Posted on 08/24/2014 11:14:40 PM PDT by Plummz
Here performing eye surgeries on blind Guatemalans for several days in the rural town of Salama, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) strongly criticized President Obama's immigration policy in a closed-door Wednesday meeting with Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina.
“I told him, frankly, that I didn’t think the problem was in Guatemala City but that the problem was in the White House in our country, and that the mess we’ve got at the border is frankly because of the White House’s policies,” Paul said in an interview.
The meeting, he explained, was primarily about the humanitarian mission for which Paul—an ophthalmologist before running for the U.S. Senate in 2010—volunteered his medical services.
“We met for 45 minutes or so, mostly about the humanitarian mission—we talked about the surgeries and the people we met on the trip up there and my son doing a water project for the local school,” Paul told Breitbart News.
But when the conversation with President Molina turned to immigration, Paul let it fly at President Obama over his planned executive amnesty. The tens of thousands of Central Americans streaming across the southern U.S. border has been caused by Obama providing “magnets” for them to come, he said.
“It comes from the president basically offering unilaterally without congressional approval beacons or magnets without securing the border,” Paul said. “He seems to be doing this again because he doesn’t have what it takes to get Congress to pass legislation. So it all starts, as many conservatives say, you can’t have immigration reform without first having a secure border. But I think what’s happened at the border is all squarely at the president’s lap. "
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Wasn’t he pimping for amnesty himself not too long ago, or am I confused?
Loose Cannon.
The first line is the takeaway for me... I wonder what then senator Øbama used to do with his summer recess. Go home to Kenya and community organize?
What a wacko. At least the Paul has been flushed...
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