WALKER TOUGHENS IMMIGRATION POSITION AFTER SETBACKS

Breitbart ^ | March 27, 2015 | by MATTHEW BOYLE

[Jim Robinson]

After some setbacks over the past several weeks, top aides to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker tell Breitbart News that he’s toughening up his immigration position as he learns more about the issue.

“He’s for border security first, enforce the laws on the books, fix legal immigration system with national interest in mind and then deal with those here,” Walker spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski said in an email.

Kukowski’s comments to Breitbart News come after a trip Walker took on Friday to the border with Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.

A lot depends on what the governor means by a: “legal immigration system with national interest in mind.” Still, this could be a step toward Walker remaking his image on immigration in the manner of Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL).

The question becomes: What does Walker think is a legal immigration system that serves the national interest? While he hasn’t laid that out yet, there’s a massive opportunity for either success—or failure—depending on where he comes down on this matter.

“He looks forward to further detailing his ideas on securing the border and enforcing the laws,” Kukowski added. “Yes, at the minimum, there needs to be penalties put in place. In addition to securing our borders, the federal government must enforce our laws, penalize those who break the law including paying back taxes, and implement a universal E-Verify system so employers are hiring legal employees.”

Where Walker comes down on the immigration system could make or break his candidacy...

[duffee]

“and then deal with those here,”

This is the big question that still needs needs to be asked and answered.

[SoConPubbie]

Senator Cruz has almost identical position as governor Walker regarding illegals. So who do you prefer, if not Walker or Cruz?

You mean now he is getting CLOSER to the positions Ted Cruz has already staked out. Has Walker outlined his positions on ALL of the issues surrounding Illegal Immigration like Ted Cruz has?:


Here is a list of what Ted Cruz supports with respect to Illegal Immigration and Border Issues from NumbersUSA.com. This is a list of his official positions:

From NumbersUSA:

1. Oppose Amnesty - OPPOSE offering the officially estimated 11 million people illegally in the U.S. long-term work permits and/or a path to citizenship (whether through a blanket amnesty or an "earned legalization" or other form)

2. Attrition through Enforcement - fund an Attrition Through Enforcement campaign to cause illegal aliens to self-repatriate back to their home countries over time

3. Mandate E-Verify - jobs held by illegal aliens be opened up for unemployed Americans and legal immigrants already here by requiring all businesses to use the Federal automated, rapid-response internet system (E-Verify) to screen out illegal foreign workers

4. Assist Local Police - federal government be required to cooperate with local officials and pick up all illegal aliens detained by local law enforcement

5. Defund Sanctuary Cities - reduce funding to state and local governments that adopt sanctuary policies and other rewards for illegal foreign workers and the companies that hire them

6. Fund Entry/Exit System - fully fund the completion of the entry/exit system at all borders and points of entry in which every person entering and leaving the U.S. is logged into a database which would notify law enforcement, businesses and others when a foreign tourist, student, worker or other fails to leave on-time? *(US-VISIT was approved by Congress in 1996 and has never been sufficiently funded and is largely incomplete.)

7. Border Security - fund and provide oversight for the full implementation of border security measures already signed into law

8. End Birthright Citizenship - move the U.S. in line with most other nations and stop the policy of giving automatic citizenship at birth to children when both parents are illegal aliens?

9. End Chain Migration - implement the bi-partisan, national Jordan Commission recommendation to limit family-based immigration to the nuclear family of spouse and minor children, thus eliminating the "chain migration" categories of extended family that are the key reason immigration has quadrupled since the 1960s

10. End Visa Lotteries - institute safeguards that will prevent importation of foreign workers any time they would threaten the jobs or depress the wages of American workers

11. Reduce Total Immigration - Until 1976, U.S. immigration tradition was an average of around 250,000 a year; since new legislation in 1990, it has averaged 1,000,000 a year. More than 38 million foreign workers and dependents now live in the U.S. At current rates, immigration will add more than 100 million additional people to the U.S. population by 2060. This government-forced rapid population expansion will require huge increases in energy, roads and other infrastructure and services.


