Go, Walker, GO!!
Go, Trump, GO!!
Go, Cruz, GO!!
As Trump and Walker know, those born here are citizens. Any change in the law would not affect anyone born here prior to the effective start date of any law change. And, that’s lots of people. But, the sentiment is clearly broad.
I read earlier that the only Supreme Court case on this is Wong Ark and that was a ruling that children born to legal residents were citizens. Nothing about children born to illegals. So where are they getting authority to issue birth certificates for children born to illegals?
Good thing that the not-a-real-conservative candidate, who has no real clue about what it means to be a conservative, is not having any real influence on the real conservatives.
Let’s ask ourselves this question -— Who do we want to be American Citizens when born here:
1) Babies born here with one or both parents who are citizens
2) Babies born here with one or both parents who are not citizens but have permanent residency
3) Babies born here with one or both parents who are neither citizens nor permanent residents but who are here legally
4) Babies who are born here with BOTH parents here illegally.
Those are the distinctions we have to make and I don’t think our immigration laws make any distinction.
In the USA, categories 1 to 4 above ALL QUALIFY a baby to be American.
Ignoring his previous stand on illegal immigration,
Walker’s present stand is every bit as strong as Trump’s.
As far as I know, the differences are:
Trump wants Mexico to pay for the wall, Walker doesn’t discuss it.
Walker wants legal immigration to be part of the picture, Trump doesn’t discuss it.
For the record, here’s what notorious amnesty-uber-alles advocate John McCain has advocated in the past:
http://www.ontheissues.org/john_mccain.htm#Immigration
Note how much of what he promised to do is as or more hawkish than any of today’s candidates promise.
As a result, I have zero interest in what any of them tell us they would do. I want to know what they’ve already done.
Good original thinking on his part. /s
Hey, Walker—in this case it’s a matter of changing the law (and how it’s interpreted).
Publicly saying you’ll enforce the laws now, in the heat of the race, doesn’t have much credibility when you were advocating amnesty, citizenship and open borders just two years ago.
Now, I think it should be amended, but that's what it would take.
Nor should the children of tourists born in the US. Unless you are a legal permanent resident, there should be no birthright citizenship, jus solis, for your children born in the US.
Walker is so desperate at this point he will say anything. You know he’s for total amnesty. If elected he would not build one mile of fence, secure the border in anyway or do anything to stop an amnesty bill from coming to his desk. He’s GOPe all the way. He’s spiraling out of contention and he just can’t come to terms with it yet.
If Walker had only PUSHED THIS EARLIER, he would have been walking away with it.
Too bad, now it doesn’t look very genuine.
Perhaps if had hadn’t listened to his GOP-sponsored HANDLERS who kept telling him to stay clear of immigration as it’s a ‘divisive issue’, and instead LISTENED TO THE BASE, he wouldn’t be at 4% now.