Posted on 07/20/2015 3:46:00 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Walker handled it pretty much perfectly.
During the summer of 2013, we began to see immigration amnesty activists use the Why do you want to deport my daddy? tactic against Republicans.
The tactic involves sending children to confront candidates — with the video rolling. It all was a set up, in the hope the candidate would do something stupid or mean.
Most famously, Speaker John Boehner was confronted by well-coached children while eating at his usual breakfast spot:
(video at source)
A similar confrontation just happened to Scott Walker, and it was all a set up by a “social justice” activist group seeking to stop deportations.
The Washington Post reports, Scott Walker tells undocumented worker that immigrants must follow the law:
As presidential hopeful Scott Walker toured a farm in this tiny town where he lived as a child, he was confronted by an undocumented worker from Mexico who is living in Wisconsin and demanded to know why Walker does not support President Obama’s plan to give temporary status to some undocumented workers, including parents of children who were born in the United States.
“We’re a nation of laws,” Walker, the Republican governor of Wisconsin, repeatedly told Jose Flores, 38, who was joined by two of his four children, Luis, 7, and Leslie, 13, who had tears rolling down her cheeks throughout the exchange. Flores, who lives in Waukesha and works for a medical supply factory, said he and his wife live in fear of being deported and separated from their children, who he said were all born in the United States….
It was an opportunity for Walker to demonstrate how he calmly fights back against challenges from activists. He was forceful as he told the Flores family that immigrants must follow the rules, but he added, “I completely sympathize with the situation you’re all in and others are in.”
One of the activists, Sam Freeman of Wisconsin’s Voces de la Frontera, cut the governor off and shouted, “So that’s why you want to separate their family?”
The WCF Courier reported that the Voces de la Frontera not only had an activist present, it arranged the confrontation:
Walker further demonstrated his calm political style during a brief meeting meeting in Plainfield with Jose Flores and his children, Leslie, 13, and Luis, 7, about his position on immigration.
Flores traveled from Waukesha, Wis., aided by the immigration advocacy group Voces de la Frontera, to get Walker to explain his opposition to the federal orders that provide immigrants who came here illegally a temporary legal status.
At the 2:55 mark the father has the child ask an obviously rehearsed question:
“Do you want me to come home, come from school and my dad gets reported?” [sic]
(video at source)
“So that’s why you want to separate their family?”
The goal is to shift the blame for the children’s difficult emotional situation from the law-breaker to the law-maker.
Walker handled the confrontation pretty much perfectly.
What the activists want is the Republican candidate either to run away and refuse to engage, or to get nasty or upset.
Walker stayed on a message that both is correct and will play well with the electorate — no one is above the law, not the illegal immigrant nor the President of the United States.
The 2013 confrontations did nothing to advance the amnesty advocates’ agenda. The 2014 elections were a complete blow-out for Republicans.
While I’m not predicting 2016, I am predicting that these contrived confrontations and use of children as political props will backfire on the amnesty advocates — so long as the Republican candidate stays calm and on message.
Amnesty activists confront Scott Walker at campaign stop (Voces de Frontera)
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What a bitch coward to hide behind a kid so you can get away with breaking the law.
The “crying” boy is more of a man.
Separate the family?
What kind of parent would leave their children behind?
My kids go where I go.
Separate the family? Hell no, the parent's native country should pay for their education.
Question : Why do you want to deport my daddy?
Answer: Because he’s an illegal insurgent... breaking american law.. and a mexican national.. if not guilty of some other crimes.. and you too might be deported as well.. and your mother grand parents and some of your friends..
NEXT!....
Your daddy broke the law and that is supposed to have consequences.
So if two parents commit a crime, or if one parent is in jail, then the other parent should NEVER be convicted of any crime, because of the child? Sorry, it doesn’t work that way. If your parenting skills are so terrible that you both break the laws and risk getting arrested, then YOU are to blame for your child becoming a ward of the state (or Mexico), not those who enforced the laws. Have a wonderful day, sir.
We can thank William Rawle, and deliberately misinterpreting the 14th amendment for this Bullsh*t.
Under the correct and proper understanding of US Citizenship, just being born in this country isn't enough. You must be born here while you're parents owe no allegiance to another nation.
PING
Surprising that Walker would stoop to the level of ERIC CANTOR in order to try to show he’s tough on Illegals (remember when Cantor had his friend, Gutierrez, was doing the same, just before Cantor lost his Primary).
