Right now more people are FOR keeping those here who are here....and there's no power pushing against those coming in.. ...they have stacked the deck large enough already that any opposition is a "minority" when push comes to shove.
Posted on 04/24/2015 4:12:26 PM PDT by VinL
Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday took a shot at rival presidential contender Scott Walker for comments the Wisconsin governor has made regarding immigration policy.
Cruz opposes comprehensive immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship for the estimated 11-12 million illegal immigrants living in the United States. But the Texan is a big proponent of legal immigration and making adjustments to U.S. law that would facilitate more legal immigration. He criticized Walker for suggesting that he supported limiting legal immigration if it has a negative impact on the wages of American workers.
"There is considerable bipartisan agreement outside of Washington that we need to improve and streamline legal immigration so that we can remain a nation that welcomes and celebrates legal immigrants," Cruz said in an interview with the Washington Examiner during a brief campaign swing through Las Vegas.after cost estimates came in higher than anticipated.
I think it is a mistake for any politician to on the one hand embrace amnesty, embrace a pathway to citizenship for those who are here illegally, and on the other hand seek to restrict or punish legal immigrants," Cruz continued. "I am the son of an immigrant who came legally from Cuba. [President Ronald] Reagan referred to legal immigrants as Americans by choice and there is no stronger advocate of legal immigration in the U.S. Senate than I am."
"I think the right approach is to secure the border, follow the rule of law and embrace and improve legal immigration," Cruz said.
Walker has conceded a change of heart on immigration policy as he gears up to launch a 2016 presidential bid. The governor, 47, previously supported a pathway to legal status for illegal immigrants. Now he is opposed. Supporting a pathway to legalization or citizenship could be problematic for a Republican candidate seeking his party's White House nomination.
But in a recent interview with conservative talk show host Glenn Beck, Walker appeared to move farther to the right on immigration than even amnesty hawks like Cruz. Here's what Walker said, as reported by Breitbart. (read more)
You said he was going to increase immigration, those are not considered
immigrants, but rather temporary workers.
High skilled Employment Based Visas. Is that wrong? Do you think that's Wrong?
You hate Cruz because of that? HAHA! Walker really doesn't have a chance with
you on his side.
Does Walker want to stop Immigration? You need to answer that because you
support Walker and hate Cruz because of High Skilled Workers who pay taxes.
Right now more people are FOR keeping those here who are here....and there's no power pushing against those coming in.. ...they have stacked the deck large enough already that any opposition is a "minority" when push comes to shove.
Legal and illegal immigrants will hit a record high of ‘51 million in just 8 years and eventually account for an astounding 82 percent of all population growth in America, according to new U.S. Census figures.
As Jeff Sessions said....”Why would many of the largest business groups in the United States spend millions lobbying for the admission of ‘more foreign workers’ if such policies did not cut labor costs?”......
Net immigration this year will be 1.24 million; green cards about 1.1 million.
I liked when Santorum said deporting illegals to sunny Mexico was not exactly like sending them to Siberia.
Most Republicans act like it deportation is capital punishment.
Well stated.
Because the unemployment rate it the USA is really high and we cannot assimilate what we have now. It is ridiculous not turn the immigration facet off now, everyone with an iq above room temperature can see that. Besides it is stupid to import socialist we have enough already.
We've overdone it, get it?
In the "old" days of Ellis Island you had to have a sponsor to live with in the USA. If we go back to that system then your hypothetical relative is welcome. But since we ditched that system they can sty where they are.
The answer is stop immigration and allow market forces to let wages rise. This along with import tariffs would fix every thing. Just do some research on the founding fathers and you will see a pack of wild eyed protectionists.
Well they are manufacturing socialists in our schools and colleges too.
Shall we shut those down as well?
Almost all entertainment has a socialist message in it, practically every single politician in the country is a socialist.
I hate to be a pessimist but, uh, it’s pretty much too late.
Might be a better chance to import those who do believe in freedom from outside this country, because they are certainly not being made inside this country.
The only hope (and it’s a hopelessly thin hope) for the leftists and the establishment to use this issue successfully against Cruz is to try the best they can to mix and conflate illegal immigration with legal immigration.
By itself, legal immigration is not a powerful political issue. It just isn’t.
Believe what you will. But you’ll be far better off if you believe the truth.
One thing I like to advise is that people stop a particular activity which influences them to think in labels, sound bytes and stereotypes. It’s intellectually limiting, morally corrupting and worst of all spiritually devastating.
Your post is one of those kinds of commentary that is so wrong and misguided on so many levels it’s hard to know where to begin.
But back to my original point. If you eliminate television from your life and from the lives of those you care about, you’ll be amazed at the results.
I hereby acknowledge that you’re entitled to your opinion.
But did you know that there are posters on this website whose sole purpose is to influence conservatives like you and me in a way intended to make us think what’s bad is good, and what’s down is up?
Anyway, given this sad reality and the general political atmosphere, I must say it’s just plain weird that half the country is so far off track. It’s not even that they’re lying—to accept truth doesn’t exist is to accept lies don’t exist. And if lies don’t exist, they can say anything.
By the same token, if truth doesn’t exist and the only meaning in life is that of subjective experience, then there is no accountability. This is progressivism in a nutshell. Yet ironically, the only way progressives can communicate (or even think) is to use the language of truth.
So you see, progressivism instills before anything else a sense of having no authenticity. This makes it even harder for progressives, as donkeys chasing the carrot of progressivism, because they think it will bring them long lost authenticity when it only drags them farther and farther away from it.
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