Sen. Rand Paul urges GOP to get 'beyond deportation'

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD - MARCH 07: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord International Hotel and Conference Center March 7, 2014 in National Harbor, Maryland. The CPAC annual meeting brings together conservative politicians, pundits and their supporters for speeches, panels and classes. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Latino and Hispanic voters are crucial to many Republicans' races this fall and heading into the presidential election in 2016, and Paul is pushing the party to reach out to those voters.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is already a favorite of conservatives, but a recent statement may make him a little less popular.

Here's what he had to say yesterday at a symposium sponsored by the conservative Media Research Center and the American Principles Project in Washington, DC :

“The bottom line is that the Hispanic community … is not going to hear us until we get beyond that issue. They’re not going to care whether we go to the same church or have the same values or believe in the same kind of future of the country until we get beyond that ...We’ve got to get beyond deportation to get to the rest of the issues.”

Latino and Hispanic voters are crucial to many Republicans' races this fall and heading into the presidential election in 2016, and Paul is pushing the party to reach out to those voters. For more on how they might do this, we're joined by Republican strategist Luis Alvarado.