Posted on 02/19/2015 4:25:25 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I should hope so. After signing a separate resolution calling for a path to citizenship in 2002, how could he turn down a sequel?
Are we sure Jeb Bush is the most pro-amnesty candidate in the field? Remember, unlike some people, Jeb (supposedly) opposes a path to citizenship for adult illegals.
But the likely presidential candidate apparently stood on another side of that debate as the Milwaukee County Executive in 2006. That year, he signed a resolution calling on Congress to pass the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act, a bill authored by John McCain and Teddy Kennedy that was denounced at the time by conservatives as “amnesty” — and remains anathema to party activists…
The 2006 resolution embracing the McCain-Kennedy bill was sent to Walker by the Milwaukee Board of Supervisors. He signed it despite returning or vetoing numerous other matters that year. The final version of the resolution signaled support for criminalizing federal immigration law violations and increased border fencing. But it also referred to a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and “full labor rights.”
Good news for Walker: The guy who actually wrote that bill — with Ted Kennedy — ended up winning the GOP nomination in 2008, so it’s possible to be a much bigger amnesty shill and still end up as the “conservative” party’s choice for president. More good news: Although McCain faced a weaker field than Walker will, he also had to contend with people running to his right on this issue. Walker really doesn’t. Cruz will try, but when push comes to shove, he supports legalizing illegals. And still more good news: Judging from the reaction of some of our commenters in Headlines, plenty of grassroots righties are already greeting stories like this with “the media’s trying to take down our guy!” rather than “gee, the great conservative hope sure has a bad record on this issue.” That’s Walker’s strength in a nutshell. He’s impressed so many Republicans by winning his death match with labor in Wisconsin that his heresies on immigration are interpreted not so much as damaging liabilities as fodder for “they’ll tell you who they fear” hit pieces by a panicky drive-by media. He’s One of Us, so he’ll get a pass on offenses that constitute high crimes when committed by Jeb Bush or even Marco Rubio. (One commenter touted Walker’s immigration squishiness as a good thing insofar as it’ll help pull votes from the center of the party too. Walker/McCain 2016!) In that sense Walker really is Reaganesque. Sure, the Gipper may have signed off on a truly terrible amnesty bill, but if that’s all you see in his record, you’re missing the forest for the trees.
Even so, Team Walker’s taking no chances. Politico reports that they’re working on an immigration platform that’ll call for repealing Obama’s executive amnesty and demanding “absolute security” at the border before tackling legalization. You can imagine how that startling transformation from squish to border hawk will be packaged: “Yes, like everyone else running for president this year, Governor Walker has long supported bringing illegals ‘out of the shadows,’ but last year’s border crisis drove home to him just how weak our enforcement mechanisms are. He’s seen the light and now realizes that security must precede legalization to ensure that there are no further amnesties.” That’ll be plenty good enough for voters who like him and are looking for a reason to absolve him of his previous ideological sins.
Is it also good enough for Rubio, though? He’s been doing penance for his own sins for more than a year now, much longer than Walker, to the point where he’s all but abandoned the Gang of Eight bill and endorsed a security-first piecemeal approach to immigration reform as the way forward. And yet many conservatives still regard him as hopelessly compromised on this issue, never to be trusted again. That’s what made yesterday’s news about him supposedly calling for a “clean” DHS funding bill, which would mean giving up on trying to block Obama’s amnesty, so shocking: The last guy in the 2016 field who can afford to cross the base again on immigration is Rubio. Turns out he didn’t call for a “clean” bill, though; after reading the transcript of what he said, I’m … not sure what his strategy is for undoing Obama’s amnesty, frankly. What he’s saying, I think, is that the GOP should give up for now on repealing the 2012 DACA amnesty for DREAMers and focus exclusively on getting rid of last November’s mega-amnesty for adult illegals. (Ted Cruz supports the same move.) In theory it’ll be easier for Senate Dems to vote for a bill that targets only the latter amnesty — DACA has already been implemented, the people enrolled in it are kids, and it’s more modest in scope than Obama’s more recent immigration action. You might pick up a few Democratic votes for cloture on that one … but you probably won’t get to 60, as even purple-state Democrats will be reluctant to humiliate Obama by helping the GOP get an anti-amnesty bill through the Senate. So that’ll be filibustered too, in which case what’s Rubio’s move then? Do we a pass a clean DHS bill at that point? Do we pass a bill that funds all of DHS except the immigration agencies? Exit quotation from Rubio: “We have to fund Homeland Security.”
no he didn’t
I hear ya.
Read it and weep:
http://www.ontheissues.org/Scott_Walker.htm
Sorry. I won’t support anyone playing the pathway/worker/amnesty card.
What I've seen him go thru..in the last few years...I've admired.
What I've seen Cruz and Palin go thru..in the last many years....I've admired.
What I've seen J. Bush, McCain, McCrusty, do...et al....I've not in anyway..admired.
No, an “Ivy Leaguer” is someone who attended an Ivy League school. Jeb Bush graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. in Latin American Studies. That is not, in any way, an Ivy League institution. Your statement means that if I have someone in my family who attended the Ivy League, I am also one of them,. That is preposterous.
So all these people writing all these articles are lying about Scott Walker?
How about we start with one, then move to two, and then onward to three, and into the distance with four...
And stop talking about tens of millions, because you don’t start with 10 of millions, you start with number one.
And once people see that deportations are in fact occurring and are in fact a matter of policy, maybe some of the others will leave on their own when they realize that they are not going to be pandered to, but are going to eventually be deported.
