Rand Paul
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And it's part of the answer to immigration that makes it less of a burden on us is if we base our society on work, we put a wall around our welfare system, and we don't give it to people, refugees or immigrants, legal or illegal.
And you have to come for work.
And what that does is you're going to select out for people who work.
And that's why I try to say, and not many people on my side will see this, say this, I think some of the best Americans just got here, frankly.
They work in chicken houses.
They do a lot of the dirty jobs in our country are done by immigrants.
And some of them are here illegally.
I would have a work program.
I'd let them sign up for a work program, pass a background check.
The trade is you don't get citizenship at all.
I would just say you don't get citizenship.