Rand Paul Press Release on Immigration (6/12)

[RonPaulMall]

WTF? A couple different media sources are just flagrantly lying - posting headlines that he's pushing for amnesty!

Are these sources intentionally misrepresenting Rand Paul's views on immigration?
The bulk of people commenting on the story at other sites, remain clueless!

There seems to be some kind of PTSD with this issue from the decades of lying!
No one believes anything positve can be done about immigration reform from a conservative standpoint.
They complain, they want a fix, but any attempt at taking action will not be trusted.
What to do?

I think the "what to do?" part is obvious. Rand needs to clearly explain what his position is in regards to amnesty. He says in the press release he's being unfairly accused of being for amnesty, but then explains what his views are in regards to everything other than the amnesty issue. How do you think people are going to interpret that? Like you say, the voters have been lied to for decades on this issue, so if a politician is evasive or vague, they are going to assume the worst.

 

[RandallFan]

An entry-exit system implies that non violent immigrants who overstay and become illegal aliens get deported. Once the system is in place and they are deporting the relative few who overstay it encourages all visitors to leave on time.

Norquist was boasting about Ellmers winning and saying immigration was not a big deal. Ellmers is a woman and an incumbent. They are hard to beat.

Grover supports Renee Ellmers, Thad Cochran and Paul Ryan and calls himself fiscally conservative.

 

[samforpaul]

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[Brett85]

What is the nature of these "work permits"? How long do they last? At what point do the workers have to return to their home country? What about the illegal immigrants who are not workers (students, retirees, stay at home mom's, ect)?

And more to the point, why isn't any of this discussed in the press release? He starts off by saying his view has been wrongly characterized as amnesty, but then goes on to discuss his views on everything but the amnesty issue in his press release.

I think Rand is just in favor of allowing them to stay and work as long as they want to. People might call that "amnesty," but good luck winning a Presidential election calling for the mass deportation of 12 million illegal immigrants. Romney did absolutely awful among Hispanics, and he didn't even call for deportation, but simply "self deportation."