Hey Rand ? should Republicans show criminals who might happen to vote that they are not "just the party of enforcing laws" amd we need to get beyond those silly issues ?
why should Americans grovel and pander to a bunch of invaders of our republic ? that's stupid and anyone who seriously wants you to be president needs to have a few synapses checked.
Well, that one folded...
Rand, we didn’t import them so we won’t have to deport them. Just turn off the magnet of welfare, medical care, schools, jobs, etc. and they’ll quit coming or come, work and go home like they used to decades ago.
It's amazing to me that Rand Paul can be so tone deaf on this issue. As we said, no need to deport, end the gravy train and they will self deport.
Those who say that nothing can be done should be honest enough to admit they support open borders and make their case for that. Short of that they should be told to STFU.
We have a no-win situation. Why? Because the elites in both parties have been running de facto open borders for years. Suddenly they wake up to the fact we're up to our keisters in illegals? How could that have happened?
I want to hear his plan for controlling the border, now...not at some point in the future, not when we've done something else, etc...and until then he has nothing to say I have any interest in hearing about immigration.
For those of you who support Rand for President, do you EVER hear Ted Cruz sound so tepid and apologetic? I’m getting tired of this guy already, save for a few issues. Bob
America needs leaders of principle. Rand Paul is not one.
Well said!
Rand Paul just lost a bunch of votes. What’s his problem? Anyone who caters to illegal aliens - invaders who take our jobs, rape and murder, form violent gangs and cartels, and include terrorists - is NOT standing up for this country.
Strike and you’re done!
Paul would do better to remind hispanics about the Reagan amnesty and to tell them its now time to implement the border fixes democrats agreed to.
Sold out for campaign ca$h.
“[T]he Hispanic community, the Latino community, is not going to hear us until we get beyond that issue.”
Rand, the only thing I care about them hearing is “if you’re here illegally, get out now.”
Frankly, I’m starting to get the idea that the modes of transportation we’re using for deportations are too costly. An old enemy of ours used railway cars, and I’m starting to like that...so long as the end of the line is in Mexico, not Poland...
If that idea ever catches on, a lot of them will wish they had got out while they could still drive themselves in their own cars...
I agree with Rand Paul. We don’t need to deport. Just make it unattractive to come or stay and they won’t. They will go home. If they can’t get a job, apt, medical care, EBT card, drivers license and enroll their kid in school then they won’t come.
Of course its too bad Rand isn’t advocating that. Personally I think the immigration issue is the hardest issue for presidential candidates to face. And the legislature. Its hard to do the hard things. Denying these illegals the items I mentioned in paragraph one bring a cacophony of negative press and denegration down on any politician who tries to advance that approach. Its just so much easier to let them all stay and tell the rest of us its not really amnesty and they will build a fence and make everybody speak English.
I think Rand Paul is pretty clueless. He probably doesn’t deal with many Hispanics or illegals in Kentucky or in DC. He probably deals with some Hispanic consultants who feed him these lines and lies.
If he is going to pander he will at least have to say how many passports and identities illegal aliens are allowed to forge before they get deported.
http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2014/04/01/3421560/senator-voting-against-says-party-beyond-deportations/
“And before he was elected in 2011, Paul called the federal DREAM Act, which would have permanently stopped deportations for undocumented youths brought to the country as children, the “Washington elitists’ roundabout way of giving amnesty to illegal immigrant students and undermining the rule of law.” In 2010, Paul supported Arizona’s harsh anti-immigration law, advocating for local law enforcement officials to check for legal status, one way that could land undocumented immigrants in the hands of federal immigration officials. In 2011, Paul co-sponsored legislation with Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) that would end the constitutional right to birthright citizenship.”