You are linking to the far left opposition paper (The Cap Times) in Madison - so far Left that it failed as a Statewide news source and like Air America barely subsists as a bomb-throwing, died-in-the-wool bolshevik, give-it-out-for-free as fishwrap newspaper. Like several other posters here, whose aim is to lash out at Walker there is a sense that they are willingly conflating several aspects of legal and illegal immigration. Everything written at the link you’ve posted is meant to weaken Walker. You would be hard pressed to produce any legitimate source for the charge that Walker is pro Amnesty.
First of all, Wisconsin does not have an illegal immigration problem like Minnesota, Michigan and Illinois. Our immigrants come largely from Eastern Europe and work in the dairy industry on lawful permits. When these expire they return to their native countries, not 100% of the time - but this is Wisconsin - not Arizona or California. The farms employing them do in fact need them, and the Wisconsin dairy industry would not be as successful without that labor pool available. Our Hispanic illegal population is around 1% and centered in Democrat areas of Dane & Milwaukee Counties.
In this article, the writer, Jack Craver places Walker’s position when he was still the Milwaukee County executive from 2009 and not yet Governor and slips it into the present solely to create the impression Walker draws an advantage by siding with the Emmanuel Goldtein’s of the left the Koch Brothers. He is doing the Koch’s bidding and only changed his immigration position to thwart attack’s from the Right. However Walker has plainly stated he opposes Amnesty.
Walker does have an evangelical side and is an ahem compassionate conservative, but he has stated he’s on the side of fixing the border by closing it and that that is the legitimate first step to fixing our border problem - so he in no-wise supports an open border nor amnesty for the large illegal immigrant population. To say that is a lie. It is classic disinformation. You may read the Breitbart exclusive on his position here:
A balanced article that addresses both legal and illegal immigration as it pertains to the State of Wisconsin is found here:
The authors take care to show the benefits of skilled labor versus the obvious crisis of illegal and unskilled migration into the States.
Some people here insist on using opposition sources to yield what they want to see as fact, in effect, what they see is what they want to see and what they’ve already formed an opinion of is simply reinforced. To get there they have to go to far Left sources to do it, but apparently they do not have a problem with that. It is doing precisely the work the disinformation media wants them to do. Divide and conquer.
I call it intellectual dishonesty.
Walker is not only pro-amnesty with eventual citizenship, but he’s for making it legal for”every Mexican (and anyone from anywhere else) who wants to” to come here legally—so there won’t be any need for them to ome illegally.
Oh, and dairy farmers in WI (and elsewhere) could simply pay market wages or automate: there’s nothing special about dairy farming that needs to be done by illegals.
Yes, anyone who read that Scott Walker immigration article needs to understand that was written by a lefty trying to weaken Walker. Basically every single archival news story done by a wisconsin paper the past four years tried to weaken Walker. Either make his base get discouraged or rile up independents or the left to go against him.
The immigration issues looks like it might have a direction anyways within the next couple months. If Obama declares amnesty, all the GOP will need to oppose it anyways. It is a winning political issue now for the GOP. Hopefully ALL of them realize it.