{"id":6955,"date":"2014-06-13T17:07:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T21:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6955"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:56:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:56:07","slug":"rand-paul-trapped-by-his-own-willful-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/06\/13\/rand-paul-trapped-by-his-own-willful-ignorance\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul \u201cTrapped\u201d by His Own Willful Ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rand Paul<\/a>, who the day after Eric Cantor\u2019s stunning defeat to anti-amnesty candidate Dave Brat, appeared with open-borders acolyte Grover Norquist<\/a> to promote both amnesty and major increases in legal immigration, said:<\/p>\n

[Republicans have] been somewhat trapped by rhetoric and words and\u00a0amnesty is a word that\u2019s trapped us\u2026.We\u2019re trapped in a word that\u00a0means different things to different people. \u2026 I really think that some\u00a0of it is we\u2019re trapped in this rhetoric and we have to get beyond that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Paul is right in that amnesty means one thing to those in D.C. who are trying to disguise their intentions to enact a blanket amnesty for illegal aliens and something else to the rest of the literate public. The <\/span>illegal aliens<\/a> who are surging over the southern U.S. border certainly understand the unambiguous meaning of the term.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAmnesty has \u201ctrapped\u201d Paul and his colleagues because they fail to grasp the meaning of other words, such as structural unemployment, corporate welfare, and vanishing middle class. \u201cRule of law\u201d also is a term that seems to give them trouble. <\/span>So says Paul<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

To some \u201crule of law\u201d conservatives, [amnesty]is a swear word. To other conservatives,\u00a0<\/span>putting millions of illegal immigrants on the road to legal status and\u00a0eventually to citizenship is realistic politically and fair for people who flee warlords,\u00a0drug lords and dysfunctional economies abroad to find work in the U.S.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If Rand Paul thinks it\u2019s a good idea to pass an amnesty to legalize the status of 12 million or so illegal aliens, why won\u2019t he make his case on its merits instead of indulging in obfuscation and subterfuge?<\/span><\/p>\n

Paul Ryan<\/a>, among others (including soon-to-be former<\/span> <\/i>House Majority leader Eric Cantor), has tried this shtick before. No matter how Paul, Ryan, et. al., try to redefine the meaning of amnesty, they can\u2019t convince the American people that rewarding illegal aliens by passing legislation that allows them to remain in the United States is anything other than amnesty. You see, Americans, unlike Rand Paul apparently, understand that if they want to learn what a word means they can open a <\/span>dictionary<\/a> and find out.<\/span>