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Report: Wisconsin’s Scott Walker Endorses Path to Citizenship
WSJ ^ | July 3, 2013 | Rebecca Ballhaus

Posted on 07/03/2013 11:14:35 AM PDT by GIdget2004

Edited on 07/03/2013 11:16:33 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Scott Walker, the prominent Republican governor of Wisconsin, has endorsed a path to citizenship for immigrant workers, in comments that come amid uncertain prospects for the immigration overhaul on Capitol Hill.

A significant percentage of Wisconsin farmers depend on migrant workers, many of whom are currently undocumented

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; scottwalker; walker; wisconsin
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To: onyx

Time to Separate from these worthless Repubs and all DRats. Split the country now!


101 posted on 07/03/2013 1:01:25 PM PDT by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: onyx

Would Ted Cruz agree to a moratorium on all immigration? I read that he is another of those that claim that unlimited legal immigration is beneficial!


102 posted on 07/03/2013 1:04:10 PM PDT by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: iopscusa

RIGHT!


103 posted on 07/03/2013 1:05:01 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: iopscusa

I think he might support that until that border is SEALED.


104 posted on 07/03/2013 1:05:49 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: GIdget2004

I now have such a deep reservoir of distrust towards the GOP that in many ways I can’t say I’m entirely surprised upon hearing about Walker. Especially after Paul Ryan and Marco “Judas Goat” Rubio.

Although I’ve been exclusively a Republican voter my entire life, the chances that I will ever again pull the lever for a Republican candidate gets increasingly smaller by the day. Indeed, if this amnesty goes through, there will be no chance in hell.


105 posted on 07/03/2013 1:08:31 PM PDT by greene66
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To: Jim Robinson

Had high hopes for Walker too.


Ditto :(


106 posted on 07/03/2013 1:12:02 PM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs stay silent.)
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To: kabar

No it doesn’t.

A path to citizenship (in my generation) means that the immigrant applies at the US Embassy and fulfills all requirements until he/she is granted a visa. Then, he/she fulfills all requirements after they are here. Then they take the tests, and if they pass, they are granted citizenship. Unlike natural born citizens, or native born citizens, their citizenship can be withdrawn and they can be deported, if they break the law.

Don’t add a bunch of caveats that were not in my words.


107 posted on 07/03/2013 1:29:28 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Yes it does, but the kinship factor still rewards the most points so 80-85% of the permanent legal immigrants will be based of family reunification. It is not a merit based system, which is why the guest worker program is being doubled.


108 posted on 07/03/2013 1:38:44 PM PDT by kabar
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To: stephenjohnbanker; Moonman62
RE :”How about endorsing the rule of law? “
......
Rule of law? No money in it....”

Obama is now saying he wont even enforce his own Obama-care law, so maybe your idea wont be tried either,.

King: If Obama Wants to Change Health Care Law, ‘He Must Come to Congress’ (Cybercast News Service ^ | July 3, 2013 - 11:59 AM | Susan Jones)

109 posted on 07/03/2013 1:40:39 PM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

You are dissembling, Look at the title of the thread. And do you realize that 60% of all green cards issued annually are change of status cases, i.e., people who are already in the country? The message is get here anyway you can and then use the courts to get what you want. A friend of mine who was a DOJ lawyer in ICE said the saying was, “It isn’t over until the immigrant wins.”


110 posted on 07/03/2013 1:43:20 PM PDT by kabar
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To: sickoflibs

” Obama is now saying he wont even enforce his own Obama-care law”

LOL.....Obama is so lawless, he won’t enforce his own laws.


111 posted on 07/03/2013 1:44:36 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (The RINO/amnesty argument goes like this: 1) If we pander to Hispanics, we will save the GOP, at le)
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To: kabar

You are dissembling. You are trying to make it seem that I wrote something that I did not. Just read the words, or did your education fail to teach you critical reading?

I’m done with you.


112 posted on 07/03/2013 1:45:40 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic; kabar
A path to citizenship (in my generation) means that the immigrant applies at the US Embassy and fulfills all requirements until he/she is granted a visa.

Thanks, that's what I wanted to know. But that's not what it means to Scott Walker, the subject of this article.

113 posted on 07/03/2013 1:54:06 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Fool me once, shame on you -- twice, shame on me -- 100 times, it's U. S. immigration policy.)
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To: kabar
And do you realize that 60% of all green cards issued annually are change of status cases, i.e., people who are already in the country?

Until recently (I noticed a couple of years ago), those in the legal green card process would arrive in this country with a permanent resident visa, and then wait for a change of status/interview/green card. Now it seems that as soon as the arrive here they receive a green card.

What part of that 60% applied for permanent residence the old fashioned way, starting in their own country?

114 posted on 07/03/2013 2:14:09 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Fool me once, shame on you -- twice, shame on me -- 100 times, it's U. S. immigration policy.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Very few. These are generally people who got here on temporary visas and then applied for permanent immigrant visas here. Students who got married to Americans, H1B visa holders who got sponsored for green cards after 6 years of employment, graduate students with needed skills, etc.

Green Card (Permanent Residence)

115 posted on 07/03/2013 2:20:28 PM PDT by kabar
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To: GIdget2004

Et tu, Scott? Well, the Republican party can kiss me goodbye. Is the least they could do after screwing me.


116 posted on 07/03/2013 2:54:59 PM PDT by Wisconsinlady (AMNESTY BY ANY OTHER NAME IS STILL A PIG WITH LIPSTICK)
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To: Moonman62

Governor Walker recognizes that we have a broken immigration system

I am so sick and tired of them quoting the broken immigration system-it is not a broken immigration system, it is a broken enforcement problem of the current lies.


117 posted on 07/03/2013 3:01:00 PM PDT by Wisconsinlady (AMNESTY BY ANY OTHER NAME IS STILL A PIG WITH LIPSTICK)
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To: GIdget2004

Its the Ag lobby behind this.


118 posted on 07/03/2013 3:24:29 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: iopscusa
Would Ted Cruz agree to a moratorium on all immigration? I read that he is another of those that claim that unlimited legal immigration is beneficial!

I hope that he didn't say that. I'd be disappointed, but not terribly surprised given how many others in the GOP of joined the chorus of Mexican bootlicking. Cruz is one of the only voices in the Senate fighting amnesty, so it would be all for naught if he had his own open borders agenda.

Open borders enthusiasts have a number of bait and switch tactics. They're all variations on the theme of "Of course I'm against illegal immigration! So let's solve the problem by making illegal immigration legal!" This can be done through amnesty, or by liberalizing immigration law to the point where anyone can legally enter and stay at any time.

119 posted on 07/03/2013 3:41:38 PM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: kabar; stephenjohnbanker; ConservativeMan55
Now we need to ask.. WHO’S MONEY??

Here'a an interesting article that lists several groups, including (Koch Bros) American for Prosperity...

GOP Groups Offering Cover for Lawmakers on Immigration

120 posted on 07/03/2013 3:44:11 PM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs stay silent.)
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