Posted on 04/09/2015 4:59:30 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
......................“If the United States was being attacked in one of our water ports on the East or West Coast,we’d be sending in our military forces, and yet we’re facing some of the same challenges with international criminal organizations,the cartels that are trafficking not only drugs but weapons and humans and we need to step up and be aggressive,” he explained. “That means securing the border with infrastructure, with technology,with personnel and the federal government’s got to lead the way. We can’t expect the border states to do this alone. The federal government needs to step up and act.”
The most impressive part of Walker’s answer came at the end,where he didn’t just leave the issue at border security—he said that’s just step one,but after that’s completed there needs to an immigration policy that serves the national interest and protects American workers from cheap foreign labor that forces like the Chamber of Commerce,major labor unions,and other elitists are pushing for. He used language that sounds like it came from Sen. Jeff Sessions(R-AL), the immigration populist who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest—and specifically noted that wages of “American workers” must be protected.
“You can’t be talking about anything else until you do that,” Walker said. “Once you do that you can then we can talk about enforcing the laws by using an effective e-verify system for all employers,one that works for small businesses,farmers,and ranchers and making sure that any legal immigration,no amnesty, any legal immigration system we go forward with is one that ultimately has to protect American workers and make sure American wages are going up. That’s the way we prosper for every hard working American in this country.”
...If Walker stays on this path, it could mean bad news for the rest of the GOP field.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
No, there are multiple direct transcripts of his fervent support for amnesty within the last two years.
What you can point to now, as he tries to misdirect people from his established position, is the classical GOPe gobbledygook meant to sound anti-amnesty when it really isn’t. The topic of this thread is one such example, when he suggests it’s not amnesty to give illegals citizenship if you require them to visit their home country before putting them on the list for it.
The GOPe tried to sneak that one by a few years ago.
Sadly, there are clearly Freepers here who can’t or won’t see beyond and through his bs, pretend measures intended to deceive.
bttt!
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Okay, you made your point, such as it is. Now please go whine on another thread. How can you maintain he's a member of the GOPe when he has no experience with the elites? He doesn't belong to their clubs nor did he graduate from the accepted institutions. He's been too busy changing things for the better in his state job.
What are you talking about? He’s been funded by the Koch brothers for years, and his WI GOP compadres, Priebus and Ryan, are the quintessential current GOP Establishment.
You’re right on Walker - he has what it takes to get the job done.
Koch / SMOCH. That doesn't mean anything. They fund everything, left right and center, as long as it has GOP in the name somewhere. Great patriots to counter Soros and Bloomberg.
So what if he rubs shoulders with the GOP bosses. Doesn't mean a thing. He is a smart political operative. He is a smart businessman. He knows what he has to do to get where he wants. So what? EVERYBODY does. I wouldn't have anything directly to do with politics. I'm a teacher, not a politician. But for those that do, there are certain things that you must do for correct positioning. Deeds not words. Walker has a track record of reform. I for one, will give him a shot because he has none of the baggage of say... Jeb Bush or Fatso Christie (whom I really can't stand as you can tell) or Carly Fiorina.
No, the Koch brothers fund pro-amnesty GOP pols.
Walker is pro-amnesty, which will be the end of conservatism and our country.
Period. End of story.
That sounds really good but how does he propose to enforce that? Is he for deportations? They certainly aren’t going to go back willingly. Are these people to be rounded up, arrested?
And what does “get in line” mean? Would they have to stay in their country of origin for 5 years, 10 years?
The problem is that some politicians throw out these statements that they think the voters want to hear but they really have no idea themselves what the statements actually mean.
What it boils down to with Walker since he has changed on this topic so many times is whether or not we believe what he said then or what he is saying now.
OH PUH-LEASE. Okay. Whatever.
So you’re all for 20 million Latin illegals—and 40 million more from chain migration—adding their political votes to our system?
I guess you like the governments they choose in Latin America. But it really makes Walker a classic Trojan Horse: looks like we’re voting for a conservative, but in fact it’s a vote for an inescapable Leftist future.
Of those apparently in the field, I suppose Cruz—but he’s not great on illegal immigration either. He talks about clamping down on it, but he would legalize the 20 million-plus already here. (Though he says he’d stop short of giving them citizenship, that would inevitably follow.)
That is, the GOPe has completely co-opted the presidential nomination process to date—as there is no candidate who would enforce our current immigration laws, despite that being what voters and the base really want.
IMO we shouldn’t settle for that and we ought to demand and/or find better.
DO SOMETHING: Lead, follow, or get the HELL out of the way!
You go ahead and lead conservatives down the path to a permanent leftist majority if you’d like.
I’d prefer to at least try to wake people up enough to keep them from digging their country’s own grave.
Oh, and my preferred candidate—quite electable and legitimately conservative IMO—would be Gov. Fallon from Oklahoma. Too bad she’s not running.
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