Yup. As I said on the other thread, Here’s the facts:
We have a path to citizenship now. It is a good one. People use it every day from all over the world.
Illegal has a clear definition. When one engages in illegal acts, one is a criminal. Regardless of age or bleeding heart liberalism/feelgood forum posts.
The GOP is supposed to be the opposition to Dem liberalism, not act as the ‘lesser evil’ option so people can ‘feel good’ saying that ‘we got some of what we wanted’.
Incrimental approaches work. Ask the Sierra Club.
You either accept criminal ‘citizens’ and the GOP playing Kabuki theater games to get to the end result of illegals here under feel good bullXhit premises, or you do not.
You believe in a functioning border or you do not.
You want the rule of law or you do not.
Period.
Rand is not suggesting citizenship. He is suggesting allowing people who are here a path to a legal working status. He also champions border security, employment enforcement and a bunch of other stuff we support. This approach is a reasonable one. Many here are going to champion the ‘deport or arrest’ approach, but that simply isn’t going to happen. It is not a popular idea, even in most of the states most negatively affected. Texas is a perfect example, they have a much more moderate approach to immigration than Arizona because the political will is not there.
We can continue to ignore all of these problems with the status quo, or we can address them. Frankly getting a good number of these people who can be productive into legal worker status, along with more border enforcement, a modern employment verification system, and more is a reasonable deal.
The fact is, something is going to pass the Democratic Senate and the House leadership is not going to have the will stand just ignore it. Paul’s approach is pretty good. it is better than Rubio and infinitely better than the crap sandwich McCain, Kennedy and Bush tried 6 years ago.