Immigration strategy proposed at CPAC: 'Let's put a wall around the welfare state'
21.05.12
Alex Nowrasteh of the Competitive Enterprise Institute said conservatives and libertarians are unified like at no other time, while Obama and Congress are tearing at “the fabric of economic liberty.” Competitive Enterprise Institute funders include the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation.
Nowrasteh said he opposes illegal immigration, but “the enemy is the welfare state.”
“Let’s put a wall around the welfare stare, not around our country,” he said.
He also spoke about the problems with different visas for foreign workers who want to come to the U.S. and exalted Reagan’s views on immigration as the best views for conservatives.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach , the co-author of Arizona and Alabama immigration enforcement laws and a supporter of Mitt Romney, said the government should enforce programs like E-Verify, a federal workforce authorization program.
Kobach said that he never imagined the Department of Justice would sue states for their immigration laws. He argued that Congress has passed law after law to call on states to help the federal government with immigration policy, saying it is the Obama administration that does not want to allow states to have laws like the ones that exist in Arizona and Alabama, which implement “attrition through enforcement” or what Romney recently called “self-deportation.”
Source: The American Independent