Give them some legal status to work here, but absolutely no Medicaid, food stamps, welfare, free Obama phones etc. If their kids are in public schools they should pay tuition or let private groups give them scholarships. No path to citizenship for at least a decade and no voting for 20 years. Any illegal who commits a crime should be sent to jail and then immediately deported including all his family. Illegals who fail to register should face serious jail time and I am in favor of detention camps...make them basically humane but no place anyone would want to stay. Those deported but who sneak back should face big jail time and their families should be permanently barred from entering the US even as tourists.
RE: Give them some legal status to work here, but absolutely no Medicaid, food stamps, welfare, free Obama phones etc.
I think THAT is exactly what Rand Paul is trying to say.
I read somewhere that he referred to a program that worked in the past that was sabotaged by the Cesar Chavez supported unions called the Bracero Program.
we already have a legal work status, called a GREEN CARD.
Enforce our current laws.