Rand Paul

You sign up, you sponsor them, you support them.

The taxpayers shouldn't support them.

The other thing is we did a lot of it.

A lot of these people came on special visas.

They weren't part of the normal.

It's part of this refugee program, but they got special visas.

The smallies came because there's perpetual war in their country and famine.

I think part of the reform is we just shouldn't give out welfare.

This doesn't mean we shouldn't help people.

Right.

But if you're coming to this country and you want to experience the greatness of this country and someone sponsors you, they should take care of you.

But what happens is most of these charities that work on bringing refugees in, they have a big heart.

They're bringing them in.

But the first paperwork they fill out is signing up for welfare.

So I had this debate for years with McCain.

McCain said we should admit all these people who were interpreters in Afghanistan, all these people that are interpreters in Iraq.

And my response to him was this.

If they can speak English and they're pro-Western, they need to stay in their country and be the founding fathers of their country.

If the people who speak English and are pro-Western all leave, then all the crazy jihadists are the ones going to run the government.

So part of the reason the Taliban runs Afghanistan again is 80,000 of the best people probably came over here that speak English and have some kind of knowledge.