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.
“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.