Posted on 02/15/2015 5:21:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Two very astute readers have responded to my post about Scott Walker’s position on amnesty by arguing that Walker’s bigger problem is his apparent preference for seemingly unlimited legal immigration. Walker has said, for example:
"I don’t care whether it is from Mexico or India or Germany or Ireland or anywhere else around the world, if we have people who want to come here and work hard and live the American dream, we should embrace those people."
Taken literally, Walker’s statement obviously goes too far. As Neil Munro has pointed out, a Gallup poll indicates that at least 138 million low-skilled or high-skilled people in China, Latin America, India and Africa want to immigrate to the United States.
The U.S. clearly cannot welcome this many immigrants. I’m hoping that, as Walker hones his position on immigration, he will make it clear that there should be limits on legal immigration.
I also hope that Walker will make clear that the U.S. shouldn’t welcome everyone who has a university degree or even an advanced degree. As one reader warns, this approach would quickly commoditize U.S. graduates and professionals thus seriously threatening America’s upper-middle class.
Both readers note that Scott Walker isn’t the only Republican contender who has been too quick to embrace the significant expansion of visas for foreign professionals. In fact, all of the most prominent contenders — Walker, Bush, Rubio, Cruz, and Paul — appear to have.
Rubio, for example, has co-sponsored legislation that would expand the number of guest-workers for the tech industry. Its premise is that the U.S. suffers from a shortage of high-tech workers, a dubious proposition. Indeed, companies like Microsoft have been laying off such employees.
The debates among Republican presidential contenders will feature a sharp clash of views on what to do about illegal immigrants. Let’s hope there’s also a serious clash on the issue of legal immigration.
We don’t have that anymore, Precedent Obama took care of that.
Unchecked immigration has the potential to entirely destroy the country.
Potential?
Look around, it IS destroying the country.
Is Ted Cruz a natural-born citizen eligible to serve as president? [Yes! And I support him! JimRob]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3084490/posts
Let's face it. Scott Walker doesn't have a lot of foreign policy experience and Wisconsin doesn't have much of an illegal immigration problem. He can rectify his problem by appointing a good Secretary of State like John Bolton.
On the other hand, if Walker was a Constitution-respecting POTUS then he would necessarily have to veto any immigration-related bills that Congress puts on his desk. This is because the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for immigration purposes imo.
There is only one person that consistently Stands with the Constitution of The United States of America and that is Ted Cruz.
Scott Walker would be great as head of the NLRB, *IF* Wisconsin is tired of the GREAT job he is doing as their Governor.
While were at it, CRUZ can appoint Gov. Perry to that Department he couldn’t remember, he’s gotta be better than whoever Obummer or his CZAR is doing.
Could it be that we just pay people too much not to work?
It won’t be long until the new immigrants figure this out too.
Walker would most likely have a repub senate & house. They’ll do what he wants them to do.
Walker would most likely have a repub senate & house. They’ll do what he wants them to do.
Not if we vote in even more Tea Partiers.
3 years - long enough to know better.
“Don’t get me wrong, I love Cruz”. Okay. Right. (That line sounds like the: ‘I like Sarah but’ one that the haters use a lot here.) Then we get the “not a natural born American citizen” jazz. I wonder if the Kittehs are still up and about tonight fellas?........
Another problem is that Americans want cushy success from the word go. Paying dues by being a burger flipper, etc. on the way up is scorned as shameful.
We have full on unchecked illegal immigration NOW. All the stuff Obama does in public with his exec orders are merely a head fake. In the background, his flying monkeys are doing all kinds of things to give paperwork, social security numbers, ID’s and free tax money to illegals by the tens of thousands.
When people talk about this single comment by walker about immigration, I cannot believe people would throw him out with the bathwater. We have 2 good conservative candidates, walker and Cruz. We need to rally behind them or its all over, forever!
It not just one comment by Walker, he has made many that make us think he supports “Comprehensive Immigration Reform”, also known as “National Suicide”.
He does not see it right.
Nobody deserves citizenship just b/c they want to work here. They don’t want to assimilate, they are mexicans who want the perks and the money to send home to family in their home country. this is not deserving of citizenship.
We need to adopt mexico’s laws regarding illegals.
I choose to focus on Scott Walkers proved capacity and strength as a Traditional Values American rather than focus on single issue hypotheticals, that may or may not occur.
Boy, there’s a bunch of you with a crush on this guy all of a sudden. Did I miss something?
If we do not elect a President who will stop the invasion, there won’t be any Traditional Values America.
Yes Ted Cruz Is Eligible To Be President
https://drewmusings.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/yes-ted-cruz-is-eligible-to-be-president/
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