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Politico 2/18/15 "....The Wisconsin governor will likely face questions about immigration as he steps up his pre-campaign appearances in early voting states; he’s scheduled to appear in Iowa and New Hampshire in March. Walker has not explicitly positioned himself alongside his party’s immigration hardliners despite appearing at Iowa Rep. Steve King’s summit in Des Moines in January, and he went as far as to tell POLITICO in 2013 that he supported a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants provided “people who are in line right now have first preference.”

His record on providing in-state tuition to illegal immigrants is also likely to come under scrutiny. In 2001, Walker, at the time a state assemblyman, voted for a budget bill that included a provision to grant in-state tuition costs at state colleges to undocumented immigrants who graduated from Wisconsin high schools, under specific residency circumstances. However, Walker had earlier voted to remove that provision from the budget; it was reintroduced during a conference of the state senate and assembly.

The provision was ultimately vetoed by Republican Gov. Scott McCallum. Walker himself repealed Wisconsin’s in-state tuition policy, approved in 2009, when he became governor in 2011.

Walker’s history of dealing with immigration issues has already drawn some attention. Last week, a National Review Online report pointed to his 2002 signing of a Milwaukee County resolution supporting “comprehensive immigration reform that will provide greater opportunity for undocumented working immigrants to obtain legal residency,” though Walker’s staff told the site this resolution was “stripped of references to amnesty before passage.”