Posted on 11/17/2013 2:52:55 PM PST by SoConPubbie
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) says he supports a pathway to citizenship for immigrants living in the country illegally as part of an overhaul of the nation's immigration system.
"If people want to come here and work hard and benefit, I don't care whether they come from Mexico or Ireland or Germany or Canada or South Africa or anywhere else," Walker said Tuesday during an interview with the Daily Herald Media Editorial Board of Wisconsin. "I want them here."
Walker was then asked about the estimated 11 million immigrants living in the country illegally. The editorial board asked if he could "envision a world where with the right penalties and waiting periods and meet the requirements where those people could get citizenship?"
"Sure," Walker responded. "I mean I think it makes sense."
Walker's comments came roughly a week after the Democratic-controlled Senate passed a bipartisan immigration reform proposal that includes a pathway to citizenship.
The proposal strengthens border security along the U.S.-Mexico border by doubling the length of fencing across the border and also doubling the number of border patrol agents. Walker said he had not fully reviewed the Senate bill and has not taken a position on the legislation.
Walker's comments separate him from some conservative House lawmakers who have said they cannot support the Senate immigration reform bill because it includes a pathway to citizenship.
"Not only do they need to fix things for people already here, or find some way to do it, there's got to be a larger way to fix the system in the first place," Walker said. "Because if it wasn't so cumbersome, if there wasn't such a long wait, if it wasn't so difficult to get in, we wouldn't have the other problems that we have" of immigrants living in the country illegally.
Walker is not the only prominent Wisconsin Republican to support immigration reform. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has also called for his chamber to pass an immigration overhaul. Ryan recently said the Senate bill's enhanced border security measures make the proposal more likely to pass the House.
"I think that, that passing makes this final passage more likely," Ryan said in late June.
The 6 month article that you are posting has been refuted.
His views are no different than Cruz’ legislation that would offer permanent residency.
If SoConPubbie wishes to be dishonest, then so be it.
The Journal Sentinel states:
” Walker never mentioned citizenship in his comments.”
Since that original “Amnesty”
Immigration reform has become the equivalent of Amnesty.
Every freekin time.
The illegals are here to stay and there should be no doubt about that. So what do we do with them? And lets quit this simple minded crap about sending them back, it cannot be done! So grow up and lets come up with practical real solutions. The border should have been closed but over the years those we trusted both Democrats and Republicans screwed us.
I got no issue with immigration.
We are a nation of immigrants.
I just hate this grey/gray mumbo jumbo
Immigration reform does not equate to Amnesty for one group.
How feasible do you think those points are?...they look great on paper, but politically speaking, pretty tough to implement even with a majority in the both houses of Congress...
Big business wants illegals to keep wages down...they own many congress critters on the right
Don't by into the left-wing media and corporate controlled GOP-E spin. It's not true.
LOL...Seriously, you think I do?
Incomplete facts perhaps, but should Reagan not have known that the law enforcement provisions would be ignored? There was no dearth of evidence back then that the Democrat party of Henry Jackson and Hubert Humphrey had been vanquished by the Democrat party of Ted Kennedy and Tip O’Neil. I have the same reverence for Reagan that most conservatives do, but I do wish that he had the same wariness of the homegrown left that he did of the international left. There are also times that I wonder If he really understood the level of duplicity and cravenness that existed in his own party.
Yo Scotty! They aren’t after “citizenship.” They’re after U.S. dollars and government handouts. Comprende?
You can not seal the border via the Fed
1% of land in Texas is federal land.
That means 99%of Texas is PRIVATE land.
Now here come some asshats in Virginia telling us what to do.
That aint gonna wash.
Texas would be happy to patrol its own fence line and we do.
But her comes some jackass in DC that say we can’t deport the “Guest worker”
It Is Maddening! let the states have rights!
Give CITIZENS rights over Illegals.
Do they not know that WE know the only reason the immigration system isn't working is because of THEIR failure to enforce it, and we do not believe they will enforce any reformed system?
Bump to your post!
I’d also like to add:
75% tax on all monies shipped to Mexico.
its a signal
he’s going to enter the 2016 GOP POTUS primaries
Lest we forget: The states do have ample, substantial [Constitutionally guaranteed, so it is written] rights. But they have been filched away by totalitarians while derelict protectors of those rights slept.
Self Deport only works if you have zero legalization and stop as many freebies as possible.
Even if the border and ports were 90% secure and suddnely you legalize millions, the border is going to be less than 90% secure when there is largest wave of illegals ever after tghe largest amnesty.
Illegals arent immigrating because of some multicultural utopia they believe in. They are immigrating because the standard of living is higher.
Mexico and the US have a income differential larger than any other international border. One day it might be Mexico and Guatemala.
Maybe North Korea and South Korea have a bigger difference.
Walker believes that any poor worker should be allowed to immigrate. It is nothing to Walker and others that you double or triple legal low skilled immigration.
What does Walker mean by a saner system. Repealing Chain immigration and future anchor babies?
The illegals have a path to citizenship. They can return to their home county.
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