kinda like the goathumpers hiding behind women and children while shooting at Israelis... send them all south, adults and their spawn
Posted on 07/20/2015 3:46:00 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Walker handled it pretty much perfectly.
During the summer of 2013, we began to see immigration amnesty activists use the Why do you want to deport my daddy? tactic against Republicans.
The tactic involves sending children to confront candidates — with the video rolling. It all was a set up, in the hope the candidate would do something stupid or mean.
Most famously, Speaker John Boehner was confronted by well-coached children while eating at his usual breakfast spot:
(video at source)
A similar confrontation just happened to Scott Walker, and it was all a set up by a “social justice” activist group seeking to stop deportations.
The Washington Post reports, Scott Walker tells undocumented worker that immigrants must follow the law:
As presidential hopeful Scott Walker toured a farm in this tiny town where he lived as a child, he was confronted by an undocumented worker from Mexico who is living in Wisconsin and demanded to know why Walker does not support President Obama’s plan to give temporary status to some undocumented workers, including parents of children who were born in the United States.
“We’re a nation of laws,” Walker, the Republican governor of Wisconsin, repeatedly told Jose Flores, 38, who was joined by two of his four children, Luis, 7, and Leslie, 13, who had tears rolling down her cheeks throughout the exchange. Flores, who lives in Waukesha and works for a medical supply factory, said he and his wife live in fear of being deported and separated from their children, who he said were all born in the United States….
It was an opportunity for Walker to demonstrate how he calmly fights back against challenges from activists. He was forceful as he told the Flores family that immigrants must follow the rules, but he added, “I completely sympathize with the situation you’re all in and others are in.”
One of the activists, Sam Freeman of Wisconsin’s Voces de la Frontera, cut the governor off and shouted, “So that’s why you want to separate their family?”
The WCF Courier reported that the Voces de la Frontera not only had an activist present, it arranged the confrontation:
Walker further demonstrated his calm political style during a brief meeting meeting in Plainfield with Jose Flores and his children, Leslie, 13, and Luis, 7, about his position on immigration.
Flores traveled from Waukesha, Wis., aided by the immigration advocacy group Voces de la Frontera, to get Walker to explain his opposition to the federal orders that provide immigrants who came here illegally a temporary legal status.
At the 2:55 mark the father has the child ask an obviously rehearsed question:
“Do you want me to come home, come from school and my dad gets reported?” [sic]
(video at source)
“So that’s why you want to separate their family?”
The goal is to shift the blame for the children’s difficult emotional situation from the law-breaker to the law-maker.
Walker handled the confrontation pretty much perfectly.
What the activists want is the Republican candidate either to run away and refuse to engage, or to get nasty or upset.
Walker stayed on a message that both is correct and will play well with the electorate — no one is above the law, not the illegal immigrant nor the President of the United States.
The 2013 confrontations did nothing to advance the amnesty advocates’ agenda. The 2014 elections were a complete blow-out for Republicans.
While I’m not predicting 2016, I am predicting that these contrived confrontations and use of children as political props will backfire on the amnesty advocates — so long as the Republican candidate stays calm and on message.
Because he's an illegal immigrant and by definition, breaking the law. Additionally, he's using a gross misinterpretation of post Civil War Constitutional Amendments and his children as props to get away with it.
Excellent response.
... if your daddy really loved you, he would
1. take you with him
2. not break the law and put you in a difficult position
And if he really cared about breaking up families, he would not have LEFT HIS FAMILY in the country he came from.
It was a set up, that has been confirmed. But the set up was by Voces de la Frontera, which is not a friend of Walker or even of the US. They made news the last few years trying to force a union on a pizza plant where neither the workers or management wanted one. When the workers got sick of the meddling and tried to force a union vote, Voces de la Frontera took it to court and the US Labor board to get the no-vote overruled.
Perhaps we can hope Donald Trump will take the citizen’s arrest approach since he’ll probably be ambushed by these wretched socialists too. That would be too awesome to see.
kinda like the goathumpers hiding behind women and children while shooting at Israelis... send them all south, adults and their spawn
Yea, it does look like that happened...these things DO NOT happen by accident with well-oiled candidates. They CONTROL everything around them. If a bunch of Illegals showed up out of nowhere (unexpected), they’d be dropped off the coast of Argentina, as happened in late 20th Century.
Thanks, OF COURSE it’s a set-up. Walker needs to get his name out and he needs to counter his PRO-AMNESTY HISTORY (although I won’t pile on).
I’m just surprised he would make it this obvious.
>>Why do you want to deport my daddy? tactic against Republicans.<<
“Son, your daddy is a criminal. What do we do with criminals?”
And then go after the company that hired the illegal! (That is where we can be the most effective at reducing the number of illegals - remove the demand for them.)
Broken families are often a consequence of breaking the law.
Apparently, Sam Singleton-Freeman wants us to call him at 414-719-1373. Maybe we can ask him why he hates his fellow Americans so much that he wants to help destroy the American Dream by importing an unlimited amount of immigrants from a third-world country. He’s also hooked into the Catholic SJW scene, so I’m sure he thinks he’s got our Lord on his side.
More poor illegals living in the shadows by standing in front of the cameras every damned time. Where was the local constable to round up the illegals and deport them? They should be afraid of law enforcement. They are breaking the frickin law!!! I have zero sympathy left for this nonsense. None.
Yup, I am sure the folks that hate him were working overtime to help him with this set up.
Sometime the politics pages reach the obsession of the religion pages.
“One of the activists, Sam Freeman of Wisconsin’s Voces de la Frontera, cut the governor off and shouted, “So that’s why you want to separate their family?”
The family will only be separated if the parents choose not to take their children with them when deported. The choice to break the law was the parents. The choice to keep the family intact or not rests with the parents.
Muslim Mass Murderers and American Socialist-progressives have always used and abused children for their anti-American purposes...
The real news is that we're allowed to see it happen.
“Yup, I am sure the folks that hate him were working overtime to help him with this set up...Sometime the politics pages reach the obsession of the religion pages.”
I’m not sure whose side you’re on, but if you’re comparing people that want to control our borders (UNLIKE WALKER) to religious fanatics, you candidate may wind up with about as much support as McCain’s ‘man’, which is Linsey Gram.
fta...“So that’s why you want to separate their family?”
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This is the big lie that the illegals and their supporters are always using to garner sympathy.
Parents are responsible for their minor children, regardless of where they are born.
If parents are illegal and get deported, the children go with them. No separation of the family occurs.
If the kids are anchor babies, they can apply to the US to return to the US as citizens AFTER they reach the age of 18.
Just pointing out the vitriol, fervor, and distortion of facts that is happening on these threads reminds me of the same from the religion threads. A level of un-hingedness that approaches crazy.
Throws them in jail and does not let them work.
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