Cut me some slack, will ya? I'm workin' on it.
Posted on 02/05/2015 10:53:27 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The candidates, the media, the voters are looking for a magic bullet solution. There isn’t one.
The media have lulled the candidates, as usual, into viewing illegals as a monolith.
The candidates can shake themselves out of their torpor by declaring deportations will resume and pointing out that any illegal who gets so much as a parking ticket will be top of the deportation list.
He’s pro-amnesty.
He’s for it, unless he’s against it.
How is that statement 'pro-amnesty'?
He’s pro-amnesty:
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/scott-walker-supports-path-to-citizenship-
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/07/03/scott-w
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3251354/posts?q=1&;page=1
Don’t care about his position, the law’s extremely clear, and so long as he fulfills his duty as President to defend the constitution and enforce the laws, I have little interest in his immigration viewpoints.
The only ‘leadership’ the media is looking for is an absolutely open borders policy. Anyone who doesn’t support their agenda will be vilified by the media. It is a zero gain issue to even address.
“You hear some people talk about border security and a wall and all that, to me, I don’t think you need any of that if you have a better, saner way to let people into the country in the first place.”
Got that conservatives? We don’t need border security if we just open the floodgates and let everyone in! Why didn’t we think of that sooner?
He’s against “amnesty”, as he defines it, which seems strictly limited to “the legislation being kicked around”.
What he isn’t against is his own idea to reform the immigration system, and somehow deal with the illegals here, without worrying about border security. I’d call that “amnesty”, even if he won’t, and I think most conservatives are probably going to see it that way too.
“Anyone who doesn’t support their agenda will be vilified by the media. It is a zero gain issue to even address.”
Well, I suppose if you are looking for the media’s votes that makes sense.
I’m against expanding legal immigration and, of course, against illegal amnesty in any form.
Walker says his comments were about legal immigration. He wants to reform/fix it and make it easier for foreigners to get into our country legally.
I stand adamantly against that.
At the same time, he did not say (in this article, anyway) that he supports amnesty for illegals.
More like a trillion dollar question.
And that would be their perfect answer.
Doesn’t matter what my position is. As President I would be required to enforce our laws and that is what I would do.
Here’s the problem: Walker is having to move left in his own state to ensure, well, that his own state will vote for him in the primaries which is not a given. A guy who’s polling badly at home? Not very assuring to the LIVers.
Now, assuming he’ll chameleon to secure the left of his own state, how far will he go left to get those chunks that Romney couldn’t? And this is all before the general in Nov. ‘16.
Now, if he wins POTUS, how far will he have to move left to secure his *second* term?
The fact that Walker isn’t moving RIGHT on *any* issue should tell you who he is, he’s Mitt Romney 25yrs younger but now with Mitt’s endorsement, voter base and donor rolls.
Nevermind all the things he’s done: where is the man *going*?
Because it is always followed by...No one is going to deport 11,000,000 .....
Walker is GOPe. A 3rd term of the Booshies.
What is not addressed is the government did not enforce the laws. In the nineties job service would send casual labor’s with documents that didn’t match the person but instead of caring they threatened investigating on eeoc basis. I believe at some point a condition similar to adverse possession exist.
“Making THAT system better and saner will encourage more people to get in line and do it right. And that should be done AFTER the southern border is properly secured.”
I can agree with that position, but that is not the position Walker stated. He thinks we only need to worry about making legal immigration easier, and we won’t need to worry about security. I didn’t make that up, I quoted his own words right there in my post.
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