Scott Walker's Nativist Turn on Immigration

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🗓️ 27 April 2015

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Republicans Scott Walker and Ted Cruz may have plenty to argue about on the debate stage when it comes to immigration. Alex Nowrasteh discusses their positions and proposed state-based worker visa programs.

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0:00.0	This is the Cator Daily Podcast for Monday, April 27th, 2015.
0:06.0	I'm Kayla Brown.
0:08.0	Likely presidential candidate Scott Walker has changed his tune on immigration after talking
0:12.0	with legal immigration's chief opponent in the
0:14.2	Senate Jeff Sessions. How do his views differ from his fellow senator Ted Cruz
0:18.9	who is already declared for president? Alex Narasta and immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute offers his thoughts.
0:26.8	Scott Walker used to be fantastic on the issue of immigration.
0:29.7	It was really a Reagan Republican, Paul Ryan Republican on the issue.
0:35.3	He recognized the economic and cultural benefits of legal immigration
0:40.1	to the United States.
0:41.5	He even went so far as to say that the current unauthorized immigrants should be
0:45.8	legalized in this country.
0:47.7	There was a great video of him
0:53.0	saying this in 2013, I believe to Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
0:54.0	answering questions about this.
0:55.5	So for a long time, he's been a stalwart conservative Republican
0:59.6	defender of legal immigration until just a few weeks ago.
1:04.0	What changed?
1:05.0	Well, according to what Governor Walker said, he had some conversations with
1:09.0	Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, who is the most anti-legal immigration senator and he
1:17.0	apparently went down to the border and walked around and talked to some folks and
1:21.4	apparently doing these two things convinced him in his words that a lot of the
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