If he is elected president he better put his new hard line stance on immigration into action and not give us the usual inaction we get from most Republicans on this issue.
>>If he is elected president he better put his new hard line stance on immigration into action...<<
I don’t view it as a new hard line stance as much as changing the emphasis on how to address the issue.
If he’s successful in refocussing the issue from illegal immigration to all immigration, legal and illegal, by making the obvious point that more immigrants means more competition for American jobs, thereby driving down American wages, then the illegal immigrant issue takes care of itself.
That is, it makes no sense to protect American wages from a surplus of immigrants if illegals are ignored. But by changing the emphasis he puts the focus on helping the American worker by protecting wages from competition by too many immigrants which I think is a smart move. It’s driving the Left nuts too. All of a sudden they’re all “Statue of Liberty” people, which has got to be a new experience for most of them.
It might also give Walker, and the GOP, a leg up on the Dems’ new favorite issue, income inequality, since it focuses on protecting wages of American workers. It’s an issue that could well resonate across party lines, especially since the Democrat Party has moved so far left that it’s left a lot of traditional Democrats stranded.
Walker didn’t include the police and fire unions in Act 10, and he didn’t lead the Right to Work effort in Wisconsin, and now he’s calling for American wage levels to be brought into the immigration debate. He’s doing a good job appealing to the average American, in my opinion, possibly even many union members fed up with Obama and the Dems leftward lurch.