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Posted on 04/19/2015 1:34:57 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
p class="zn-body__paragraph">Washington (CNN)Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker endorsed a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants during a private dinner with Republican leaders in New Hampshire two weeks ago, backing away from the more hard-line position he has staked out in public and obscuring where he stands on the hot-button issue.
At a March 13 dinner at the Copper Door Restaurant in Bedford organized by New Hampshire GOP Chairwoman Jennifer Horn, Walker, a likely candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, was asked how he would address the problem of roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States.
After he declared that securing the United States border with Mexico is "our first priority," Walker said that undocumented immigrants now residing in the country could "secure their citizenship" as long as they "get in the back of line" and wait like anyone else applying for citizenship.
READ: Walker flap exposes GOP rift on Iowa's sacred status
The comments, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, were relayed to CNN by a Republican briefed on the dinner who did not want to be identified.
During a question-and-answer session, Walker said that undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States should not be deported, the Republican source said.
Though Walker once supported a path to citizenship as part of comprehensive immigration overhaul, his New Hampshire comments are at odds with more recent assurances that he opposes what he calls "amnesty" for undocumented immigrants. Walker admitted in a Fox News interview earlier this month that he changed his position on the issue.
The newly-reported comments are also in conflict with the sentiments of many conservatives who hold sway in Republican primaries and
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Does Walker want to join the Rubio, Corpus, Jeb side?
Bttt
He is now finished. First I learn he goes to homosexual “Wedding” and now he is an amnesty freak. Bye Bye Scotty.
What other positions will he reverse when its too late for voters to do anything about it?
The WSJ reported the citizenship comment and someone who was present at the meeting debunked it. Walker probably did, however, leave room for some of those here illegally to gain legal status. Legal status is not citizenship, of course.
This is a month-old article on an issue that’s been hashed over here already. Earlier someone posted a two month old one covering Steve Diece also ragging on Walker.
Nothing new to report?
But no amnesty. And pay for any expenses incurred.
/johnny
Could be a fake report.
What's wrong with that? A path to citizenship is IN THE CONSTITUTION! Seems like a reasonable approach tome.
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
...after flop comes flip...followed by a bigger flop.
He was finished with me since january but welcome to the party pal!
There IS a pathway - ya didn’t follow it. Now gth outta here you arrogant bastards... and take the politicians with you.
After he declared that securing the United States border with Mexico is "our first priority," Walker said that undocumented immigrants now residing in the country could "secure their citizenship" as long as they "get in the back of line" and wait like anyone else applying for citizenship.Allahpundit explains:What's wrong with that? A path to citizenship is IN THE CONSTITUTION! Seems like a reasonable approach tome.
Sincere border hawks know that there’s no meaningful distinction between supporting legalization and supporting citizenship. If illegals win the right to stay in the U.S. and work, political pressure from Democrats and demographic pressure from Latino voters will build on Congress to grant them a path to citizenship eventually. In fact, for an aspiring GOP presidential nominee, it’s arguably dumber to support legalization without citizenship than to suck it up and call for citizenship too. By withholding citizenship from illegals, you leave yourself open to the charge that you want them stuck in perpetual second-class status. That won’t earn Walker the goodwill he’s seeking from Latino voters; meanwhile, his (alleged) support for legalization and his ridiculous slipperiness on this subject is costing him goodwill among conservatives. If you’re going to pander to a key voting bloc, choose one and pander your ass off. Don’t try this ridiculous straddle where you try to make amnesty fans and border hawks happy by splitting the baby and supporting legalization but not citizenship. Trying to please everyone usually means pleasing no one.Actually, there’s another punchline here. Assuming Horn is right and that Walker’s new position is legalization without citizenship, that means he’s engaging in the same sort of amnesty pander as — ta da — his chief rival, Jeb Bush. Remember, Jeb also claims that he opposes citizenship for adult illegals (although not for DREAMers), which is his own crude attempt to blunt attacks on his immigration position from the right. No one believes that Bush 45 would hold the line on that once in office, though; Jeb saying he opposes citizenship is exactly as credible as Obama saying in 2008 that he opposes gay marriage. If in fact Scott Walker’s new position is what Horn says, i.e. pro-legalization but anti-citizenship, then I suspect he came to that position for no better reason than that it’s also Jeb’s position, which means the issue will be more or less neutralized if the race eventually turns into a “Bush versus Walker” one-on-one. And if instead Jeb flames out and Marco Rubio supplants him as the great establishment hope, Walker can then argue that Rubio’s more of an amnesty fan than he himself is. After all, Rubio’s Gang of Eight bill endorsed a path to citizenship. And Scott Walker very deeply opposes such things, don’tcha know.
Exit question I’d never thought I’d ask: Among Bush, Christie, Walker, and Rubio, the establishment’s fab four, is Rubio actually the most trustworthy on immigration? Good lord.
Vote Cruz.
I try to keep an open mind. He was getting all this rino build up and I had hope but he is just another quivering ganglia.
He’ll make a fine VP.
> He is now finished. First I learn he goes to homosexual “Wedding” and now he is an amnesty freak. Bye Bye Scotty.
There is one clear choice to fix the mess we are in and that is Cruz...
yeah no. I DONT want to be one of those who says he’s staying home if so and so wins the primary (although I respect those who do). But right now it would be so hard to vote for anyone but Cruz. I WANT to be able to vote for Walker or in an emergency, Rubio.
The more candidates fighting over Jeb’s consituency the better. I hope conservative voters are noticing Walker’s contortions.
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