“It is a noble position as opposed to the duplicitous act of railing against amnesty on one hand while grabbing corporate cash with your other hand in exchange for supporting the gross expansion of H-1B visas.”
This sounds nice and good, and I am definitely open to supporting Walker. What I don’t like though is claiming it is “duplicitous” to have maintained a consistent position against amnesty for illegals and a consistent position of advocating for an increase in LEGAL immigrant visas.
If you don’t agree with his position, just say so, and if that is your “hill to die on”, fine. But I fail to see how being consistently against amnesty and for reforming our legal immigration system is duplicitous.
I also fail to see the nobility in having advocated for a path to citizenship and now taking a general position of “protecting the American worker.” That, to me, seems inconsistent, especially since Gov Walker lays out no specifics about what he would do within the current immigration system to protect the American worker. As with many of his statements, they are so general they could mean just about anything.
I do appreciate your honesty in disclosing you are supporting Walker. Overall, he’s a good man and would make a fine POTUS. I just happen to prefer Cruz even though I may have a difference with him on H1B visas and one or two other issues.
Both amnesty and H-1B visas hold down wages of and/or take jobs from American workers. It’s duplicitous to take jobs away from one class of workers while defending workers of another class.
I will support Walker only as long as he defends American workers and I hope that many more in the GOP field adopt the same position on this issue including Senator Cruz whom I applaud on almost every other issue. Admittedly, Governor Walker has meandered into that position and I am anxious about the specifics of how he will “defend the American worker,” but will support him as long as he does. I truly believe that is why he is enjoying his currently popularity in polls and why Senator Cruz is floundering.