IMO, the interview from March 1st, 2015 is essentially the Rosetta Stone for decrypting Walker. Here’s why:
1. He lays out his nine year stance on illegals
2. He backed McCain/Kennedy in 2006.
3. The main tenet of McCain/Kennedy was register and remain in place with a fine
4. Walker stated on 03/01/2015, that if they pay a fine now, a way can be found for them to stay
5. In the same interview, Walker claims he has just changed his policy
6. That is the same claim he’s making today.
7. It was obviously untrue at the time of this interview.
8. If he was lying then, he’s more than likely lying now.
9. If he was lying then, and there’s no doubt of it, I can’t trust him now.
10. His claim he will consider limiting legal immigration can’t be taken seriously, if he already lied, and he did.
11. His ploy of offering to limit legal immigration is nothing but smoke and mirrors.
11. a. As I stated earlier, if we cut all legal immigration and refugee immigration, it would take 25 years for that to match the amount of illegals he is willing to stay in place now.
11. b. If he really cared about our workers, he couldn’t possibly support ‘fine and remain in place’.
12. He lied in the interview. He hadn’t changed his policy.
13. He lies to us now pretending he’s going to create a new draw-down of immigration.
14. He is willing to fine and allow 25 years worth of immigrations, here illegally, to remain
I have provided that interview for folks to listen to and learn from. I find that there are a lot of folks here who don’t care about the interview.
This tells me Conservatism isn’t their number one concern.
It tells me they are on a forum that has trashed George Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama for lying. They ask the question, how can folks support a known liar?
Read my lips...
I never had sex...
You can keep your insurance...
Now: My policy has changed, because I care about the American worker...
If we can accept this, we are no better than those who supported Clinton or Obama.
We know that people who make bold lies to us can’t stop at one.
There’s really nothing left to say about Walker.
People will side with Conservatism, or they will become the GOPe equivalent of the Clinton/Obama supporter, liking the guy so much nothing he says or does on the record could possibly cause them to withdraw support.
I cannot support a man like this.
If you and the others can, great. Just don’t romp around the forum acting as if it’s terrible when the Left lies to us.
I am in favor of a 20-30 year freeze on legal immigration. I would allow some exceptions for great minds, great wealth, and family members. I would do my best to make sure new arrivals were disbursed evenly across the nation, and not to one specific city or region.
H-1Bs would end for the time being. Retraining would become the norm in the U. S., for those out of work with broad experience in the field.
I would not allow people from terrorist nations to come here. That eliminates anyone from a predominantly Islamic nation.
I would beef up the border starting on day one. I would end all freebies and start rigid enforcement of the 1986 immigration law.
I agree with all of your preferred policy changes on immigration.
As to Walker; maybe you’re right, and he is unworthy of trust. I hope his recent comments on immigration represent a genuine reflection and change of heart on his part, but maybe it is all just a lie. After all, he left himself wiggle/weasel room to later decide that unending mass legal immigration is great for Americans.
Cruz is probably better on illegal immigration, though isn’t he okay with allowing a legal status for some illegals without citizenship? Whatever the case on that, Cruz is bad on legal immigration. I’ve yet to see him criticize any element of it. He did vote against the Gang of Eight bill, but during the debate over it he proposed an amendment to increase H1B five fold, and voted against a Sessions amendment to limit overall legal immigration.
Rubio can’t be trusted. Jeb is atrocious. Jindal has called for huge increases in legal immigration too. Snyder and Kasich would likely be horrible on the issue too.
So if you are right about Walker, then it seems there is no hope at all for good, conservative comprehensive immigration reform from any of the candidates.