Posted on 04/16/2014 8:00:32 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
I forgot the link: http://hotair.com/archives/2013/07/03/video-scott-walker-supports-path-to-citizenship-for-illegals/
One of the comments asks if Walker says what people are trying to assert he is.
If Cruz gets in, everyone else can go home or get on Cruz control.
I think if Cruz get in Sarah Palin will take a pass since her priorities are the same as Cruz’. A Cruz-Palin ticket would result in a landslide win. Neither of them are afraid of going after Hillary.
Conservatives? where are they?
Once again, giving citizenship to illegals is the ultimate amnesty.
But even more than that Walker says he wants however many people from Mexico who want to immigrate here to be allowed to do so legally. He’s an open borders guy, as long as the immigrants walk through his wide open front door.
That is the absolute death of this country.
I hear ya!
Ted Cruz actually authored a bill allowing temporary residency first and then permanent residency.
That is legalization.
Yeah, Cruz isn’t great on illegal immigration.
But the other prospective candidates—especially with Walker’s wide open front door border—are even worse.
Thanks for your post. I will have to study all of them.
If they exist, pictures need to be posted again and again of the damage the union thugs did to the State House protesting Walker’s take-down of the unions. The damage from the duct-taped signs is what I’m thinking about.
“Scott Walker advocating path to citizenship? Not so fast
During the Politico interview, Walker complained about a broken immigration system, and said the U.S. should reduce the barriers to legal entry for people who want to come here and “live the American Dream,” saying, “we should be welcoming those people with open arms.”
Then Walker was asked if he supports a bipartisan approach to give illegal immigrants now living here a kind of provisional status – not necessarily citizenship — to remain in the country.
“I don’t know if that’s exactly (the answer) but there’s got to be some way,” said Walker. “For people waiting to come in our country legally, we’ve got make sure that they get in first, that they get their status first, because they’ve been following the rules, and playing by the rules. After that, if there is a way to set up a process so that you enable people to come in and have a legal pathway to do that, that’s something we’ve got to embrace. Whether or not it’s that specific bill or not, I think there’s some nuances to that.”
While Walker talked about a “legal pathway,” he said nothing about “citizenship.” (Some Republicans support a pathway to legal status for undocumented immigrants but not citizenship.)
Walker also argued that there was too much focus on resolving the status of illegal immigrants and not enough on fixing the legal immigration process to allow more people into the U.S., especially to meet the demand for high-skilled and other workers.You can read a transcription of the relevant parts of the interview here.
Because of the way his comments were reported, Walker was asked again about the citizenship issue in an interview two days later with the Journal Sentinel.
“For the undocumented 12 million that are already here, have you said that you’d support finding a way for them to become citizens?” the governor was asked.
“I haven’t gone into the details of that. What I said in that (Politico) interview and I’ve said in others is we’ve got to balance that, and find a way to fix — my focus is less on a way of dealing with those here — that doesn’t mean it’s not a part of it —but my focus has been on, first and foremost, we’ve got to fix what I think is a broken immigration system just for those that are seeking legal passage.”
Walker was asked: “But you haven’t taken a position on whether the people that are already here should have a conditional pathway to citizenship?”
His answer:
“No. Again I think long term that’s going to be a part of it but I think there are too many people here in Washington who are leapfrogging over everything else and trying to get to that right away. We fundamentally don’t have a system ... to legitimately deal with people who want to come — in fact, I think you would greatly reduce if not outright eliminate the number of people who come in illegally if we had an effective, time-effective particularly, system of dealing with legal immigration.”
Read more from Journal Sentinel: http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/193843901.html#ixzz2zL7YkYd3
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But he says that’s part of the long-term solution, only that he hasn’t gone into the details of it.
Also, he has said he wants everyone who wants to come here, whether they are from Mexico or Germany or wherever, to be able to come here legally. Additionally, as he has said here, if they come and behave themselves, there should be a way for them to gain citizenship as well.
That means, he’s for allowing essentially everyone on the planet to move to the US and if they stay out of legal trouble then become citizens—just as he wants the illegals already here to be able to do.
Please take this in the way that it is said, you are a troll or purposefully mistaking what he said. Either way you are someone I’m going to watch, and have others do the same..
The immigration issue isn’t a minor problem and won’t be solved in an interview, and you know it..
I am neither a troll nor purposely or inadvertently misstating what he said. If I had, you would instead be pointing out where I have misstated his stated position.
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