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A Day Later, Scott Walker Adopts Trump's Policies on Immigration
News Machete ^ | 8/18/2015

Posted on 08/18/2015 11:42:57 AM PDT by conservativejoy

Scott Walker said on Monday for the first time that he supports building a wall at the southern border, and ending birthright citizenship, a day after Donald Trump endorsed the same policies.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) said on Monday that his immigration proposals were "very similar" to those of the real estate magnate, who over the weekend released a tough new plan exclusively focused on enforcement and cracking down on unauthorized immigrants. Walker said that he, too, wanted to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, which is one of Trump's most controversial proposals.

"Earlier in the year, I was on 'Fox News Sunday' and laid out what I thought we should do, which is secure the border, which means build the wall, have the technology, have the personnel to make sure it's safe and secure," Walker said in an interview with Fox News.

The governor and presidential contender was referring to a March interview in which he did not mention a wall, but discussed the need to crack down on illegal immigration more generally.

This is true. As recently as last week in an interview with Breitbart, when asked directly if he supported a border wall, he refused to answer directly, saying only he supported "infrastructure" and "technology" and "personnel". He has never directly said he supported a border wall or fence until today, and he is misrepresenting his past support of it.

In 2013, Walker advocated for "a saner way to let people into the country" rather than focusing only on border security or the construction of a wall to address the status of millions of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S.

"You hear some people talk about border security and a wall and all that," he said at the time. "To me, I don't know that you need any of that if you had a better, saner way to let people into the country in the first place."

He now says he has changed his mind, and argues that the country must first beef up its border security before dealing with undocumented immigrants, a more typical conservative stance.

Walker is now saying he also wants to end birthright citizenship, which has been abused to create "anchor babies". Or does he?

(Asked directly at the Iowa State Fair on Monday if he supported ending birthright citizenship, Mr. Walker said he did but would not say whether that meant he would deport the children of undocumented immigrants.)

Walker also criticized Congress for caving in on Obamacare and not trying to defund amnesty.

In an interview Monday on Glenn Beck’s radio show, Mr. Walker said he agreed with Mr. Beck’s assertion that Republican leaders like Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, “are part of the problem” for the party.

“Yes. I hear it all the time and I share that sentiment,” Mr. Walker said. “We were told if Republicans got the majority in the United States Senate, there would be a bill on the president’s desk to repeal Obamacare. It is August. Where is that bill? Where was that vote?”

Mr. Walker also criticized Republican congressional leaders for not trying to block President Obama’s executive order of amnesty for millions of undocumented immigrants.

But, here's the problem: this is the very first time Scott Walker has said any of these things. Unlike someone like Ted Cruz, who has a record of resistance to GOP obedience to Obama on many issues, Walker's history of criticizing the Republican Congressional leadership only goes back to August 17, 2015.

According to the latest Fox News national poll of registered voters -- the first such poll since the GOP debate on Aug. 6 -- Walker trails behind Trump, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.

This is cause and effect. He drops in the polls, and suddenly starts talking tougher on immigration.Would he have done the same if he were still number one in Iowa?

Scott Walker has a credibility problem, and he only compounds it when he says he supported things (like a border wall) which he never explicitly has before. Coming out and endorsing an end to birthright citizenship, a day after Trump does, looks too much like me-tooism. And for his belated attack on the Republican Congressional leadership, well, why was he silent until now? I'm having real trouble believing anything he says, and I question the double-think of supporters who will say he was always for these things even though he never spoke about them until today.


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KEYWORDS: 2016election; dollarshortwalker; election2016; immigration; newyork; scottwalker; trump; walker; wisconsin
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1 posted on 08/18/2015 11:42:57 AM PDT by conservativejoy
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What a copy cat. Have and original thought ,Scott. You might consider attending to the huge deficit in your sate.


2 posted on 08/18/2015 11:46:50 AM PDT by WENDLE ( Hillary is a criminal.She jeopardized our national security.)
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To: conservativejoy

I had the same thought. He doesn’t seem like he thinks much on his own. I had high hopes for him, but he’s done nothing except react.


3 posted on 08/18/2015 11:48:11 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: conservativejoy

Finger in the wind.


4 posted on 08/18/2015 11:48:17 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
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To: conservativejoy

I bet if Trump came out today with a balanced budget, Scotty would be all over it by tonight....(me, me, me)


5 posted on 08/18/2015 11:49:33 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ("It's the hard working, tax paying citizens of the United States that are suffering...")
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To: conservativejoy

Scott Walker has that finger-in-the-wind that Willard had when he was running..

But his flip flopping wont do him any good..

Being Conservative means being unmovable..fixed..stable..

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways ..James 1:8


6 posted on 08/18/2015 11:50:40 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: conservativejoy

Which one... last months position or this months...


