Or do you have a desire to believe what his detractors are saying he said absent an actual quote from him or an actual vote on a real piece of legislation?
We are, sometimes, our own worst enemies...
Here is a quote.
"I'm really trying to make immigration work, but they are going to have to come to me and they're going to have to work to make the bill stronger if they want me to vote for it," Paul added."
This bill has so many provisions having nothing to do with immigration and everything to do with outrageous violations of civil liberties that it should be scrapped entirely and the process restarted. It is a 1500 page monster. If Paul had said, 'I want immigration reform, but this is not it,' I'd have no problem. The problem is that HIS CHOICE OF LANGUAGE made it possible to construe that he might vote for it after a few tweaks.
We are, sometimes, our own worst enemies...
Indeed. Yet if he gets a promise of 'border security first' and then finds himself trapped into voting for it because of what he said, junior will have participated in a travesty. He's a libertarian at heart, and that group has always believed in open borders as a matter of individual liberty.