Posted on 04/21/2015 10:04:43 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The Post reports that Walker now says, “In terms of legal immigration, how we need to approach that going forward is saying … the next president and the next Congress need to make decisions about a legal immigration system that’s based on, first and foremost, protecting American workers and American wages.” He went on to cite favorably Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) on the subject. The notion that legal immigration hurts the economy and native workers has been rebutted repeatedly and is widely disparaged by a host of pro-growth conservatives and scholars.....
AshLee Strong, spokeswoman for Walker’s Our American Revival PAC, tells me:“Governor Walker supports American workers’ wages and the U.S. economy and thinks both should be considered when crafting a policy for legal immigration. He strongly supports legal immigration, and like many Americans, believes that our economic situation should be considered instead of arbitrary caps on the amount of immigrants that can enter.”
It is not clear whether Walker is doing a 180 on legal immigration because he has not yet come out with a complete plan of his own. It’s not clear whether he understands that immigration is one way to boost economic growth. (There is replete evidence that immigration boosts revenue, growth and does not take jobs away from native-born workers.) Political tea-readers are therefore forced to guess at his inclinations from each utterance, but mentioning only Sessions by name is a red flag to those who see a know-nothing aversion to immigration that defies reality.
It would be hard to understand why Walker might go the Sessions route. His standing in the polls remains solid. Other pro-immigration Republicans are not hobbled by sticking with their past position. He could certainly oppose comprehensive immigration plans that legalize the status of those here illegally without veering into labor protectionism. ...."
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Rubin has been a mouthpiece for The Cheap Labor Express for a long time. She gets paid to advocate for the cheap labor importation that they confuse with immigration.
“It’s not clear whether he understands that immigration is one way to boost economic growth”
I don’t know about Scott Walker but she’s a moron. 11-20 million illegals and we are in an ongoing depression.
Advocacy?
Might one ask for an example?
That is, without being set ablaze?
She’s a columnist for Washington Post.
Jennifer Rubin ("blogger") is beyond a moron, she is an evil shill for the establishment amnesty lobby.
I grew up in a “rustbelt” state, and was told my whole life how Americans are too stupid any lazy as compared to asian and mexican workers, while teaching those same people, and building machinery to send to their countries. At the same time, I was told that I make too much money for providing those services to my employer, while I watched my employers making record profits, while claiming poverty, and shedding US employees like a biblical plague.
That same scenario has played itself out in Wisconsin, and that lesson isn't lost on the people there.
Walker is from there; he's probably witnessed it first-hand.
Wisconsin has (had) a lot of heavy industry, just like the rustbelt state that I came from. It's good to here that a candidate is willing to put the interests of Americans first.
Yes make that Leftard moron.
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