Posted on 04/21/2015 5:50:12 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
"....This development, perhaps one of if not the biggest of the 2016 presidential campaign so far, comes as Walker has taken a commanding lead in polls in all three of the first GOP primary states: Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
The reason why this development is so significant is that the two establishment-backed candidates, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, both have an in-depth understanding of the immigration issue and come down on the side that supports special interests’ desire for a massive increase in legal immigration that hurts American workers.
Meanwhile, Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rand Paul (R-KY)—who like Walker make up the more grassroots conservative side of the field—don’t really weigh in on the legal side of the immigration issue. So as Walker continues to gain traction as a potential candidate, and readies himself for a launch, it’s quite clear he’s making a significant effort to learn what he now clearly understands is one of the most under-appreciated angles of the jagged razor-edge issue of immigration—the angle that polling shows can help him clear the GOP field and easily eliminate Rubio and Bush, whose pro-open borders positions stand against American workers....... Scott Walker Lays Out Pro American Worker Stance on Immigration
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
June 27, 2011: Walker Revokes In-state Tuition For Undocumented Students Attending Univ And Colleges In Wisconsin "- On Sunday, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) signed his two-year 2011-2013 budget, which included ending in-state tuition for undocumented students attending public universities and colleges. In-state tuition for undocumented students was approved two years ago by former Governor Jim Doyle (D) after the Hispanic community struggled for 10 years to pass it."...
March 1, 2015: Fox News: Chris Wallace interviews Scott Walker:
".....WALKER: And my view has changed. I'm flat out saying it. I'm -- candidates can say that. Sometimes they don't. I'm saying my --
WALLACE: So, you've changed from 2013?
WALKER: Absolutely. I look at the problems we've experienced for the last few years. I've talked to governors on the border and others out there. I've talked to people all across America.
And the concerns I have is that we need to secure the border. We ultimately need to put in place a system that works. A legal immigration system that works.
And part of doing this is put the onus on employers, getting them E-Verify and tools to do that. But I don't think you do it through amnesty.".....
March 2015:“We strongly dispute this account. Governor Walker has been very clear that he does not support amnesty and believes that border security must be established and the rule of law must be followed. His position has not changed, he does not support citizenship for illegal immigrants, and this story line is false,” she announced in an email to journalists Thursday afternoon.”
“I made it clear that for me, if somebody wants to be a citizen, they need to go back to their country of origin, get in line, no preferential treatment,” Walker said. “In terms of what to do beyond that, again, that’s something we got to work with Congress on.”
I want to trust him, but—find it hard to believe that any GOPer can resist the temptation of amnesty.
The border MUST be secured.
Like hell he does!
Cruz!!
Long before Walker had his came to Jesus I’m running for President and don’t believe in amnesty anymore moment, Ted Cruz position was clear.
Ted has always been for secure the border first, then we decide what to do with the rest, but any illegals left will never receive citizenship or be able to vote.
If it’s taken Walker this long to understand that we should secure the border and give no path to citizenship, then what else does he not know. I don’t want to gamble with what he still needs to be schooled on in foreign policy. I’d rather he just keep learning at the State level.
...and deportations need to be second priority after secure border. Get rid of the third world.
No amounting of repeating all this will change the fact that Walker believes in amnesty, that is in legalizing illegal aliens. He wants a pathway, not deportation. Give it up, he is GOPe and no different than Bush III and Rubio.
I’m sure you will keep repeating it.
Lol
Don’t let facts stop you.
If he chooses enforcement he will disappoint the Koch brothers.
“...then we decide what to do with the rest...”
That statement is another way of saying “amnesty”.
So if Walker beats Cruz in the primary, will you still vote, or stay home?
You captured my feelings, exactly.
Well lets see how Walker does if and when he ever announces for President and starts taking the heat like Cruz and Paul are doing. I’m already starting to get a gag reflex from having him jammed down my throat.
