I wish we had a candidate who wouldn’t legalize 20 million illegals, who would then become 20 citizens, who would multiply to 60 million citizens by chain migration—all a majority Leftist-voting, low-skill, welfare dependents.
I wish such a candidate would jump in. Short of that, the best we can do is to press the candidates we have to sharpen their positions on illegal immigration in a positive way as part of the price for being competitive in the GOP primary.
You can see already that Walker and Cruz are upping their rhetoric about wanting to stem illegal immigration. So far, however, they are still deflecting away from, rather than changing, their pro-legalization/amnesty positions.
That’s understandable, in that the largest GOP donors and major lobbyists such as the Chamber of Commerce are constantly working to influence the GOP to deliver them cheap, imported labor.
But what this country very much needs them to do is to come down on the side of the voters, rather than the donors, and stand firmly against our country’s transformation into North Latin America. All we need is for them to vow to enforce our laws on the issue. Really that’s not asking too much. But the only time we have a real chance to get it is before the primaries, when they are most inclined to listen and respond to those whose votes they want.
In other aspects, Cruz and Walker are the two decent candidates we have, but we need to pit them and all the candidates against each other to come up with a winning, firm, anti-amnesty platform that they will legitimately stand on.
*20 million citizens*
It seems we do not have a conservative candidate who is satisfying us as far as illegal immigration is concerned. I don’t know what to say to that except that we need to choose which of them is the most conservative and which of them we can trust to do the people’s will concerning immigration and not their own or fold to special interest groups.
Maybe they should be asked “If you are president and the American people (that means citizens) tell you that they do not want any form of amnesty, want our borders secured and proven secure for 10 years and want our current immigration laws seriously enforced would you support the will of the people and encourage congress to do so as well? And if not, why not?”
The answer to a question like that will tell you much more about a candidate than just their views on illegal immigration. If you see sweat beads forming on their foreheads and hear a lot of stuttering that will tell you quite a bit as well:)