Politicians who take a softer line on illegal immigration seem to have found their favorite catch phrase.

If you remember this Locker Room item from Friday, you’ll remember that Gov. Mike Easley said about illegal immigrants attending N.C. community colleges: “I?m not willing to grind my heel in their faces and slam the door on them.”

In the new TIME, Joe Klein writes of a Republican presidential candidate:

Huckabee is likely to suffer for refusing to demagogue immigration. He
is already in trouble for offering college scholarships to deserving
children of illegal immigrants in Arkansas. “We never should grind our
heel in the face of a child,” he has said.

Coincidence?