Huckabee ‘moving in direction’ of ’16 run

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) said on Sunday that it is “pretty evident” that he’s moving in the direction of a 2016 presidential bid. 

During an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Huckabee said his timetable for announcing a possible bid is sometime during spring. 

{mosads}Huckabee waded into the ongoing immigration debate in Washington, saying “you don’t punish a child for something his parents did.”

“I don’t know that we’ve ever been a nation that said if you’re in the back seat of the car when your dad is speeding we are going to charge you in the back seat for what your dad did in the front seat,” Huckabee said Sunday, highlighting his differences with fellow Republicans on the issue.

Still, when asked if he would roll back the president’s 2012 executive order granting undocumented children legal status, Huckabee said “yes.”

“Oh yes, I would because he didn’t have the authority to do it and he said he didn’t have the authority,” Huckabee said. 

“There is a process, we have a thing called the Constitution and the Constitution doesn’t allow the chief executive just to make up a law.”

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