Posted on 04/13/2013 3:00:06 AM PDT by Celtic_Storm
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This article is old and outdated. Rand Paul did not join the gang of eight and is not actively promoting any immigration reform.
Did he not say “we have de-facto amnesty” before a camera?
BTW, I do not consider a late March 2013 statement on TV (actually on Fox) as ‘old and outdate’ and indicative of a history-gone-past thought that no longer need be considered.
Yes and it’s true. Illegal immigrants with criminal records are being released by the DHS and nobody is getting deported. That’s a fact. I don’t know what’s so controversial about this statement.
It isn’t the fact he said “Defacto”. It is the impression that I get from him as he is resigned to the fact of it and oh-so-willing for immigration reform, not of the kind that protects this country’s sovereignty.
Listen to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjezuKG1jW0
Several questions are posed to him by a WNDTV reporter and he talks at length on this. His main theme is “fix the border” and then ‘normalize’ these people. He is very vague about just exactly what ‘normalize’ is, but it does include work visas, ‘getting them into the process’, paying taxes, etc. He even goes to the canard “there are some jobs (agricultural) that Americans WON’T do” and if they didn’t we’d starve. Horseshit. Growers would be forced to raise wages and the prices would go up - capitalism.
I am all for ‘fixing the border’. I am against legalizing any invader I don’t care how long they have been here. They are, in fact, criminals - willing or unwilling. And, his extended answers to the WNDTV series of questions gives me the willies. If he gets his version of ‘fixing the border’ it seems he’s willing to bend over backwards to legalize these 11 million (actually much more than that).
I’m not buying it.
Haven’t you figured out by now that that’s how the GOPe works?
Rand has been welcomed into the club in large part because he supports amnesty. He can maintain his position as titular head of a good chunk of the rubes in the dreaded ‘base’ by not going all Rubio over it. But he has explicitly said he supports it and he’s not making the stink that he’s more than capable of making to wake up voters to the GOP-ocrat conspiracy.
Even Sarah Palin, another vaunted leader of another sector of the rube base has been absolutely, totally, pristinely silent on the subject, while being silent on little else. She may have made nice with Jan Brewer, the guv of her ‘second state’ around the subject a couple of years ago, when the GOP was executing a feint toward resistance on the subject. But she has also clearly stated that there’s no difference between her and McCain’s views on the subject after the first time he tried to get amnesty through.
Ted Cruz? Is he the only one? The only national-level GOP pol against it? Yes, he has said he opposes aspects of it, but he too has said so only nicely and quietly.
This is a quiet coup being executed by our elected pols and we’re letting them get away with it.
You can’t be serious, can you?
Old and outdated......Really? You mean he has changed his story again since it was written? And please provide his latest description and name for amnesty, without calling it amnesty.
is not actively promoting any immigration reform......
For somebody who is not promoting something, he sure as hell talks about it a lot.
Just face it, he is a traitor.
It isn’t controversial. It is a red herring , it smells fishy and nobody is buying. I already destroyed the “de facto amnesty” canard in my initial post.
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