Tigersville, SC-

GOP Hopeful Mike Huckabee, who has sharpened his anti-illegal immigration talk recently, as he competes for the first in the south primary of South Carolina, put an exclamation point today next to his hardening stance on border security.

At an event sponsored, by two anti-illegal immigration umbrella groups, Huckabee signed a “No Amnesty” Pledge, that read in part that as president he would oppose” amnesty or any other special path to citizenship for the millions of foreign nationals unlawfully present in the United States.”

Roy Beck, head of Americans for Better Immigration, one of the event organizers, said Huckabee was the only presidential candidate so far to sign the pledge.

When asked if his rival John McCain should also sign the pledge, Huckabee side-stepped the question with a customary joke.

“I’m not going to speak for him. I have trouble enough speaking for me. I mess up enough speaking for me,” Huckabee said to laughter in the room.” Now if I thought I could mess up speaking for him, I’d go ahead and speak for him.

Beck however responded a little more bluntly. ” I think everybody should take the same pledge or at least promise it in some other way,” Beck told reporters. “But I think he made it clear in the South Carolina debate last week that at least 10 million illegal aliens ought to stay here permanently.” Beck replied, a slight smirk crossed his face as he finished the last sentence of the press conference.