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In an interview with NPR, possible 2012 GOP candidate Mike Huckabee gave a blunt “no” to whether he would favor repealing parts of the 14th Amendment. “You do not punish a child for something the parent did,” he said. Nor is this the first time Huckabee has tee’d off his own party on immigration; as governor of Arkansas, he supported a policy to allow children of illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition.

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Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent for The Week, an economics and climate reporter for ThinkProgress, and has written for the policy journal Democracy.