Posted on 06/12/2014 12:28:44 PM PDT by PoloSec
NEW YORK – The office of Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has issued a statement to WND firing back against any suggestion that his participation in a conference call Wednesday held by a group that supports immigration reform indicates he favors amnesty for illegal aliens.
“Sen. Rand Paul never embraced amnesty on the call,” his office stated in an email. “Sen. Paul has never advocated for amnesty in any other forum and he voted against the Senate immigration bill.
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A column by Paul on immigration was published by Breitbart News Thursday morning. Paul writes that he’s “for immigration reform because I am against allowing 12 million more illegal immigrants into our country.”
“If we do nothing, 12 million more illegal immigrants will come. We must be in favor of reform — smart reform that starts with border security,” he says.
Then he states emphatically: “Characterizing that position as ‘amnesty’ is simply untrue.”
Paul says the status quo “is a lawless border.”
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
If you ever need it, here is the link to that transcript.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1303/19/sitroom.01.html
Rand Paul is a really slick character. Gotta give him credit.
Don’t trust him, but don’t underestimate him.
I don’t underestimate him, I think he sees a path and that he is as sinister and self serving and anti-conservative, as the man he supported and campaigned for, Mitt Romney.
I had hopes for him at one time, but no more.
I don’t think he changed; I think we didn’t yet know the man.
My only interest in him was like my interest in Scott Brown in 2010, to defeat what he was running against, in Paul’s case it was Trey Grayson in the primary (in Brown’s case, it was to have ANY republican take Ted Kennedy’s seat).
Sounds like he made good marriage choices to go with his school choices.
You have a problem with Ted Cruz being married to a successful woman?
Hard to say.
The primaries will sort all this out if he runs.
Harvard Law and the Vampire Squid of finance make me nervous.
Wouldn't it be a nice change to have a First Lady that is an attractive accomplished capitalist rather than a disbarred socialist wookie?
Like I said, that’s why we have primaries.
And hopefully debates moderated by non-MSM affiliated hosts.
Indeed. Thanks for the ping!
Cruz also wants to give all of the illegals work visas. his amnesty plan is the same as Paul’s.
Thomas Sowell is seeing the light:
A quick google will yield numerous articles quoting his support for legalization—aka amnesty.
http://nbclatino.com/2013/03/19/rand-paul-endorses-immigrant-path-to-citizenship/
This is the one issue that will guarantee a perpetual liberal majority. One more pro-amnesty president (like ‘W’) from the GOP will be the last purportedly conservative president this country will ever have.
Rand Paul's immigration speech...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.
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reformLatinos, 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]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
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