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 against amnesty, snicker, definition of is is ping]
12 million? Does he really believe there are only 12 million? And that they all want to work, not get welfare or deal drugs or grow dope in the National forests, and they want to pay taxes?
And even if they want to work, what about the millions of US citizens who can’t find any?
This is one of the reaons why I have come to loathe Rand Paul!!!
Nobama - what do you think? I think R.Paul is revealing his true self and it’s very bad. Of course this was from March but I remember when his pro-let them all come-immigration views were made public. That is standard libertarian POV. Open borders, let ‘em all come in without any restraint or anything.