Posted on 04/25/2015 8:47:32 AM PDT by Mariner
After giving a version of his stump speech to a mostly gray-haired crowd in Iowa, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin was pressed on Friday by two twenty-something Republicans about a percolating issue he did not mention: immigration.
Mr. Walker’s apparent hardening on immigration has inspired a flood of reporting and commentary. Most recently he told the radio host Glenn Beck that he favored restricting legal immigration in tough economic times, a position to the right of most other 2016 presidential hopefuls.
He repeated that view Friday after a speech in Cedar Rapids, when Eddie Failor, 24, expressed concern “as a young Republican” that the party must make inroads to new voter blocs, including by supporting a comprehensive overhaul of immigration.
Mr. Walker told Mr. Failor that his top priority would be securing the border. He also said he favored “making sure the legal immigration system is based on making our No. 1 priority to protect American workers and their wages.’’
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He wants to increase H1B visas by 5X.
You kind find the quotes if you look.
There is no illegal alien crisis. It's a fake issue generated by GWB and taken up by both Dems and Republicans funded by big business and/or unions to drum up support for an amnesty. The real issue is a reduction in traditional anti-illegal enforcement measures such as workplace raids and fines levied against employers. It's also insufficient manpower devoted to the southern border. Once these measures are tightened up to Clinton-era (!) levels, both the supply of new illegals and the number of existing illegals will fall, as many are interdicted at the border, leave due to lack of job opportunities or are deported.
Distancing himself from Bush, Rubio and Cruz on immigration is a winner in the primary.
Thwy will have to get at the end of the line and be subject to immigration rules and quotas. What is wrong with that?
The real crisis is in our future. Look at what’s happening in the Mediterranean.
We need employers to be held to account, foreigners off welfare and more deportations.
We have to be able to say illegal aliens aren’t welcome in the US and will not make their home here.
Oh, I agree with you. Walker is a great candidate. It’s just this cycle, I am anti-”bots” this early. The poster who drew my comment for specifics didn’t need them or want them himself, but nearly proposed a Walker coronation, without them.
Walker knows how to move to the middle and attract moderates, or he would never have made it into office in Wisconsin.
Cruz will know, also, how to move to the middle when he has to, but I don’t know if his bots will be able to take it.
The one thing Walker has said that sticks in my mind is his believable statement that he tells voters what he’s going to do from the beginning, and that they won’t like all of it, but then he does exactly what he said he would do. He said, therefore, they learned that he is a man of his word, and that voters know they can trust him.
I liked that, although he can’t possibly be a sitting governor and already have every “i” dotted for his campaign strategy yet, I understand that. Yes, I too like him so much. I just think Cruz is more like me, probably. We’ll see by this fall.
I have heard it time after time, exactly that, from the right. The candidates assume the same mantra, but it’s how they get illegals out of here and back to their country of origin for re-application that I am waiting to hear.
Crickets on the how. to. get. them. out.
This election cycle they aren’t saying that illegals must leave, except for Walker.
How they would do it comes after will they do it. Are illegal aliens to leave or be legalized? If your a GOP candidate for the nomination say it!
imho, illegals will be staying, but the border has some chance of being closed and secured under a Republican prez. That isn’t what they are saying on illegals remaining, but it is probably the reality.
After all, our economy depends on adult workers, not on older retirees, and Anglos have contracepted themselves out of existence on the extinction chart, for the country’s future. I believe this fact is the underlying reason for immigration. It’s just that Obama and Marxists decided to bring in their voters instead of more equal entry.
This “young Republican” is a Jeb Bush and Mark Zuckerberg supporter.
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Ok, and what about Walker. Have some honesty about these things if you want to post something...none of the candidates is perfect.
When you look at the labor participation rate how can you honestly make that argument?
What about him? He has said things like raises in the H1B visa will be conditional on the state of the American worker at the time.
Is this controversial?
If Walker or any Republican runs into 'young' people (paid Soros trolls) with liberal ideas who pretend to be conservatives they should be told to switch parties. There IS a party for people who want illegals here - and it's the Democrat party. If that's what they believe - they need to become democrats.
NO WE DO NOT WANT illegals in our country. Period.
LOL...no, there are more to his positions than just this...research his flip-flopping and we can go from there.
And what if the American worker is fine in January 2017? Will the flood gates open then?
I wasn’t speaking to charts, graphs or participation rates, except reproduction. We (Anglos) are no longer reproducing at a sustainable rate, thanks to birth control and to abortion which now seems to have replaced birth control.
I was saying, in other words, that America has seen it’s best days, back when younger adults entered the work force, with decent salaries and pay plans, and oldsters able to retire with decent retirement arrangements.
All of that ends without meaningful reproduction rates, and the loss is replaced instead with a flood of low wage “workers” into the market and oldsters unable to retire at all and health care sucking up the fiscal oxygen.
The necessary people power will be coming, under Obama, from his type of voter, illegal Mexicans, and an open border for South Americans to flood in, as well.
If we can agree that demographics matter at all, then we have to look around and see that the vacuum will be filled one way or the other. We will be extinct. The USA, however, will not be extinct. Obama has seen to that.
Now back to charts, graphs and politics. All mostly theater. But, go ahead— you were saying.......?
Well, I implied that the vacuum should be filled with Americans that are idle and on entitlements. Not foreigners.
No charts necessary, this is not about economics.
...”this is not about economics.”
Oh, trust me. I believe it is.
It’d be nice if Walker had held the same position in the past as he does now, I agree.
What I want to see is for Cruz to flip flop and come out explicitly for deportation/self-deportation of illegal aliens and against raising the number of H1B visas issued.
Not sure this will happen. He has seemed to be for this measure for quite some time. We shall see
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