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Walker Admits He’s ‘Changed’ View on Immigration
Mediate ^ | 3/1/2015 | Evan McMurray

Posted on 03/01/2015 9:03:18 AM PST by gwgn02

Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace submitted newly-minted 2016 GOP frontrunner Scott Walker to thirteen minutes of sustained questioning about his record and his (mis)statements Sunday morning, the most notable moment of which came when Walker conceded after several minutes of interrogation that he’d “changed” his views on immigration.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2016gopprimary; 2016issues; amnesty; borders; comprehensive; election2016; illegals; immigration; scottwalker; walker2016; wisconsin
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Since you are from WI, we’ll take your opinion with a grain of salt. Extremely partisan. Walker is GOPe.


61 posted on 03/01/2015 10:33:43 AM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Where have you been? We’ve already lost our country. Walker is the best we have right now - but, apparently, not good enough for the purists on here - which means we’ll probably end up with another 8 years of obama 2.0. Some of you on here get on my last nerve.


62 posted on 03/01/2015 10:40:30 AM PST by Catsrus (s)
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To: Catsrus

The GOPe are not winners.


63 posted on 03/01/2015 10:41:39 AM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: VRWC For Truth

I guess that leaves Walker out then since he has won 3 elections in 4 years. He IS a winner.


64 posted on 03/01/2015 10:47:53 AM PST by Catsrus (s)
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To: Rusty0604
There is nothing wrong with changing your view on something after getting more facts and talking to other people. He is not from a southern border State and probably didn’t know at the time the reality on the ground.

If he can't understand the reality on the ground as a Governor, he ain't ready for Prime-Time when it comes to being POTUS.
65 posted on 03/01/2015 10:51:43 AM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

He wasn’t Guv when he made the statement in question, he was a Milwaukee County exec.


66 posted on 03/01/2015 10:56:42 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: gwgn02

This is very telling.

It reinforces my view of why there is a push for this ‘immigration’ crap; it’s like a virus (though more akin to a toxic vaccine).

I really should have written that book...


67 posted on 03/01/2015 10:57:21 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: gwgn02

This is very telling.

It reinforces my view of why there is a push for this ‘immigration’ crap; it’s like a virus (though more akin to a toxic vaccine).

I really should have written that book...


68 posted on 03/01/2015 10:57:21 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: Catsrus

Relax, it’s going to Jeb vs Hillary anyway

Can’t wait for the fun then, it’ll be interesting who the purists are then.


69 posted on 03/01/2015 11:01:34 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace- No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: GBA

From The Hill, July 2013:

Gov. Walker backs citizenship pathway for illegal immigrants

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) says he supports a pathway to citizenship for immigrants living in the country illegally as part of an overhaul of the nation’s immigration system.

“If people want to come here and work hard and benefit, I don’t care whether they come from Mexico or Ireland or Germany or Canada or South Africa or anywhere else,” Walker said Tuesday during an interview with the Daily Herald Media Editorial Board of Wisconsin. “I want them here.”

Walker was then asked about the estimated 11 million immigrants living in the country illegally. The editorial board asked if he could “envision a world where with the right penalties and waiting periods and meet the requirements where those people could get citizenship?”

“Sure,” Walker responded. “I mean I think it makes sense.”

Walker’s comments came roughly a week after the Democratic-controlled Senate passed a bipartisan immigration reform proposal that includes a pathway to citizenship.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/309111-wis-gov-walker-backs-path-to-citizenship-in-immigration-reform-


70 posted on 03/01/2015 11:07:28 AM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: gwgn02

What should bother people about this is that Walker was CLEARLY ON THE SIDE OF AMNESTY a decade ago, even though conservatives were SCREAMING MAD against it.

Walker may not have researched the issue much, considering his position then, but HE CHOSE TO PICK A SIDE - and that side was NOT the side of conservatives. No different than President Bush, back then.

I prefer a candidate that WILL SIDE WITH CONSERVATIVES when not fully up to speed on an issue.


71 posted on 03/01/2015 11:08:23 AM PST by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win.)
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To: Catsrus

Loser. GOPe.


72 posted on 03/01/2015 12:13:19 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: EternalVigilance
Thanks for the info and link.

I do like what Walker has done in Wisconsin, and against all opposition time and again, but what I've understood are/were his positions on Common Core-ruption and illegal immigration have kept me from becoming a Walker for President supporter.

Non-communist/socialist/marxist/progressive American voters have had a rough time since Reagan left.

73 posted on 03/01/2015 12:14:26 PM PST by GBA (Just a hick in paradise)
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To: Vaduz

Walker now supports immigration?


74 posted on 03/01/2015 12:16:08 PM PST by Eva
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To: GBA

Walker does not appear to be a zealot on Common Cause and amnesty, could be convinced to take the right position. This is unlike Bush who is fanatical about amnesty and made it clear he will not change his position.


75 posted on 03/01/2015 12:17:44 PM PST by Jane Austen (Boycott Mexico)
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To: Jane Austen
Time and election pressures will tell and we'll have to wait and see.

Fwiw, there's no way I'd vote for Jeb Bush or Chris Christie and it wouldn't matter what they're running for or who or what they're running against.

I do respect and like Walker's background and success so far, but I'm too jaded by past experience to care about compromise that much any more.

The most recent election and all that's happened since has been an eye opener.

76 posted on 03/01/2015 12:23:54 PM PST by GBA (Just a hick in paradise)
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To: TomGuy

He simply did not want to be put on the spot, trying to prove a negative. I wonder if Rand Paul will be subjected to th same type of questioning about his position on immigration and open borders. Rand Paul is a Third Wayer.


77 posted on 03/01/2015 12:32:53 PM PST by Eva
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To: VRWC For Truth

I’m in WI and Walker has even outdone Tommy Thompson. He is quite possibly, the greatest Governor WI has ever had.


78 posted on 03/01/2015 1:08:49 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: EternalVigilance

Walker says he has changed his position, since then.

I watched him today, say so.


79 posted on 03/01/2015 1:11:41 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html)
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To: gwgn02

So what? It’s what democrats call ‘evolving’... Our guys can ‘grow and evolve’ too. In a year even Jeb will ‘evolve’ or realize he’s in the wrong party and needs to become a democrat.


80 posted on 03/01/2015 1:14:27 PM PST by GOPJ (Comrade Thug - pleae don't hurt me for disagreeing... I lived in a free country once..)
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