Rand Paul: ‘You can’t have open borders and a welfare state’

Published May 8, 2015 11:49am ET



Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has his priority list ready to go as he runs for president, and border security and immigration reform are definitely on it.

“I think something has to be done. If you aren’t for doing any kind of immigration reform, you’re for another 10 (million) or 11 million people coming in unaccounted for,” the Republican said Thursday on KTAR, a Phoenix, Ariz., radio station.

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