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Breitbart
Rand
Paul: Let's Compromise
on Amnesty
by Tony Lee
11 Jun 2014
A day after House Majority
Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) lost his primary after Dave Brat hammered
him on amnesty, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) embraced "immigration
reform" on a conference call with Michael Bloomberg's
pro-amnesty group and Grover Norquist.
Paul, a potential 2016
contender, reportedly said that "amnesty is a word that’s
trapped us," and, according to CNN, emphasized, "If you
want immigration reform, there has to be openness to compromise."
Earlier on Wednesday, talk radio host Rush Limbaugh declared that
when politicians in Washington say "immigration reform"
what they really mean is "amnesty."
“I say everywhere I go,
'I am for immigration reform,'” Paul said, according to the Wall
Street Journal.
This is not the first time
Paul has embraced amnesty. As Breitbart News reported, Paul spoke at
the University of Chicago earlier this year and told David Axelrod,
the director of the school's Institute for Politics, that he would
"expand the work visa program to include" all of the
country's illegal immigrants. Hispanic groups were still not
satisfied, calling Paul "offensive" even after he said he
favored allowing all of the country's illegal immigrants to remain in
the country.
Paul participated in a
monthly call with Bloomberg's Partnership for a New American Economy
and Norquist that seeks to push Congress to pass amnesty legislation
this year. Paul diminished the role that amnesty had in Brat's
victory, but Brat only made amnesty the focus of his campaign in the
final month. Brat's attacks even compelled Cantor to send deceptive
anti-amnesty mailers to voters in his district.
"The central policy
issue in this race has become Cantor’s absolute determination to
pass an amnesty bill. Cantor is the No. 1 cheerleader in Congress for
amnesty," Brat declared in an op-ed for the Richmond
Times-Dispatch during the last week of the primary. "This is not
the Republican way to fix our economy and labor markets."
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