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By ADAM BEAM - Associated Press - Friday, November 21, 2014

HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. (AP) - With an eye toward 2016, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul sought to find a balance Friday between opposing President Barack Obamas executive orders on immigration and his efforts to grow the Republican partys base with minority groups.

Obama announced Thursday that he would be delaying the deportation of up to 5 million people who are in the country illegally. Most of those are people who have been in the country illegally for more than five years but have had children born in the United States, and thus are U.S. citizens.

Paul, like most Senate Republicans, has opposed Obamas orders. But Paul said Friday his opposition is about a president abusing his power, not about immigration reform.

If Obama decided to unilaterally lower taxes. Id be saying the same thing, Paul told reporters after a speech to law students at Northern Kentucky University. People understand what the issue is and the issue isnt really so much the subject as it is whether the president can create law.

Paul has made a point of trying to grow the Republican base. In a highly publicized speech to the National Urban League earlier this year, he advocated for restoring the voting rights of some convicted felons and eliminating the sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine. The ideas are part of a series of bills Paul has introduced designed to correct the racial imbalance in the countrys judicial system.

Opposing Obamas sweeping immigration reform could put Paul at odds with the nations growing Hispanic community, no matter how he phrases his positions. But Paul predicted once Republicans formally take control of the U.S. Senate in January, giving them control of both legislative bodies on Capitol Hill, an immigration reform bill would make it to Obamas desk.

As we pass immigration reform, people will finally look and say, Democrats promised us the moon and gave us nothing, Paul said.

Paul said a Republican-backed immigration reform bill would likely focus on expanding the visa program for people with advanced degrees who can come and work in the countrys growing technology industry.

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Presidential aspirant Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) started a #latenighttextsfromGruber meme Friday, which gives Paul and friends a new tool to poke at President Obama:

Paul got it started, but now he wants you to keep it going:

Meanwhile, as one of his final acts as chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has called Gruber to testify next month.

In a letter sent Thursday, Issa invites Gruber to be a witness at a hearing on Dec. 9 that will focus on transparency failures related to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

As a quick refresher, Gruber is the MIT professor who was a paid consultant on health-care reform as the White House wrote the law. He (in)famously said that the stupidity of American voters helped Congress pass Obamacare.

From the outset, the health law has been the poster child for this Administrations broken transparency promises, Issa said in a statement Friday. Americans were told if they liked their plans and doctors, they could keep them. They were told the individual mandate wasnt a tax. None of these were true. Jonathan Gruber, one of ObamaCares chief architects, publicly lauded the lack of transparency that was necessary to pass the law and credited the stupidity of the American voter that allowed the Administration to mislead the public.

As our colleague Chris Cillizza wrote this week, the Gruber comment not only alludes to a premeditated deception, but suggests that the Obama administration thinks conservative America is not smart.

And for that reason, Republicans are eager to keep Gruber in the news.

Colby Itkowitz is a national reporter for In The Loop.

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Sen. Rand Paul speaks Friday to the Northern Kentucky University chapter of the Federalist Society. The senator repeated themes of curbing federal authority and opposing the actions of President Barack Obama.(Photo: The Enquirer/Patrick Reddy)Buy Photo

U.S. senator and possible Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul took on issues ranging from government snooping into citizens' credit card bills to President Obama's executive order on immigration and even the possible legalization of marijuana in an appearance at Northern Kentucky University Friday.

Most of his speech and question and answer sessions with NKU law students was focused on the favorite issues of the former ophthalmologist from Bowling Green, Kentucky: civil liberties.

"We can't let our fear cause us to give up our rights," Paul said at the end of his 45-minute presentation to the Federalist Society at the Chase College of Law.

As for President Obama's move on immigration, Paul said that the incoming House and Senate (which will be both controlled by Republicans) need to put forth their own proposals while allowing a challenge to the rules play through the courts. He also told the crowd he was skeptical any lawsuits by other politicians such as the one filed Friday by U.S. Rep. and House Speaker John Boehner, R-West Chester, would gain any traction.

"What we need is a case were someone is harmed by this ... such as someone not getting hired in favor of someone who is undocumented," Paul said. "And you could even set something like that up. But that's the only way we're going to get anywhere in the courts."

He said, though, that President Obama set "a dangerous precedent" with the executive order and that it needs to be challenged.

"This isn't just about immigration; this is about the separation of powers," Paul said. "Power corrupts, and you never know who the next guy or woman is going to be and what they might do with that power. It's always been a battle,... and when we give up on that it's a big danger to the country."

After the session he told reporters he was planning to announce his 2016 Senate reelection campaign officially in the next two weeks. But Paul also said that he still had no resolution to a potential conflict were he to run for president. Kentucky state law prohibits a candidate to run for two statewide offices on the same ballot, and the Democratic-held state House has been unwilling to entertain changing the law.

"We haven't decided yet, so some of it will be based on that (on whether to run for president)," Paul said. "That will occur more in the spring, so no real conclusion yet."

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