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Rand Paul has repeatedly denied that he has proposed a pathway to citizenship. He has insisted that he supports a pathway to legal status.

Sorry, but that is just not so.

Rand does support a plan that allows illegals to stay in the US and eventually have a "path to citizenship".
He just objects to calling it a "path to citizenship".

Here is one of many articles revealing his true position on the issue.
If you question the accuracy of this source just Google "rand no citizenship" or ""rand no amnesty" and you will find many others.

Remember - in spite of his invigorating CPAC speech he is still a politician at heart.

Rand Paul: Don't Call My Plan 'Pathway To Citizenship'

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) supports allowing undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States, receive legal status and eventually apply to become citizens. But he would rather not use the term "pathway to citizenship," he said Tuesday.

"I think we're trapped. The immigration debate has been trapped and it's been polarized by two terms: path to citizenship and amnesty," Rand told reporters on a conference call. "Everybody who doesn't want anything to move forward calls every proposal that somebody else wants 'pathway to citizenship' or 'you're granting amnesty.' Can't we have reform and just not call it by some names that discourage the progress from going forward?"

Paul gave an address earlier Tuesday to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce where he laid out his desired plan for immigration reform. A number of news outlets, including this one, reported that Paul had endorsed the idea of a pathway to citizenship, although not using the term specifically. His office insisted later that he had been misinterpreted: he did not want any special avenue for people to become citizens, although his plan would allow them to do so.

The problem with all of this, of course, is that we’ll never get anything to fix this problem, so we’ll be stuck with the status quo of open borders that allow illegals across just about whenever they want. It has 20 million in the country and more will be able to come whenever they want.

That is the status quo.

I despise the status quo. You despise the status quo. We want it fixed, but the opponents really don’t. They want to keep it the way it is.

That means we lose. Nothing at all getting done equals the status quo, loved by democrat politicians and unscrupulous hirers of illegal labor, not to mention drug runners.