...but then given Walker’s record on Amnesty being almost the same as Cantor, and Walker using the SAME ADVISER as Cantor (not sure if he’s gay), I can’t say I’m surprised...although one would think that given what happened to Cantor, Walker might want to try something else.
No, I want your father to follow the rules and laws, and not get arrested or deported. But if he does, it is not the fault of those who enforce the laws. It is your father's fault. You must ask him why he wants to risk being separated from you. I cannot answer that question.
GO Governor Walker!
“Separate the family”... what nonsense. When they are deported, the children are free to join them in Mexico, or wherever they are from. I find it hard to believe their native land wouldn’t accommodate them in that.
That is what the want. They want a sound bite to send to the LIVs.
Walker will have to handle it carefully.
So you think it’s a setup, eh? Interesting, I hadn’t thought of that, but it wouldn’t surprise me that a politician would dream that up.
It's taken a couple of decades.. but almost there. The corrupt Mexican government wants to establish its control over its "citizens living abroad" (even if born in the U.S.) and no doubt likes the controversy described in the aritlce as it creates "victims" of the U.S.
prior to the 1980s
There were Mexican government efforts to
But nothing in the former like today.
1980s Legal immigration
Under President Salinas
Mexico's
became very active in the U.S.
By 1990 Mexican policy had
1990s legal immigration
Mexico wanted Mexican-Americans to
President Ernesto Zedillo (1990s) spoke to Mexican-American politicians telling them
1980s and Beyond Illegal immigration
The Immigration Control and Reform Act (IRCA) in 1986
Mexican Policy & Émigré Communities in the U.S.
And then there is the emergence of hometown philanthropic clubs that send multi-billions of dollars to Mexican communities saving all levels of the corrupt Mexican government from having to depart with a peso to help its citizens. A better term is
Meanwhile if that money remained in the hands of the ILLEGAL aliens (undocumented workers) would they need taxpayer support for food, housing, healthcare, education, and all other transfer payments that states and communities provide them?
IMO it's the way the corrupt government of Mexico "taxes" its citizens in its "Nation without borders."
So yes, undocumented workers do pay taxes.
More at these FR threads: Federations give Mexicans voices and Immigrant Mexican philanthropic groups turn toward politics
On to Prop 187 and today..
Today's anti-U.S., anti-Trump rancor is exactly like the National Republican-Democrat coalition against California Prop 187 voters.
More from the study..
The Mexican government weighed in during the campaign for Prop 187 with Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari asserting that
(Salinas knew that Mexico did not have the means to use economic sanctions against the US or California to protest the approval of Prop. 187.)
Ernesto Zedillo, who followed Salinas as Mexico's President eagerly weighed in and
Before leaving office President Salinas suggested a guestworker program and Governor Wilson announced his support for a program to import Mexican guestworkers.
But the incoming Zedillo Administration knew that
The return of a guestworker program had little chance.
The 1994 Prop 187 passage got immediate action..
Leaders of several Central American countries [told] President Clinton that their economies must grow faster in order to stem the flow of illegal immigrants to the north. Central American leaders [began] an intensive lobbying effort to prevent the return of their citizens after the passage of Prop. 187 and the threat of not renewing temporary protected status for El Salvadorans.
Passage of Prop 187 was met with instant appeals. But it took years to get the initial federal court to act on the appeals.
In Nov. 1997: "Proposition 187, as drafted, is not constitutional on its face," Judge Mariana R. Pfaelzer declared.
A year later Gray Davis was elected and IIRC one of his first acts was to fly off to Mexico City and later let it be clear that he would NOT appeal Pfaelzer's decision. Gov. Wilson was committed to appeal all the way to SCOTUS. Is that why Pfaelzer took so long. IIRC the Wilson administration pressured her to act and filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Governor Davis worked out some kind of deal that killed Prop 187 and dropped the court actions.
So the Administration, the courts, the legislative branch saying "F-you Americans!" is nothing new..
the autoimmune disease of the body politic appeared decades ago.. it's just been found to be caused by unstable radicals occupying buildings on the Beltway campus and something called crony capitalism. Now on the cure to save the life of the United States of America.
Lots of drama queens, manipulations and liars on the left... odd how they’re never called on the carpet to apologize...
Speaking of getting caught, it doesn't appear that Mr. Flores is TOO worried about being deported, what with all the security, TV cameras, etc.
Or -
Walker: “So you say that you are here illegally Mr. Flores?”
“Yes”
“Well, then I am making a citizen's arrest and calling ICE. And they can take of this matter. Thank you for your questions.”
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