Posted on 03/26/2015 12:19:52 PM PDT by Rockitz
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker may be on the verge of burning himself down before he actually gets started, given what is now becoming something of a circus regarding his actual stance on immigration.
According to this new Wall Street Journal report, it’s quite possible a supporter of Jeb Bush, or another candidate went to the media regarding Walker’s recent comments at a private GOP dinner, it doesn’t matter. With three sources now (anonymously) on record, he appears to have Walkered himself right into this one. If his name becomes synonymous with waffling on a critical issue like immigration, his next nickname may be toast!
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker told a private dinner of New Hampshire Republicans this month that he backed the idea of allowing undocumented immigrants to stay in the country and to eventually become eligible for citizenship, a position at odds with his previous public statements on the matter.
Given the history here, it may now be impossible to know precisely where Walker stands, with supporters left to assume the worst — that he’s just another open borders Republican — becoming the default across the conservative grassroots whose support he needs to win.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
It is arbitrary if a single limited criteria is used as the only decision maker. for instance you sir should lose your driver's license for speeding. You broke the law. Don't deny it, at some point in your life you have exceeding the speed limit in violation of the law and put other peoples live at risk by exceeding the deemed safe speed limit. The fact that you haven't been caught does not change the fact that you are a lawbreaker. How's that for arbitrary.
Since the only rational way to bring the system into legal control is to write new laws expressing the exact requirements limitations and controls that must be in place, enforcing immigration laws would be part of the fix
But they are eligible, thats the point.<\i>
Only because because the system is operating outside legal control. Nothing prevents a law restricting government assistance as a condition for legal residence status other than irrational resistance to any effort at resolving the issue by branding it as amnesty.
Tell you what, control the border, get unemployment down to 4%, get every municipality, town, city, every state and the federal government to stop giving them benefits and then we can have a actual discussion of granting them legal status.
Aside from the unemployment factor which really is controlled by other issues than immigration, you have stated my position as being the one that must be met yet are arguing against it. I fail to see the logic.
I was going to take the time to write a coherent response but decided against it when I noted there is not a single rational thought in your response and I would be wasting my time.
Not really—this is exactly the position Walker was stating to the press within the last two years. It is only now, at the start of his primary campaign, that he’s trying to hide behind the usual GOPe fig leaves: it won’t be immediate, “fine”-free citizenship, so he denies that it is “amnesty”. Also, he starts giving a little lip service about “securing the border” (despite having said he’d allow anyone from any country come here legally, so there would be no incentive for anyone to enter illegally anyway.)
Your admission of incapability is accepted.
Walker Denies Remarks Indicating Change in Immigration Stance
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3272658/posts
Rand Paul's immigration speech...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reformLatinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
Of course he does.
There have been too many witnesses, both from the pro- and anti-Walker crowd at the speech, for me to believe he didn’t make some statement on the subject. They are just differing slightly on the nuances of what he said exactly.
It should be interesting when the inevitable video/audio taken by audience members comes out.
Walker is not my first choice, but I still say, let me hear the audio. Ok, I know there isn't one, but I'm not sure I trust the so-called witnesses. Every candidate, except Jeb, the anointed one, will be subjected to false accusations and a lot of phony stories, most likely coming from the Republican liberals.
Most likely coming from the Demogogic Party, their media shills, and demagogues like the Democrat in all but name, Rand Paul.
“The amendment that I introduced removed the path to citizenship, but it did not change the underlying work permit from the Gang of Eight,” he said during a recent visit to El Paso. Cruz also noted that he had not called for deportation or, as Mitt Romney famously advocated, self-deportation.
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Yes, I read that, which confirms he is in favor of amnesty, if it’s true. Not looking good so far.
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