Too bad Walker has to be drug to his positions because he is lagging in polls on the issue.

[SoConPubbie]

I like walker. He is the best qualified in my opinion. Things can change like John Kasich running.

The fact that you think Kasich might be better than Walker is telling.

[9YearLurker]

Fair points and comparison generally, though Cruz has clearly said he supports legalizing illegals currently here, just not through Obama’s executive amnesty and not to the point of citizenship.

(I’d still call that amnesty, and I”m pretty certain that not only would many more be voting from the point of legalization, but that citizenship would certainly end up going to them after they were legalized anyway.)

[Erik Latranyi]

BREAKING from HotAir’s Allahpundit: Ted Cruz Hasn’t Ruled Out Legalization For Illegals, Believes In Giving Them Work Permits.

[Erik Latranyi]

Cruz wants to give the illegals work permits, not citizenship.

Walker has said the same thing.

This is what Obama is doing by executive memorandum.

The fear is that work permits lead to citizenship too easily.

[Nextrush]

I’m afraid its not over even if the highest court refused to hear the appeal as Governor Walker stated, its actually just the beginning because it doesn’t stop with gay marriage legalization, it continues with the actions against individuals and institutions said to be addressed in the law Indiana just passed last week.

GM is part of a creeping attack on the First Amendment rights of conservative religious people who will be forced to ultimately accept gay marriage and homosexuality in their houses of worship.

GM supporters define opponents as “bigots” and “KKK” which means they see nothing wrong with demands that escalate to the point I described above and using friendly government officials, laws and courts to achieve it.

Walker should not be talking acceptance, he should be warning about what’s coming next like I just stated and reject it as tyranny ala USSR and Germany in the 1930’s-40’s.

The LGBT activists and their political elite and business elite co-conspirators should remind us of Pastor Niemoller’s admonitions: “first they came for -—— and I did nothing because I wasn’t ———, then they came for -—— and so on.”

This is no joke or light issue to be dismissed with “I accept” anything cause its sort of like accepting a yellow star in Germany in the 1930’s, because worse things are coming........

[9YearLurker]

Walker has said quite a bit more: he’d eventually give citizenship and he’d make it so easy for anyone “From Mexico or any other country” to come here legally that they’d never bother trying to cross the border illegally.

But I totally agree that legalization will lead all too easily both to immediate voting and eventual citizenship.

[Nextrush]

Keep researching and digging up the facts.

I like Walker on government employee unions and supported him financially when they tried to recall him, but what about all the other issues.....

[ansel12]

Actually you are openly lying and looking pretty silly, the proof that Walker backs citizenship is posted on this thread.

[ansel12]

Walker wants to give them citizenship, Cruz is fighting that tooth and nail.

[ansel12]

Why wouldn’t Cruz have been allowed a student visa after being accepted to study mathematics at the University of Texas?

Besides, isn’t it all of America that is “damn lucky” that Cruz came to America and gave us this conservative hero?

[Erik Latranyi]

BREAKING from HotAir’s Allahpundit: Ted Cruz Hasn’t Ruled Out Legalization For Illegals, Believes In Giving Them Work Permits.

[ansel12]

Hasn’t “ruled out” a legal status of some sort (so we don’t know his position yet), but is fighting tooth and nail to prevent citizenship, as he struggles against people like Scott Walker who want citizenship for illegals.

So what we do know for certain at this point, is that Cruz is doing whatever he can to prevent them from becoming citizens, and Scott Walker supports them becoming citizens.

