Step Up on Immigration

More than a few Republican graybeards are panicking about how the rise of Donald Trump is pulling at the seams of the GOP’s big tent. However, the Republican establishment itself has played a big role in creating this particular Frankenstein’s monster.

In September 2014, I found myself in Lexington, Nebraska, population 10,230. I was at a campaign stop with the soon-to-be-elected junior senator from Nebraska, and it seemed as if voters in this small town wanted to talk about one issue in particular. Just a few weeks earlier—right before school was to start—the federal government had showed up in Lexington and dropped off 11 unaccompanied Central American children who had been scooped up in the recent border crisis. The handoff was done with little warning and without any apparent concern about how the folks in a small town with a small budget and limited resources were going to take care of these kids. The Obama White House’s lawless immigration policy had created an avoidable humanitarian crisis, and heartland voters were being given no choice but to deal with the consequences.

Despite the very real pain and costs associated with decades of federal neglect of immigration policy, both parties have treated voters’ legitimate concerns about the issue with disdain.

It’s easy to see why voters have become radicalized on the issue. Republicans have long mouthed platitudes about enforcing immigration laws, with little to no follow-through. Democrats, eager to play identity politics, argue that border controls are essentially racist......

Until the GOP establishment convinces voters it’s serious about immigration, Trump will dominate the debate. That’s because Trump is saying something voters want to hear on an issue the Republican party has been needlessly afraid to address.

Republicans have long mouthed platitudes about enforcing immigration laws, with little to no follow-through.

Beyond controlling our borders, who has done (or even tried) to remove magnets?

January 3, 2011: - Walker assumes Office of Governor of Wisconsin.

June 27, 2011: Walker Revokes In-state Tuition For Undocumented Students Attending Univ And Colleges In Wisconsin [The ONLY gov/state that has]"- 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 28, 2015: “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.”

May 26, 2015 - Breitbart: Exclusive — Walker: We’d Be Sending in Navy to Stop Illegals if They Were Swarming Our Sea Ports Like They Do Southern Border

June 20, 2015: 5:00 video Scott Walker Confronted by Undocumented Immigrant Family - "Everyone must follow the laws" (watch it).

Rand Paul's immigration speech
...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.

Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.

Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.

Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.

If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...

This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.

Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reform
Latinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...
[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]

Walker can't make up his mind about the 14th Amendment, anchor babies and deporting ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS THAT HAVE ILLEGAL BABIES on American soil.

Walker went squishy this past week when he changed his position three times in three days.

He's for it, he's against it, he won't tell us his position until the new moon in November, 2016.

Wifey, Walker went linda on you, shame on him.

Notice the sophistry. First this:

“Republicans have long mouthed platitudes about enforcing immigration laws, with little to no follow-through.”

That, of course, is true.

Then he writes:

“Until the GOP establishment convinces voters it’s serious about immigration, Trump will dominate the debate. That’s because Trump is saying something voters want to hear...”

So it is OKAY for the GOP establishment to say what voters want to hear, with the emphasis obviously on merely saying what voters want to hear. Does anyone really believe that the GOP establishment has, from the heart, turned on a dime over immigration?

Eric Can’tor/won’t tried to lie his way into another term and we booted his lying weasel ass to the curb.

The Cheap Labor Express candidates:

¡Yeb!
Grahamnesty
Rubberio
NJFatBoy
Kasich
Pataki
Huckster
Paul
Fiorina
Walker

All of these people have expressed support for amnesty,which is death to America

“Until the GOP establishment convinces voters it’s serious about immigration"

Not.

Possible.

They have squandered all credibility and good will.

they may as well all take Jeb's position, as any other position will be seen a LIES.

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