After the Republican debate in Iowa on Wednesday, we raced over to catch Mike Huckabee doing a healthcare event at Des Moines University. I have a question that I've been itching to ask the Governor, but unfortunately I wasn't able to squeeze it in before Huckabee stopped taking questions at the press avail after the event.

So I'll pose it here now publicly and hope that some reporter who's traveling with Huckabee reads it and is able to ask it to him in the next couple of days, because I really would like to hear his response:

Governor, in the YouTube debate a few weeks back you had exchange with Mitt Romney over your support for a bill that allowed illegal immigrants in the Arkansas school system to become eligible for in-state tuition breaks. You rebuffed Governor Romney's attack with a simple, powerful message by saying, "In all due respect, we are a better country than to punish children for what their parents did. We're a better country than that."

Less than two weeks later, you unveiled an immigration plan that would require "all illegal immigrants a 120-day window to register with the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services and leave the country. Those who register and return to their home country will face no penalty if they later apply to immigrate or visit; those who do not return home will be, when caught, barred from future reentry for a period of 10 years."

Would your plan require that all school age children who are here illegally be taken out of schools all across the country and forcibly deported, and wouldn't that, in fact, be punishing those children for something their parents did? If so, haven't you proposed a plan that is beneath the America you so eloquently defended just a few weeks ago?