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Posted on 06/08/2025 2:37:19 PM PDT by hardspunned
As the Trump administration makes good on its promise to arrest and deport hundreds of people in the country illegally, Kentucky’s junior senator is offering a solution for those who haven’t committed a crime. When asked recently in an interview how President Donald Trump should handle immigrants who entered the country unlawfully but haven’t otherwise violated another law, Rand Paul said his preference is to institute a work program.
“I’ve always thought the trade-off was this: If you came here illegally, you get to work, you still don’t get to vote and you really don’t get on a track to vote. You came here illegally,” Paul told the Herald-Leader on Jan. 10. “Your punishment is you don’t have a citizenship track, but you get to stay and you get to work. “This is how most of the world operates and it’s not really a harsh system.” It’s an idea with a decades-long history that’s been mired in the messy politics of immigration. There have been proposals to establish temporary legal status, guest worker programs or temporary visas for the millions of undocumented workers who power the agriculture and services industries.
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You do the math. Unlimited cheap undocumented labor plus it’s a good idea for the entire world to have tariff protection EXCEPT the American worker.
Hundreds? How about millions?
Rand Paul needs to STFU!
Rand Paul is mostly an idiot, which is why he will never receive my vote.
Ditto on Rand being an idiot.
His argument falls apart with the first American not hired because of an illegal alien.
ESAD Rand
Ok Rand Paul you run and win the presidency and we will do it your way. Meantime, the rest of us who voted for Trump are fed up with supporting and paying for this illegal garbage. And fed up with guys like you who don’t understand the will of the American people.
Hete is the argument for the BBB from Jack Prosibec: The bbb has a LOT of Immigration enforcement in it. The debt is important. Getting Illegals out, and reversing the invasion is MORE important.
Just lost respect for, and faith in, his thought process, logic and integrity.
That was Trump’s idea-remember? First term. The rats were having none of it. They wanted the voters. How many are now using the app where they self deport? Answer-not enough. Very few. They ain’t leaving on their own. Once the gang-bangers are gone perhaps something can be worked out. No voting could work against us. How about no SSI deductions, just IRA accounts?
After we get the majority of the interlopers out I would support that Let me add no fraudulently based 14th Amendment auto-citizenship for any of their spawn born here.
Here’s the thing about politicians. If they want to move up in the game, they must have name recognition. It doesn’t matter how they get their name out into the public space. You’d think doing or saying something that runs counter to what the audience wants would be a bad thing. But no. The typical voter will remember he saw your name lots of times and he hasn’t seen the person’s name you’re running against nearly as often. So, he votes the name he recognizes. That’s probably the majority of voters, which is what makes AOC so scary. Put her up against someone with half the name recognition who is balding and frumpy, and it matters not how awesome that guy is. He’ll come up short on votes.
“to arrest and deport hundreds of people”
Hundreds? Only off by four orders of magnitude.
It’s MILLIONS. 40 years of post ‘86 Amnesty chain immigration and the associated illegal immigration - Tio Hector has a couch and a yob for me in El Estados Unidos! - brought well over 60 million people, at least half illegally. Ten million under Biden alone.
Couple hundred wouldn’t even move the needle.
Rand forgot about the free healthcare they get every time they visit the ER. We all pay for that subsidizing those who employ the illegals and pay nothing for their health insurance. Factor that into overhauling ObamaCare.
Robert DeLong wrote: “Rand Paul is mostly an idiot, which is why he will never receive my vote.”
ClearCase_guy wrote: “Ditto on Rand being an idiot.”
It’s hereditary.
I want them gone to the greatest extent possible. Employers should face ruinous fines if they have employees who are not legally here. Landlords should face ruinous fines if they have tenants who are not legally here.
I want to push the envelope for how thoroughly and completely we can get rid of these people. Lets test the limits and see how far we can get.
How many RINOs did it take to replace the TRAITOR Juan McCain?
TWO.
Goober has got the Neocon war profiteering covered and Rand covered the rest.
Rand Paul looking to be the RINO maverick just like Juan McCain claimed to be.
Rand Paul: “I’ve always thought the trade-off was this: If you came here illegally, you get to work, you still don’t get to vote and you really don’t get on a track to vote. You came here illegally,””
The liberal left will never agree to his plan. They want full citizen ship and the right to vote. Besides, there is a cost to allowing the illegals to stay which far offsets their contributions to our society.
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