Rand Paul
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And there's got to be one or two congressional districts that they have that they probably don't.
They shouldn't be allotted.
Well, this is going to shock you.
I actually think that most of the people that are here and working lawfully and can pass a background check, I would give them no welfare and I would give them no citizenship, no voting privileges, but you can work and we won't arrest you.
I think it's better just to say the tradeoff is this, that you came illegally.
Right now the law says you got to go back and you'll never get in basically.
So the compromise is you came in illegally.
You just don't get to be a citizen.
Now, the new ones, the 8 million that might have come in last year, some of them need to go back and particularly any of them committing crimes.
And I think people are very open and I think the Trump administration has sent a lot of criminals back.
See, the compromise I'm offering is different than anybody's ever talked about.
Everybody thinks the compromise has to include voting and citizenship.
If in Texas we gave amnesty and let, I don't know, a couple million people vote, immediately Texas becomes Democrat for the next 20 years.
So that's what it's all about.
We could change the law, but changing the law is difficult.
You know, I mean, you have to end up getting 60 votes, which means we need seven Democrats.