill Owens(D) PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R) UT-4:Jim Matheson(D) VA-8:Jim Moran(D) VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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