Why are you supportive of citizenship?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

You forgot to add the UPDATE at the same source:

UPDATE: A Walker spokeswoman responds with the following comment: This is an unfortunate situation that happened because a news organization was too quick to judge on Governor Walker’s history on immigration. The truth is, like many cases in government, there was a process over a long period of time and the end result was much different than where the Milwaukee Board of Supervisors began. After a year long process on amnesty that included hearings and a staff memo that outlined the negatives such as incentivizing breaking the law, a substitute resolution was offered that eliminated every single reference to amnesty as well as the support for the 1986 law. This was done by the very same author of the original resolution and that final product was signed by then- County Executive Walker who has not and does not support amnesty. Governor Walker believes our country’s immigration system is broken, it must be fixed, and we must secure our borders. The governor doesn’t believe in granting amnesty – we must enforce the laws on the books and reform the process for those who want to come to the United States legally. Here’s the resolution in its entirety:

[kjam22]

Latest pole I saw had Walker behind Cruz. Cruz is gonna make a lot of people move to the right.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Finally we know that he is tight with Reince Preibus. That is questionable in itself for other reasons.

Ryan and Walker and Preibus grew up about a stones throw from each other. Who do you live near?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

He also recently invited Mexico to set up a consulate in WI.

Mexico is one of the top trade partners with the U.S.

Canada is #1 [$7.9B] in trade with Wisconsin, Mexico is #2 [$2.8]Source

[Clyde5445]

Earlier today, MSNBC published a story suggesting Senator Cruz supports legalization of undocumented individuals currently in the United States.

Derived from the fact that Senator Cruz hasn’t specifically stated he does not support legalization of undocumented individuals, the inference is that Cruz must therefore support legalization of undocumented individuals. It’s a nice little semantic game, really.

MSNBC referenced a Texas Tribune article from 2013 which they claim indicates, “that he [Cruz] supported giving some undocumented immigrants permission to stay in the country with more limited legal status.” This summation is not accurate.

The Texas Tribune article, written around the time of the Gang of Eight immigration fight, makes the same incorrect assumption as MSNBC. The first statement is correct while the latter is only partially so:

When it comes to immigration reform, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has made it abundantly clear what he opposes: giving citizenship to people who broke the law to come here.

What has not been as evident is what he supports: legal status for millions of people here already, while making it easier for immigrants to come here through the front door.

Going on to discuss the Gang of Eight legislation, the Texas Tribune reported:

Immigration-reform legislation from the Senate’s so-called Gang of Eight passed that chamber in June and includes a 13-year path to citizenship. Cruz pushed unsuccessfully for amendments that would have, among other things, eliminated the citizenship component.

Asked about what to do with the people here illegally, however, he stressed that he had never tried to undo the goal of allowing them to stay.

“The amendment that I introduced removed the path to citizenship, but it did not change the underlying work permit from the Gang of Eight,” he said during a recent visit to El Paso. Cruz also noted that he had not called for deportation or, as Mitt Romney famously advocated, self-deportation.

Neither in the Texas Tribune nor at any other time has Senator Cruz ever said he supports legalization for undocumented workers currently residing in the United States.

Senator Cruz’s campaign spokeswoman Catherine Frazier told us Cruz’s goal in the Gang of Eight amendment was three fold: to get Senators on the record showing where they stood on the issue, that it was a good faith effort to improve the bill, and to stop a pathway to citizenship. Frazier explained it was not intended to suggest support for legalization.

“Cruz supports strengthening the border and fixing our legal immigration and interior enforcement systems before we deal with those who are here illegally,” Frazier said. “It’s premature to discuss what to do with those who are still here illegally until we have made these reforms. Indicating that there may be the potential for amnesty in the future, only encourages more illegal immigration.”

Frazier reiterated Senator Cruz’s consistency on the issue, that the Senator is in favor of expanding legal immigration, and that he vocally opposes President Obama’s executive immigration overreach.

While MSNBC’s claim that Senator Cruz has not specifically detailed his stance on legalizing undocumented immigrants is true, the inference that he supports legalization, is false.

http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/03/ted-cruz-disputes-msnbc-claim-he-supports-legalization-of-illegal-immigrants/#comments

[ansel12]

It’s funny watching how you slip slide around and avoid the head on facts and instead try to paint over things.

Why did you switch from doing this for Perry, to start doing it for Walker?