7 posted on 08/18/2015 11:52:18 AM PDT by GeronL (Cruz is for real, 100%)
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To: conservativejoy

Well yeah...but we don’t want him to do the opposite - maybe they’ll all end up promising the fence. However, I only trust Trump and Cruz to actually do it. And since it involves building something then I trust Trump most.


8 posted on 08/18/2015 11:52:34 AM PDT by Aria
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To: conservativejoy

As Trump’s bandwagon slowly trolls though the candidates.


9 posted on 08/18/2015 11:55:54 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: WENDLE

Ah yes, repeating the lefty-created (and Trump repeated) lie about a deficit.


10 posted on 08/18/2015 11:57:18 AM PDT by T. P. Pole
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To: TangledUpInBlue
He doesn't seem like he thinks much on his own

I'll be more charitable. Walker looked to be more of a young, rising star in the Republican Party. The Republican elite puppetmasters seem to have hijacked him and thrust him in the national spotlight before his views were fully formed. As a result, we don't know who he is.

Best thing he could do for himself is drop out, stay far away from the consultants such as George Will's wife who want to define him. Spend the next 12 years as governor, Senator, whatever experiences he chooses to enhance his resume.

But he keeps this up, he's going to be another has-been bought and paid for by the puppetmasters. He'll never get to define himself.

11 posted on 08/18/2015 11:57:49 AM PDT by grania
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To: conservativejoy

I just read on Drudge that Scott wouldn’t give ‘specifics’ on his immigration policy.


12 posted on 08/18/2015 11:58:36 AM PDT by Guenevere (If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do........Psalms 11:3..An Appeal to Heaven)
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To: conservativejoy

Someone once said that it was his legislature that led him to take the positions he took. This may show that same pattern?


13 posted on 08/18/2015 12:00:55 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: WENDLE

So when will Ted Cruz adopt the Trump immigration plan? Or does he still want to issue hundreds of thousands of H-1B visas?


14 posted on 08/18/2015 12:07:42 PM PDT by Parmenio
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To: WENDLE

And at the same time Ben Carson is going on a tour of the Mexican border.

They can do a copycat campaign of Trump but they cannot be Trump. Without Trump delivering the message there is no success in the polls.


15 posted on 08/18/2015 12:09:52 PM PDT by GilGil
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To: conservativejoy

For those of you who really are interested in an end to illegal immigration, you should be gracious winners to people like Walker. You should hope all the candidates come around if you want real change. I’m pro-Trump, but even I realize that he will need the support of his party and the country to get these kinds of sweeping changes to our immigration policy. Not everyone can arrive at the party first.

I am waiting for all the Republican candidates to respond to the Trump immigration plan which was put forward, and I will make my decisions about their RINO-ness based on their response. I’m especially interested to hear how Cruz responds to it.

For me, going forward, the reaction to Trump’s plan is how I will evaluate every candidate and media person. This is the litmus test. I could care less what they said a week, a month, or a year ago. Trump has changed everything.

Welcome aboard, Scott.


16 posted on 08/18/2015 12:10:19 PM PDT by ballearthout
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To: Tennessee Nana
A double minded man is unstable in all his ways ..James 1:8

So does Ted Cruz still want to issue hundreds of thousands of H-1B visas? Or has he backed off on that?

17 posted on 08/18/2015 12:10:45 PM PDT by Parmenio
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To: TangledUpInBlue

“Me-too” is not really a courageous position to take, especially in politics, but it is fine for protective coloration.

Now I have been supporting Scott Walker with a continuous stream of small contributions, starting when he was embattled within the State Capitol walls and up against a recall election. That he won that recall, perhaps one of the very few times that ANY officeholder in this country has ever accomplished that feat, and I still believe he is of inestimable value in showing us all how to govern from even a minority position (Wisconsin had, curiously, been a “blue” state for some time now), but perhaps he had something to do with turning the leftward “progressive” drift around.

After all, Wisconsin was one of the birthplaces of the “Progressives”, with the La Follette family, and it was closely related to the “Progressives” of New York State, arising about the time of Teddy Roosevelt.

Any place a rollback of “progressives” can happen, shows us that this drift is not necessarily inevitable. For this reason, I still support Scott Walker.


18 posted on 08/18/2015 12:10:46 PM PDT by alloysteel (If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers.)
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To: conservativejoy

will somebody break it to Cincy wife slowly it ain’t happening no matter how many hundreds of threads and posts she types up trashing Trump and propping up Walker?.. she’ll no doubt be on later touting Trump stole his immigration ideas from Walker


19 posted on 08/18/2015 12:17:43 PM PDT by Lib-Lickers 2
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To: WENDLE
What a copy cat. Have and original thought ,Scott.

Walker/Trump = "What he said."

20 posted on 08/18/2015 12:43:23 PM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate. [URL=http://media.photobucket.com/user/currencyjunkie/me)
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