Posted on 02/02/2015 4:25:11 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Via the Corner, a perfectly empty non-answer from his guest shot on “This Week” yesterday — but worth blogging anyway. As I write this, with more than 90,000 votes tallied, Walker’s crushing the rest of the field in the Drudge Report’s online poll. He’s at 46 percent; Ted Cruz, who’s in second place, is at 14 percent. It’s well within the realm of possibility that the GOP race boils down quickly next January to Walker versus Bush.
So this is a guy whose every pronouncement on this subject is worth paying to, especially since his support for a path to citizenship for illegals is shaping up to be his biggest liability on the right in the primaries. (Amazingly, Martha Raddatz didn’t ask him about that during their exchange.) Obviously he’s going to “evolve” on this issue. But how far? Let’s flag this as the starting point so that we can track it as it happens.
Two points. One: He says he’s not for amnesty, his citizenship stance notwithstanding, but that’s not a new soundbite for Walker. “Amnesty” means many things to many people; to the Gang of Eight, for instance, the fact that illegals would be forced to meet certain requirements (paying back taxes, etc) before qualifying for citizenship meant that their plan wasn’t “amnesty.” Walker’s been insisting for more than a year that he doesn’t support “amnesty” either even though he does support citizenship and liberalizing the rules for legal immigration. Two: He’s quick to tell Raddatz that he’ll lay out his own immigration plan eventually if he becomes a candidate, which is his way of saying “don’t ask me anything too specific right now.” Listening to him here, you would think he didn’t have firm opinions on immigration yet beyond some basic principles like “secure the border.” But that’s not so.
Watch him field a question on immigration from 2013 in the second clip below and note what he says about border security at around 1:30. For Walker, securing the border is less a matter of building a fence or hiring 10,000 new Border Patrol agents than it is about relaxing the rules for legal admission to the U.S. His view seems to be that if you want to come here to work, it should be very easy for you to do so — easy enough that you wouldn’t even think of crossing the border illegally, as the legal route would be just as simple. Think you’ll be seeing this in a Ted Cruz attack ad six months from now? I do.
Again, define amnesty.
What, he was before he wasn’t?
well he doesnt want to call it that.
he would rather deflect/redirect on this one altogether.
Sounds very emphatic, his mind must be made up.
Exactly.
Here's my definition:
anything that results in an illegal alien benefiting from the act of entering the US unlawfully.
I liked him, but then I heard he didn’t go to college.
So now i LOVE him.
Then every viable candidate is for amnesty, as I don’t hear anyone calling for forced deportation. Of course, that is pretty much impossible in the current political climate. Yes, Roosevelt and Eisenhower gave it a go, but remember, FDR was able to put hundreds of thousands of American citizens in concentration camps just because of their ancestry and had the FBI watching those of the other two enemy ethnicities like a hawk. No one could pull that off today, witness the clout that our current enemies, the Muslims, have here.
actually, he went to college but did not graduate
I think we went to college (Marquette), but he didn’t finish.
He was against it before he was for it.
He’s against amnesty like Chucky Schmucky Schumer is, apparently.
They won't say so, but, yes, that is true by my definition.
... as I don’t hear anyone calling for forced deportation.
Forced deportation is a straw man argument. Force isn't required (although I'm not against it). We just need to remove the benefits that attract the invaders.
Here's my plan:
Post that everywhere you can, including Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus. Send it to Michelle Malkin and Steve King, too. Thanks!
This seems to say he is for amnesty. People that think Walker’s against it are fooling themselves. He might be against it NOW, now that he’s running for President.
No, he’s just not for deporting people. It’s not amnesty if you don’t use the word, apparently.
Will people shut up about it now? Oh hell naw!
My immigration policy would be more like an emigration/immigration policy.
Secure the border make is so as many as you can muster self deport. It would take a week.
points are added up by what you contribute (tax and pension reform would be a sales tax and no ss first)
Any illegal gets a number those without numbers are deported with family when discovered. harboring an outlaw would be punishable by a $100,000 fine for each occurrence court fights ensue but by securing the border and actually send them back. they will most likely never return. I might do a $10,000 payment to volunteer to deport.
every who stays employer tracks his payments. 25% goes to the fund. if he gets a number he can’t leave and can never vote. we have his 25% bond.
Anyone on the dole has two years to start to pay in. if not they will be deported. after five years they need to pay in what is payed out. then they are on their own. They get $10,000 for each family member and a valid entry visa to any country of their choice. Half baked but what the hay. All by admin law. Precedent is hell.
That's it?
And do what about it?
Has he called for sweeps and mass deportations and secured borders? Did he call for elimination 60 percent of the 100,000 IRS employee positions to pay for it? With tens of millions here illegally, why would he not say and demand this for starters?
What about the endless flood of millions of foreigners coming in legally, who are not even needed, many of which are questionable. What did he say about that?
Is there audio of him or any other candidate saying/supporting these common sense measures?
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