GlennBeck.com
3/20/2013
Senator Rand Paul has been blowing up in the headlines since his epic thirteen hour filibuster a few weeks ago. His CPAC speech received praise from the more conservative wing of the GOP, he’s being labeled as a future leader of the part, there have been a few hints around a possible presidential run in 2016, and, most recently, he has introduced a few bill proposals.
This morning the Senator joined Glenn on radio to discuss a few of those proposals, his immigration bill and his budget proposal. Glenn kicked the discussion off with the immigration bill.
Yesterday, after Rand spoke at the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce to discuss comprehensive immigration reform, the mainstream media started buzzing about the Senator allegedly taking being for amnesty — a “path to citizenship”. Glenn gave Senator Paul a chance to set the record straight.
“Help me out on the ‘path to citizenship’, because that is a red light for a lot of people,” Glenn questioned.
“I think a lot of that was misreported yesterday,” Senator Paul responded, “because in my speech to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce that never came up, the word ‘citizenship’.”
True. In fact, the only time Rand Paul mentioned “citizenship” was when he was referring to himself as a teenager, “not being a model citizen”.
“We didn’t mention citizenship, but what my amendment is called is Trust But Verify. Which means, in the past we’ve been snookered into doing immigration reform with the promise that border security’s going to come later. I think conservatives, if they want conservatives to be part of this and if they want us to support immigration reform, we have to have a guarantee,” Sen. Paul continued. ”We have to have a verifiable guarantee of border security. So in my amendment what has to happen is each year there are certain border security targets that have to be medicine. An investigator general looks at this, the border patrol looks at this, and does a report. We’re going to have the governors of each of the border states look at this as well. And then that report comes back and has to be voted on. The big difference is it has to be voted on by congress. The bipartisan commission is saying, oh, the president will issue a report. But that, to me, means a rubber stamp and not much. So ours is mostly about ensuring border security.”
Sen. Paul clarified that he does not want to create any new path to citizenship…
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