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The GOP dilemma on immigration (MSM duped by Rand Paul, again) [View all]
The GOP dilemma on immigration
Posted by Greg Sargent
Senator Rand Paul gave a much anticipated speech today on immigration reform that ended up being more revealing about the GOP’s struggles on the issue than you might have expected it to be. There was mass confusion about whether Paul supports a faster path to citizenship — confusion which itself shed light on the difficulties the GOP will face with the right wing if the party embraces something approaching real reform.
Initial reports said Senator Paul would outline in his speech a faster path to citizenship. This led to optimism that real reform is within reach, since it would be meaningful if a conservative like Paul — who’s eying a presidential run in 2016 — joined with Republicans like John McCain, Marco Rubio, and Lindsey Graham, who have embraced a path to citizenship. But then Paul’s advisers quickly clarified that he didn’t support a faster path to citizenship at all — and that his speech didn’t even mention a path to citizenship, instead focusing on legal status. This led to amusing headlines, such as this one on the New York Times homepage: “Paul implies support for citizenship path.”
What’s more, in the speech, Paul said he doesn’t support reform unless it comes with a Congressional vote deeming the border secure before any path to legal status can occur — which puts him to the right of McCain and Rubio.
All of this matters because it tells us how hard it is going to be to get conservatives to embrace anything approaching real reform. We don’t even know what Paul supports on citizenship right now — he appears to be trying to keep it vague. Either Paul supports a path to citizenship that the bipartisan “gang of eight” in the Senate backs — which would result in citizenship in 13 years — but subject to a Congressional vote on border security. Or he supports the framework preferred by GOP Rep. Raul Labrador that would result in legal status but not citizenship for most of the 11 million undocumented immigrants here.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/03/19/the-gop-dilemma-on-immigration/
Posted by Greg Sargent
Senator Rand Paul gave a much anticipated speech today on immigration reform that ended up being more revealing about the GOP’s struggles on the issue than you might have expected it to be. There was mass confusion about whether Paul supports a faster path to citizenship — confusion which itself shed light on the difficulties the GOP will face with the right wing if the party embraces something approaching real reform.
Initial reports said Senator Paul would outline in his speech a faster path to citizenship. This led to optimism that real reform is within reach, since it would be meaningful if a conservative like Paul — who’s eying a presidential run in 2016 — joined with Republicans like John McCain, Marco Rubio, and Lindsey Graham, who have embraced a path to citizenship. But then Paul’s advisers quickly clarified that he didn’t support a faster path to citizenship at all — and that his speech didn’t even mention a path to citizenship, instead focusing on legal status. This led to amusing headlines, such as this one on the New York Times homepage: “Paul implies support for citizenship path.”
What’s more, in the speech, Paul said he doesn’t support reform unless it comes with a Congressional vote deeming the border secure before any path to legal status can occur — which puts him to the right of McCain and Rubio.
All of this matters because it tells us how hard it is going to be to get conservatives to embrace anything approaching real reform. We don’t even know what Paul supports on citizenship right now — he appears to be trying to keep it vague. Either Paul supports a path to citizenship that the bipartisan “gang of eight” in the Senate backs — which would result in citizenship in 13 years — but subject to a Congressional vote on border security. Or he supports the framework preferred by GOP Rep. Raul Labrador that would result in legal status but not citizenship for most of the 11 million undocumented immigrants here.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/03/19/the-gop-dilemma-on-immigration/
This idiot sure knows how to rope people in and get a lot of good press for basically being a demagogue and hypocrite.
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