Rand Paul’s immigration speech
03.19.13 | Hon Sen Rand Paul (KY)
Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2998395/posts
...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Let’s start that conversation by acknowledging we aren’t going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
[but he’s not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
The problem is the 12 Mil... is pretty much definitely more that 30 Mil, and their relatives that will also be allowed to come. The facts on the table are lies.
A very close friend of mine who works for a warehouse store here in California said that they deal with a lot of Middle Eastern men who have stores that sell tobacco and cigarettes. They have multiple wives. They pay up into thousand dollars for the inventory for their store and then the “wife” pays for personal groceries with EBT card. My friend says about one out of every three transactions is EBT and many are these people. We are being ripped off my friend and the RINOS and DEMRATS are all complicit in this. They even have a person who is an employee who owns 15 properties in the area, works for this company and has an EBT card to pay for their food.
By ‘more legal immigration’ I take it that Paul is calling for increased legal immigration, which is idiotic.
For one thing, the vast majority Americans oppose increasing legal immigration, so it shows Paul to be just another elitist when it comes to immigration. Fortunately for him, the media will not inform the public about legislation that would increase legal immigration, like Schumer-Rubio.
For another thing, an increase in legal immigration is likely an increase in future Democrats. Paul is clueless if he thinks small government conservatism appeals to most Hispanics and other immigrant groups.
And finally, if Paul thinks such a position will offer him some protection from the usual baseless charges of racism and of being anti-this or anti-that, then he is an idiot.
It’s unfortunate that Paul has seemingly bought into libertarians’ insane suicidal embrace of mass legal immigration. It’s disappointing because he has me other comments in the past that suggested he might have a clue about immigration. He once suggested that any legalization of illegal aliens be paired with a moratorium or reduction in legal immigration. And after the Boston marathon bombing he was one of the few to question the policies that allowed garbage like the bombers into the country in the first place.
That was apparently false promise.