Cruz fans: You have to get him to oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (also hugely promoted by Rand, knifing his own father in the back.) The TPPA would give President Obama the authority to negotiate with Viet Nam, Mexico, Brunei, Malaysia, Peru, Chile and Japan to allow those foreign nations to set US Immigration law. Congress would still have to approve the deal, but it could not be amended or filibustered, so whatever he offers would be virtually certain to pass.
Why do I have to find these horrifying things on Free Republic. Why isn’t media reporting it!! the mainstream stations and papers!!! this is treason. Are you sure it gives foreign governments a say in our immigration law? Cruz supports it as of now. He will get fifty emails from me and a lost vote if this is all true.
FOUL!!!
You’ve taken statements out of context to make Walker look like he’s contradicting himself. In the Fox News Chris Wallace interview, when he says he opposes a pathway to citizenship, he is acknowledging that he HAS changed his position since his days as Milwaukee County Executive.
The Wall Street Journal then came out with a purely invented lie that Walker had privately told supporters that he had changed his position again; the Breitbart story is about him denying that he has changed his position BACK.
Walker used to support a Pathway to Citizenship (tm: GOP-e for Amnesty). If that makes him unsupportable to you, I understand any suspicions as to the sincerity of his conversion. God knows we’ve had too many Republicans lying about opposing Amnesty (Bush, McCain, Paul, Rubio, etc.). But make THAT argument; don’t use tricky selective out-of-context statements to make Walker seem like he’s said things he hasn’t said.
Ted Cruz so far is only supporting the Trade Promotion Authority, not the actual final agreement, but if the Trade Promotion Authority is granted, the final agreement MUST be voted on, CANNOT be amended, CANNOT be blocked, CANNOT be filibustered. It is virtually guaranteed to pass. I like Ted Cruz a LOT. I’m hoping he can simply be woken up to the dangers of this bill. (He *is* only a freshman, after all.) This is what NumbersUSA has said about TPA:
NumbersUSA is opposing the corporate lobbies, Pres. Obama and Republican congressional leaders who together are trying to pass a Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) bill that would likely lead to cutting the American people out of future decisions about certain flows of foreign workers.
We have a chance for victory primarily because most Democrats in Congress appear ready to side against Pres. Obama and for American workers. We need to work to hold as many Democrats as possible while creating a majority against the bill by persuading enough Republicans to side against the corporate lobbies and for American workers.
We have sent notices to every Member of Congress that read:
NumbersUSA will score a vote for Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) as a vote against American workers.
President Obama has made it abundantly clear that he believes he has virtually unfettered authority to change U.S. immigration law. It should not be surprising, therefore, that his administration is attempting to use the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement to commit America to immigration increases that Congress has neither debated nor approved. Despite a U.S. labor force participation rate that is at its lowest level since 1978, President Obama wants to use the TPP to further reduce the jobs available to U.S. workers and instead reserve certain jobs for foreign workers under the agreement. It is indefensible that Congress would now consider surrendering even more of its authority over immigration to this President in order to fast track a trade agreement that will harm American workers, and the text of which Congress has not even seen. Therefore, NumbersUSA will score a vote for TPA as a vote for continued executive overreach and a vote against American workers.
Vote NO on TPA
Committees in both chambers are set to vote on this any day. A bill could arrive on the floor of the Senate and House soon after.
Why is NumbersUSA, an organization that deals only with immigration issues, involved in a complicated battle over trade policy?
Hundreds of organizations of all kinds of ideologies and interests (unions, environmental, national sovereignty, civil liberties, populist and more) are opposing the trade bill for many different reasons.
OUR REASON: The consequence of passing fast-track trade authority is that any President can much more easily ram through international trade agreements that expand guest worker programs without any public debate.
