Posted on 04/25/2015 9:59:08 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
".....In a recent Washington Examiner interview, Cruz promoted legal immigration and criticized Walker for suggesting that he supported limiting legal immigration if it has a negative impact on the wages of American workers.
"When we talk about what should be the policy on legal immigration, it should be driven by the economic impact. And number one on the list of priorities should be: What is the impact on American workers and American wages?" Walker said.
"If unemployment is high and labor participation is low, why would we want to open the door and flood the market with more workers at a time when our own people here are looking for work?"
Walker said that we are a country of immigrants, but we are also a country of laws. He asserted that we should be looking out for the American worker in everything we do.
"From immigration to tax policy to welfare reform and everything, I’m going to stand with the American worker."
Watch the full "Fox and Friends Weekend" interview [6:00]
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No one is going to go into the weeds to find that out.
I guess the answer to my question is, Walker didn’t vote.
That only works with stupid people. Happily there are not to many stupid people here.
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“No one is going to go into the weeds to find that out.
I guess the answer to my question is, CRUZ didn’t vote.”
I agree with you. I just don’t trust Walker fully-—yet! Bob
Don’t be ignorant and spread misinformation. Enough people truly on the other side spreading misinformation.
I agree with you. I just don’t trust Walker fully-—yet! Bob
EXACTLY!
Sounds like a straw-man argument, I haven’t hear Cruz say he is in favor of unfettered legal immigration.
Good strategy by Walker though, I like them both though.
Don’t like seeing them attack each other though. To me, this is negative for Walker because he is breaking the Reagan rule #1.
Don’t talk ill of another Republican.
And Walker didn’t notice that his state had been colonized to the point that a foreign group calling itself Voices of the Frontier (of Mexico) has been operating in his state since 2002 when the real frontier of Mexico is many miles away.
I’m glad he finally woke up to the devastation that illegal aliens are causing this nation.
I hope he’s not just saying this to get elected and then reverting to his previous position of amnesty.
His pals Ryan and Preibus are cheap labor importers.
Ted Cruz picked the wrong hill then he decided to take on Walker's current immigration policy. His current policy is a winner with American voters and workers. I like Cruz, but if he is going to take on Walker on immigration, he'd be better off painting Walker as a flip flopper and untrustworthy on the issue.
I think this was a good populist move, because the real problem is legal immigration. However, it doesn’t really impact “the American worker” (understood as basic laborer) very much, because the downturn in illegal immigration, which has been so reduced that construction companies in my area could no longer find laborers and that fields were going unpicked, has not been filled by a surge of Americans wanting these jobs. Most Americans at that level are already making a decent living on a combination of welfare and unpunished crime, so why should they work for a living?
What has happened is that this has spurred automation. Fields in California (and soon in Florida) are being harvested entirely by machines now, including delicate crops such as strawberries, and even fast food places are automating. The reduction in legal Latin American immigration (thanks to Obama, who gave their quotas to people from “Muslim lands”) and better border enforcement has meant that stoop laborers have been disappearing, and as they did, companies simply compensated by developing robots that can do the job. And they developed them very quickly, because the technology was already there and just needed refining.
So I think Walker’s strategy was an attempt to make a populist pitch for a consideration of the real problem, which is the fact that the current legal immigration policy simply does not favor the United States. I’ve been saying this all along.
Legal immigration is the problem. Illegal immigration is an enforcement problem, not a policy problem.
But at the same time, it is also related to the policy problem, because immigration from Latin America that was once legal suddenly became illegal after Obama took office. One of his very first moves was, via executive order, to reduce the number of legal immigrants from Latin America and give that quota to people from “Muslim lands.” So suddenly legals became illegals.
And the reason I say that the American worker really isn’t involved in this is that the new immigrants won’t be competing, because they are brought in and not expected to work. They immediately go onto the welfare rolls or special progams established for them. The Tsarnaevs, for example, were legal immigrants although they had not always bothered to keep up with the paper work, and they lived mostly on welfare and crime. Occasionally they’d get marginal jobs and they were even attending college, thanks to Uncle Sam, but like many “immigrants” from these places, their fundamental hatred of the US and the West prevented them from doing anything except festering in their own insanity and dreaming of taking over the US for themselves.
So what needs to be discussed is what the United States needs in LEGAL immigration overall, and also, there has to be an honest review of the track records of the immigrant groups we have welcomed. Somalis? A number of terrorist attempts or plans. Chechens? Likewise, and some of the Chechens have actually carried them out. And we won’t even go into the huge number of Pakistani and Afghani plots that have failed, thanks to their incompetence.
The only common thread is Islam, of course, but I guess we can’t discuss that.
In the early days of formal immigration, when you came through Ellis Island, you just had to have the address of a family member who would put you up, a modest amount of cash in your pocket, and at least a lead on a job. Oh, and not have TB...
Nowadays, you don’t have to have any of the above, and it’s probably considered discriminatory to test for communicable diseases. And anyway, if you’re in the politically correct group, the only way you’re going to threaten the American worker is by making his taxes rise since you don’t plan to work anyway and he will pay to support you.
That’s what we need to discuss.
So the final vote to confirm Lynch was more important than stopping the vote to proceed with the final vote?
If you two know what cloture is, why are you spreading misinformation about Ted Cruz?
Sorry, but he didn’t show up and that’s a fact. I don’t know why he didn’t, because it was assumed all along that he wasn’t going to vote for her. So it cost him more not to appear than it would have cost him to appear. Bad move.
I truly expected more from you.
Not when you slander Cruz on the Lynch vote.
If he fails to seriously walk that one back, my list just got shorter by one name!
Sorry, but he didn’t show up and that’s a fact. I don’t know why he didn’t, because it was assumed all along that he wasn’t going to vote for her. So it cost him more not to appear than it would have cost him to appear. Bad move.
I would advise against holding your breath if you think this issue will cause Cruz one moment of discomfort.
If you can tell me how I slandered Sen. Cruz I will apologize.
Cruz knows his supporters are smart enough to know that the vote that counted is in the cloture
He’s the anti panderer
Fox News more than willing to foment unrest among the Cruz and Walker Supporters?
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