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   June 12th, 2014 @ 7:01 am

   Rand Paul: Why I’m voting no on immigration reform (2013)
   Submitted by Kathleen Gee on Thu, 06/12/2014 – 02:06. Permalink
   For those of you with short memories…He’s saying exactly the same things now as he said a year ago. Why people have their panties in a twist about it today, I do not know.

   By SEN. RAND PAUL | 6/25/13

   I will be voting no on the Senate’s Gang of Eight immigration bill for one simple reason: because the legislation does not secure the border first.

   The American people desperately need immigration reform. Unfortunately, this legislation does not do the job.

   Of paramount concern is what to do with the 12 million people currently residing in the United States who are in legal limbo. No one is seriously contemplating they leave, but conservatives believe that normalizing their status should only follow serious efforts to secure the U.S.-Mexican border. And I’m sorry to say that the Gang of Eight’s proposal is just not serious.

   Any immigration reform must expand legal immigration and the work visa program so that we don’t find another 12 million undocumented workers here a decade from now. The Gang of Eight bill actually decreases the number of visas for agricultural workers. Haven’t we seen this movie before? If work visas are less than what the market demands, the workers will come illegally — and we’re right back where we started.

   Earlier this month, I introduced an amendment to the current legislation. Known as the “Trust But Verify Act,” it would make immigration reform contingent upon Congress writing a strong border security plan, congressional votes on border security every year for five years, completion of a double-layered border fence, two new national security visa screening programs, and protection against any Obama administration attempts to force American citizens to carry around a biometric national identification card. My amendment ensured that Congress, and not the usual unaccountable government agencies, would verify that the border was secure.

   My amendment was voted down 37-61 using a procedural vote, with seven Republicans joining Democrats to vote down the strongest border security amendment offered on the bill.

   Read the rest: https://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/why-im-voting-no-on-im…

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