Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
WASHINGTON — Sen. Rand Paul is calling for conservatives to embrace the cause of immigration reform, outlining a proposal that would grant some form of legal status to the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants after the federal government has certified that the border is secure.
Paul’s proposal, outlined in a speech to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Washington on Tuesday, carefully avoided the term citizenship. Instead, the Kentucky senator said he sought a middle ground that would include a multi-year process of granting visas to undocumented workers that would hinge on the annual verification of the security of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Paul echoed the key finding of an internal review from the Republican National Committee that called for the party to recast its image in order to attract minority voters, saying the GOP must change the perception of the party as anti-immigrant.
Latinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but “Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration.”
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If he’s not talking citizenship, I am listening. I would like to see a worker program to deal with this problem. We have to get these millions of people into a legal status. I don’t want to see that be a path to citizenship. Essentially, it is a do-over. Combine that with border control, enforcement of business laws and deporting criminals, and that is reasonable. If the person breaks the law, legal worker or to, then they go bye bye.
30 million now
millions more each year due to increased quotas
chain immigration over twenty years
easily 125 million foreign nationals become U. S. Citizens over twenty years
and people will still cross our borders illegally no matter what we do
They've been using that number for almost 20 years now. What they don't want you to know is that they are breeding like rabbits. And we pay for it!
Let’s use Arizona’s plan:
The overarching theme was a push for “attrition through enforcement” — passing strict laws designed to deter more illegal immigrants from coming to Arizona and to encourage those already here to leave.
Good grief. He was my last resort. There’s not a damn one of them that’s worth a s@#$%.
As sick as the country is presently even 20 million illegals legalized immediately would be more than enough to transform this country in ten years into another Brazil demographically, socially, geostrategically, etc.
Rand and Marco are just stuck on stupid —
Eisenhower a Republican President took care of illegal Mexicans : he deported Mexicans deep into Mexico . that is the only solution, not a 1500 page Amnesty bill that will let in the 100 million you say it will.
We have to agree to disagree on some points. I think they will self deport but i will not argue your point.
We agree on the point about making them work but I think they should be put to work building the fence to keep their relatives out of our cou.try
Spit*
But then they wouldn't be conservatives.
translation the elitist establishment said if you want to keep your seat and have the money and the power you have now then go along with our agenda
round up all illegals—sentence them to ten years of labor in Slave Factories where they earn 50 cents a day. then make cheap cloth to sell to China. using slaves we could make it cheaper than China. We would demand that Mexico send us slaves for the factories at lease a half million a year. No rights, no health care—Just work.
Rand is socially conservative, HUH, I;m sure you’re aware how he gave a big present to the homostapo over marriage about a month ago.
sorry the post was meant for someone else
HUH Rand socially conservative, I take you don’t know about him giving that nice present to the homosexuals and about marriage then about a month ago
Episcopalian Church.
H ha ha socially conservative because he;s a member of that church, stop, no please stop making me laugh my sides are splitting.
he;s trying to appeal to Hispanics, are you seriously saying all of this or are you being sarc, because in your posts on this thread you have come out with some whoppers
problem wit some voters is that they support a guy for a few years and then get their head stick up their ass when that person adopts more liberal policies .
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