...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
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.
Latinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
There were a lot of parts in Spanish and I have no idea what they translated to for the most part.
Rand Paul has definitely JUMPED THE SHARK.
I have many times, and other posters also have mentioned the solution.
More than one state has done it.
Enforce all the laws, period.
These states have passed state legislation that not non-citizens can NOT receive any Gov benefits, welfare, food stamps, SSI--NADA nothing!
Illegals have self deported and American citizens have now taken many of the jobs that the illegal alien criminal invading colonists were doing and their economies have gone UP--gotten much better--and unemployment has gone DOWN.
Imagine the economy here in California if a leftist judge had not ILLEGALLY nullified Prop 187 years ago calling it unconstitutional? Which it WAS NOT! It was the people telling the government what they wanted.
It had the provisions mentioned above, no non citizens could receive any Gov benefits etc.
All this talk from the GOP-e and others that say you can't deport 12-20 million people, we don't have enough busses.
What idiots! They will SELF DEPORT if we just enforce the laws on the books at this time.
Many of the illegals that left the states with the new legislation to enforce the laws went back to Mexico.
Many of them went to other states, which are "sanctuary" states and they welcome lawbreakers and will eventually reap the whirlwind of crime and ignoring of laws.
I have an easier time believing 12 million people coming out of the shadows to go on the dole before any of that other stuff happens.
Actions talk, speculations walk.