That’s what happened under Pres. Bush during the five years he was given fast-track trade authority. His Administration secretly negotiated trade agreements that guaranteed the opportunity for other countries to send certain numbers of their workers to take U.S. jobs. Congress was not allowed to amend the agreements in any way. It either had to approve the whole thing or to reject it entirely and throw international trade concerns into a tizzy.
Once a flow of foreign workers is included in a trade treaty, that takes away the ability of future White Houses and Congresses to change those numbers. Instead of the officials elected by the American people having control over immigration and foreign-worker policies, international courts basically are given control over the work visas written into trade agreements.
Our Constitution gives Congress authority over how many immigrants and work authorizations to approve each year.
Our Constitution doesn’t give that authority to the President, but fast-track trade legislation essentially does.
Our Constitution doesn’t give foreign powers and entities the authority over U.S. work permits to foreign workers, but fast-track trade authority essentially does.
In 2007, Congress declined to renew the fast-track trade authority for Presidents, allowing it to expire.
In 2003 in reaction to the Bush Administration including immigration in trade agreements, Congress objected with a strongly worded resolution that was approved UNANIMOUSLY. The resolution began:
Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that (1) trade agreements are not the appropriate vehicle for enacting immigration-related laws or modifying current immigration policy; and
(2) future trade agreements to which the United States is a party and the legislation implementing the agreements should not contain immigration-related provisions.
The U.S. Trade Representative and the Executive Branch have been on notice since 2003 that they do not have the authority to negotiate immigration provisions in free trade agreements.
Nonetheless, the Obama Administration has been doing just that with the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement that is expected to come up soon.
Here is what was reported this week in The Hill newspaper:
TPP’s provisions are largely secret but, according to Curtis Ellis of the American Jobs Alliance, the U.S. Trade Representative revealed that “temporary entry” guest worker visas are a “key feature” of the pact. Ellis said that Obama Administration previously used the U.S.-South Korea trade pact to expand the length of time a L-1 visa holder can work in the U.S. That pact is viewed as a model for negotiating the TPP.
NumbersUSA and its national network of citizen activists were often part of coalitions opposing the Bush abuses of trade agreements. And we were in the middle of pressures that led to the congressional pushback in 2003.
Remaining consistent, our network today is mobilized to stop Obama abuses of trade agreements that would guarantee that certain numbers of U.S. jobs may not be held by American workers.
ROY BECK is President & Founder of NumbersUSA
“Long before Walker had his came to Jesus I’m running for President and don’t believe in amnesty anymore moment, Ted Cruz position was clear.”
Living in Minnesota [next to Wisconsin], I can tell you that the open border is not one of the priorities of most of the citizens here as we are not that close to it. Only those of us who are: either politically active and knowledgeable or ; those of us who have relatives living along the border - are aware of the disasters going on down there.
Gov. Scott Walker had enough on his plate to deal with all the union thugs from Chicago and other leftist places coming into his state. They trashed the Wisconsin capitol building behaving not unlike the occupy Wall street idiots.
So, if he now says that after visiting the border areas and speaking with the Republican governors down there, I can believe that he could change his beliefs on the subject.
I have a sister in Green Valley, AZ. Nearly every night illegals are running through the yards of the GV citizens. And she says there have been frequent discoveries of dead people in the dessert areas - people who died from dehydration and heat prostration.
So, I think Walker should be given the benefit of the doubt regarding his change of heart on the handling of this issue.
For the sake of our younger citizens and the strength and survival of our beloved country, the border must be secured first! Then, if a path to citizenship is drawn up, let it demand certain things: speaking English; being employed; getting educated, paying taxes, not felons, etc.. Unfortunately, because of the numbers of illegals, it will not be possible to deport/expel all of them - and some of them will surely qualify to begin the citizenship process. Any laws that allow this must be well defined and enforced so that we can gain good citizens who are contributing to building up the country and not diminishing it by turning it into a third world cesspool.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3281282/posts
Also linked in that thread: Trade agreement is a Trojan horse for Obama's immigration agenda
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