Posted on 03/29/2015 11:11:08 PM PDT by 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...
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Sources and Quotes , please.
And please don't tell us about his closed meeting with the Chair of the New Hampshire GOP who is there for the reason of helping Jeb Bush. Yes, I know it is said there were two others,….why would they be "anonymous?" Are they afraid the Wisconsin State Police are going to drive to New Hampshire and arrest them?
From 9YearLurker-”Walker has repeatedly said that he’d legalize all illegals here and eventually make them citizens. He’s also said that he’d make it so easy for anyone from Mexico or any other country in the world to come here legally if they want to that they’d not have any incentive to cross the border illegally.”
From cookcounty-”Sources and Quotes , please.”
Below is all from the Wausau Daily Herald, with video.
Daily Herald: The biggest split is about what to do with those 11 million or whatever it is. Can you envision a world where, with the right penalties and waiting periods and meet the requirements, where those people could get citizenship?
WALKER: Sure. Yeah. I mean, I think it makes sense.
“WALKER: If people want to come here and work hard in America, I don’t care whether they come from Mexico or Ireland or Germany or South Africa or anywhere else, I want ‘em here.”-—” Because if it wasn’t so cumbersome, if there wasn’t such a long wait, if it wasn’t so difficult to get in, you wouldn’t have the other problems that we have with people who don’t have legal status in the first place.
That seems to be, at least to me, what I hear in the national debate, largely overlooked. It all is about the 11 million — and I don’t know how we get that exact number because people, if they’re not here legally, I don’t know exactly how you figure out when it’s 11 million, or 25 million or whatever it is, but we’ve heard enough about it that it’s a real issue. But, like I said, I don’t know why — you hear some people talk about border security and a wall and all that. To me, I don’t know that you need any of that if you had a better, saner way to let people into the country in the first place.”
You keep throwing up that strawman argument “nobody is pushing for deportation”. There needs to be a general enforcement of the law and the illegals will repatriate themselves.
Unless the next President gets serious about removing the blight of over immigration, reverses what O’Bastard did, there won’t be a country.
If Walker wants to be President he better start listening to the base. This is the big leagues. What the base is saying is “you are a squish and we don’t trust you on immigration”. It is UP TO HIM TO FIX THAT, not for conservatives to compromise for him. He is not running for dictator....
I’m the base and I’m not saying that. It’s a couple of yokels who think that they can improve Cruz’s chances by denigrating a man whom they’re not fit to clear the dishes from dinner.
I’ve noted that reservations about Cruz are based on objective facts while reservations about Walker are based on ad hominem attacks and innuendo.
It’s the same circular firing squad of moronic conservative purists that gave us first McCain and then Romney.
Keep it up and you’ll watch Bush lose to Princess Fauxcahontas, but you’ll have preserved the infantile nativist fantasy that we’ll deport millions of illegals by force...once we elect the right man.
You’re dealing with the morons of conservatism. They live in a bubble where they get nothing because they win nothing. Each Pyrrhic victory magnifies their smugness.
Cruz will lose. He might be a decent AG but not Pres.
Asking for a candidate to take a hard line on enforcing immigration IS NOT ASKING TO MUCH. The country is at stake.
Look at all the whacked out Cruz fans as the blast Walker, but; if a one of us says anything about Cruz that isn’t wonderful on one of their Cruz love in posts they have a hissy fit. I think some are dodging “Waters World.”
It’s asking him to lose. You have to capture the mushy-middle. We shouldn’t start killing our candidates. The GOPe and the MSM will do that for us.
If Walker is the GOPe candidate he’ll be the most conservative candidate since Reagan. Stop denigrating him and play ball to win.
What took so long for you just to say that, why all the game playing?
You could have just said right out that you disagree with Cruz’s politics.
Agree. We need to deport everyone who Obama and Holder let in plus all Muslims.
Agree.
Exactly. The same Cruz love in types always attack Walker.
Thanks, ansel12!
No, there were multiple media interviews about two years ago when he was advocating that, but I see ansel12 has provided you a link.
See post 146, when the attacks on Cruz became intense from Walker supporters, some of us were forced to find out more about Walker.
Those problems Cruz and Walker see include campaign funding from the likes of the Shelly Adelson, the Koch brothers, and the Chamber of Commerce.
Letting them stay is a net drain on opportunities for Americans and all levels of our governmental coffers (that is, on taxpayers), our productivity investments in agriculture and other industry sectors, and the job opportunities and wages of the least skilled Americans.
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