No more of this oh we can’t do it all at once, so we aren’t going to do any of it all all, and instead we are just going to make them all legal.
If a candidate can’t come up with a legitimate solution to this mess that protects the value of US citizenship, then that candidate is not going to get my vote under any circumstance.
I’m done being played for a fool by GOP liars.
Does anybody here actually give a damn about the politicians these days! Yes, they are all a bit crooked or they would not be politicians. We have little choice but compared to those that are worse, he is great. Let that sink in a bit, as we have begun to accept only those that are acceptable, not those that are actually good...
“Ted Cruz stands head and shoulders over the field”
You are totally correct. IMO Walker is just another establishment candidate with a more pleasing color of lipstick. If elected he will just end up being a placeholder for the next Democrat as will Jeb, Huck, Rubio etc.
A couple of months ago everybody on FR loved Ted Cruz. Now they are jumping onto the Walker bandwagon like lemmings over a cliff.
You’re not being realistic. They’re here to stay. Deal with it and stop with the “well Ted Cruz will take care of it” fantasy. He’s not going to deport anybody. You seal the border to prevent more people from coming in. We stop giving education visas and put a moratorium on all incoming immigration. Some of you guys are living a pipe dream if you think any politician, including Ted Cruz, is going to deport any of the illegals who are here now.
Ike died in 1969.
You’re not being realistic.
They aren’t going to seal the border.
If this country refuses to deport illegal aliens, then it’s done. American citizenship is worthless.
If Ted Cruz says he won’t start deporting illegal aliens, then I won’t be voting for Ted Cruz, or Scott Walker, or any other traitor politician this dying country barfs up.
I am not going to accept the premise that since they are here we have to give them amnesty. Screw that!
Since they are here illegally, we can begin a policy of steady deportations, period, end of story.
Otherwise go get someone else’s vote, because you ain’t getting mine.
Unfortunately amnesty is the Single Issue par excellence because being wrong on it pushes all other issues into irrelevance as the millions and millions of new Democrat Voters transform the USA into a single Party Democrat Totalist State.
When you are taking flak, you are over the target. Walker is 100% GOPe. He’s the non-loudmouth Crispy Creme.
President Reagan allowed us "80% right".
Cruz is my #1 choice - I hope we don’t go with a “Cruz or Lose” strategy though. I have already donated to Cruz and will do more as he moves closer to actually running and beyond in hopes of him being on the final ticket.
I have several problems with Governor Walker. Amnesty is the biggest. It weakens us financially and compromises our national security.
How is a pathway to legal status for illegals not amnesty? Because Scott Walker refuses to call it what it is? Sounds like amnesty to me.
Walker campaign spokesman Tom Evenson said they were consistent with his past comments on what to do with those living here illegally. WALKER DOES NOT CONSIDER THE PENALTY-LADEN PATHWAY TO LEGAL STATUS THAT HE ENDORSED IN 2013 “AMNESTY” AND HE’S NOT ADVOCATING AMNESTY NOW, he said.
Walker Crying Over Paul Ryan Speech (another Boehner??)http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/gov-scott-walker-cries-during-paul-ryan-speech/
Walker Praising Ryan’s Budget which Screwed our Military http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/scott-walker-praises-paul-ryan-for-federal-budget-deal-b99164282z1-235942181.html
Walker Softening on Gay Marriage - His Son was Witness to Gay Wedding of Walker Relative http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/noquarter/scott-walker-declines-to-say-where-he-stands-on-gay-marriage-today-b99290317z1-262952941.html
Walker Soft on Immigration and Border Security http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/03/scott-walker-immigration_n_3541600.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/07/03/scott-walker-backs-path-to-
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OR THERE’S THIS
“Make it easier to enter the country legally”
Walker said he is in favor of the Senate immigration bill—that features a path to citizenship—but called it a backward “Band-Aid” approach, saying elected leaders should make it easier for people to enter the country and become legal citizens in the first place.
“Not only do they need to fix things for people already here, or find some way to do it, there’s got to be a larger way to fix the system in the first place,” he said. “Because if it wasn’t so cumbersome, if there wasn’t such a long wait, if it wasn’t so difficult to get in, we wouldn’t have the other problems that we have (with people living here illegally),” he said. Walker’s stance on immigration reform evolved over the years.
Source: Wisconsin Rapids Tribune, “Endorses path to citizenship” , Jul 3, 2013
2010: stop suspected illegals; 2012: that’s a distraction
Walker’s stance on immigration reform evolved over the years. He said as a gubernatorial candidate in 2010 that he would sign an Arizona-style bill, which would allow local police to stop suspected illegal immigrants, if he were elected. Then, in December 2012, Walker said he no longer favored such a bill, telling reporters that such legislation would become a “huge distraction” from accomplishing his agenda for the state. Today, Walker said he would support a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants under some circumstances.
Source: Wisconsin Rapids Tribune, “Endorses path to citizenship” , Jul 3, 2013
“Yeah, this is getting old. In the end there is no perfect candidate. We’ll end up with another Bush when we could of at least had someone who would cut government.”
Maybe you don’t realize, if you have thousands and thousands crossing the border sucking up local state and federal resources, you will never be able to cut government. Literally impossible. Ask California how it well it worked for them.
I fully realize buddy. I’ve fought to police the borders harder than most myself. Borders, culture language is my tagline... I just can’t stomach the thought of another Bush presidency.
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