I like the concept of a guy listening to the grass roots and others, and coming up with a reasoned policy. It still grates me considerably that Scott is having to come up with this stance now.
I am so sick of reading about candidates that had no idea illegal immigration was the scourge it is, until just recently. WTH?
How can you take a guy like that serious?
What he changed to in weeks, seems easy enough to change in a few more weeks.
He is right that legal immigration needs to be looked at hard. What’s he willing to do there?
Frankly, we need a freeze on all immigration.
What’s his stance on all the Islamic Syrians headed our way?
none of the other candidates nor ANY politician even have had the balls to say anything about reducing legal immigration , only One Scott Walker. that’s a leader
I agree. Immigration should be minimal when we are in anything other than a full-employment economy.
Furthermore, we need a moratorium, near zero, for a decade or so to allow time for the people already here to assimilate.
Immigration policy should always serve the interests of citizens. Open immigration is not a right. It is a privilege that should be extended when it serves the interests of the citizenry.
Where is the politician who is prepared to make that argument?
Most politicians, even the ones I like, will try to soften their anti-illegal-immigration rhetoric by calling for increased legal immigration. But in an economy like this one with massive record high unemployment it is not just crazy, it is disrespectful of the American citizen to keep bringing people in by the millions per year.
You ask questions that take hours to answer doing the Google searches. The media does a miserable job with their sketchy reporting. And, what we do read are distortions meant to cast a quality Conservative in a bad way to the grass roots.
Luckily, there are some You Tube videos you can look at:
Governor Scott Walker: (see time 9:23)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uymMeeRV1RU
Senator Ted Cruz: (see time 16:41):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY_JoM9dvSk
Senator Marco Rubio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aq8OnyDeAw