Scott Walker supports a path to citizenship
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Friday that he supports a pathway to citizenship to illegal immigrants but said that people who are waiting in line should have “first preference.”
“You’ve got to find a way to say that people who are in line right now have first preference,” the Republican governor said at POLITICO’s third annual State Solutions Conference in Washington. …
Walker said that in addition to not having enough visas for immigrants is that the system in general is broken.
“We just have a broken system. And to me, if somebody wants to come in and live the American dream and work hard … we should have a system that works and let’s people in,” Walker told POLITICO’s Jonathan Martin at the event.
He added: “The vast majority of people want to come here for the right reasons. They want to live the American dream.”
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BigGator5 on February 23, 2013 at 9:21 AM
The vast majority of illegals are here to work, not to live the American dream.
If they were able to obtain multi-year work permits they wouldn’t have to sneak in. When they sneak in they wind up stuck here because after risking their lives to get here, why leave?
If we want illegals to leave then give them work permits.
Why don’t we ask the illegals what it is they want? They don’t want citizenship. It’s the Democrat party and ethnic lobby that want to give them citizenship. Why? Votes, the advancement of the Liberal agenda, the destruction of the USA as founded.
If we give illegals citizenship they will no longer work for peanuts so their employers will look for another crop of illegals to take their pace. Then we’ll have a large population of newly unemployed new citizens.
Charlemagne on February 23, 2013 at 9:26 AM
Of course he does. So do Rubio, Palin, Perry, and a host of others. In fact other than Mitt “self deportation” Romney, I can’t name one serious (R) politician who doesn’t. Oh I suppose Santorum will run on “Line up those cattle cars and point them South !!”
Marcus on February 23, 2013 at 9:27 AM
Ted Cruz it is then. That’s who I like (currently) and thats who I want.
bluegill on February 23, 2013 at 9:28 AM
Of course Walker does, how do you think the survived the recall? Elections in this country have been rigged for quite some time. Votes don’t count any more. People only think they do because state run media polls tell us the outcome in advance.
bgibbs1000 on February 23, 2013 at 9:43 AM
Elections aren’t rigged. But we do need to go after voter fraud.
And what do Walker’s comments here even have to do with that, anyway? Nothing.
bluegill on February 23, 2013 at 9:49 AM
Yeah, sure. Of course there is a path to citizenship. It’s called: the path that they have now.
besser tot als rot on February 23, 2013 at 9:52 AM
The tears of many idealists who become cynics fall today.
thebrokenrattle on February 23, 2013 at 9:54 AM
easy soultion. Have any immigrant illegal or legal sign a form that they give up all legal rights for welfare And/or help from the state in return for citizenship for say 10 years. I doubt many will take that “pathway to citizenship”
The problem isn’t immigration. Its the welfare state. Solve the welfare state and you solve the immigration “problem”
unseen on February 23, 2013 at 9:58 AM
Down goes Walker.
The list is exhaustive.
If people want to come to America, there should be a system that works to get them here?
Since when do non citizens’ wants trump citizens’ needs?
Some day we need to cut immigration and force those here to finally become a part of the melting pot, instead of one of many disparate and balkinized cultures.
astonerii on February 23, 2013 at 10:10 AM
I find your logic difficult to refute, and therefore your character must be impugned. You are scoundrel and worse. Be gone.
Jaibones on February 23, 2013 at 10:13 AM
Gosh… Why are so many people surprised and upset? I could have told you that Walker supported the Rubio framework a month ago. Ryan and Walker are BFFs, they have the same political positions, and there is no way that Walker would give Ryan a political headache on this by opposing him.
Illinidiva on February 23, 2013 at 10:17 AM
I think that even Santorum has made noises in support of immigration reform. What wouldn’t shock me is if Christie has a 180 degree change of heart on this issue when his campaign begins imploding at the end of 2015. (I see the vaunted Rubio-Christie showdown playing out like the FL senate race with Christie starring as the Oompa Loompa. Jetboy‘s new favorite Republican is Christie after all.)
Illinidiva on February 23, 2013 at 10:20 AM
I think there must be some of that in his rhetoric…the devil is in the details of this pathway. Getting in line behind those with existing immigration applications is a really deep hole. It has been pointed out that this line is more than 10 years long.
Jaibones on February 23, 2013 at 10:21 AM
I can promise you that “immigration reform” will not reform anything. Reform in political speak is something quite different. Laws aren’t being enforced on purpose and these morons think amnesty and a promise that new laws will be enforced will make things better? Well, they probably don’t, but it will convince the sheeple. The welfare rolls are going to explode even more than they already have. New illegal aliens will come in to replace the legalized ones and in 20 years we will be looking at the same situation we are in now. I’d rather maintain the status quo.
Did anyone really believe Romney was going to do a better job of securing the border and enforcing immigration law? You could tell by the way he talked about it that he was pretending to be conservative just like his 47% comment.
Wigglesworth on February 23, 2013 at 10:28 AM
After all this Hispandering, I can’t wait to watch the 2016 GOP nominee lose the Hispanic vote 70-30 to the Dem nominee just like clockwork.
Kataklysmic on February 23, 2013 at 10:32 AM
As expected. Which means that theres not even 1 top level republican whos against CIR.
tommy71 on February 23, 2013 at 10:40 AM
God damn it. Is there no one who we can turn to and be proud of?!
nobar on February 23, 2013 at 10:49 AM
I hear/read from those proponents of this ruse, that “our immigration system is broken,” (interesting how that phrase is repeated so precisely by that category of politician/activist) so that, so they claim, the majority of those in the US illegally “have no pathway to legal immigration” so they’re here illegally. Meaning, the claim is there’s this “broken system” whereby illegal aliens don’t have employers who can work the system for green cards so they’re therefore illegal, the aliens are.
Illegal aliens are of that category above. IF they claim they “have no pathway to come here legally” then they AREN’T QUALIFIED TO BE HERE. ANS, worse, they’ve opted to cast aside all propriety and come here illegally, or stay here illegally after overstaying visas, further emphasizing that they lack character to be here in the first place.
So I do not see anything ” broken” about what exists except our lack of enforcement against those in the nation illegally. Send them away.
Lourdes on February 23, 2013 at 11:17 AM
But Cruz can’t be President.
SnarkVader on February 23, 2013 at 11:19 AM
The short of it: Mexico has an entire economic leg that holds it’s nation together that is defined by sucking money from the U.S. That’s what McCain is trying to see continue.
Lourdes on February 23, 2013 at 11:20 AM
Yes, and we all who are paying attention understand that that will surely take place. Just like we KNEW McCain as GOP nominee was going to lose.
It’s sad watching the GOP try to compete theatrically with the DNC. The GOP only succeeds when it stops or refuses to play that game.
Lourdes on February 23, 2013 at 11:22 AM
Yes, I do think Romney would have done a better job…combined with his plans/goals to generate better economic conditions in Central America from whence most of the illegal aliens in US originate.
Lourdes on February 23, 2013 at 11:25 AM
Very true. It’s nonsensical as we’re now being told that any “path to citizenship” is going to alter our nation for the better. It wouldn’t, it would only double-down on current depressive conditions.
Lourdes on February 23, 2013 at 11:27 AM
Wonderful. Pander, pander, pander.
Has anyone watched the new series House of Cards on Netflix? It’s disturbing and mirrors reality far too much.
conservative pilgrim on February 23, 2013 at 11:37 AM