Posted on 01/28/2018 2:53:59 PM PST by Kaslin
Today, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) refuted several White House talking points, saying that increased border security measures were unrealistic and possibly overpriced. Graham told Martha Raddatz while on ABC’s “This Week” that the estimated $25 billion for the southern border wall was too costly and that a “1,900-mile wall” was simply not needed.
“We’re not going to build a 1,900-mile wall,” Graham said. ” The $25 billion can be spent wisely because the Gang of Eight bill spent $42 billion to secure the border. So we’re not gonna build a wall in places where it shouldn’t go.”
On President Trump’s border wall request, Sen @LindseyGrahamSC tells @MarthaRaddatz “You don’t need $25 billion for a wall…we’re not going to build a 1,900 mile wall.” #ThisWeek pic.twitter.com/goWXGL47Tw— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) January 28, 2018
President Donald J. Trump has long promised a “big, beautiful wall" across the Mexican-American border to deter illegal immigration. Sen. Graham has often times disagreed with President Trump on his proposed immigration policies. Sen. Graham has also called out key senior presidential advisers, such as Stephen Miller, for thwarting immigration discussions. Miller has long been seen as the driving force behind President Trump’s strong stance on immigration. This of course has received praise from the president's supporters and criticism from his detractors.
Just last week, Graham lambasted Miller for standing in the way of softer immigration policy. As Leah reported, White House aides have also been quick to criticize Sen. Graham as well.
“As long as Sen. Graham chooses to support legislation that sides with people in this country illegally and unlawfully instead of our own American citizens, we're going nowhere. He’s been an outlier for years,” White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said in a statement Sunday night.
The South Carolina Republican warned earlier in the day that with Miller in charge of immigration, negotiations are “going nowhere.”
"Every time we have a proposal it is only yanked back by staff members. As long as Stephen Miller is in charge of negotiating immigration, we're going nowhere," he told reporters, adding that "the White House staff, I think, is making it very difficult."
Graham, Democrats, and other Republicans are currently in negotiations to discuss the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals executive order program that granted protection from deportation for at least 800,000 illegal immigrants who arrived in America as children. Last September, Trump gave Congress a six month ultimatum to create a legislative plan to properly address these "DREAMers" as they are known in some circles. It has been thought by some legal experts that President Obama's initial executive order was unconstitutional.
So China managed a 13,000 mile wall 2,300 years ago and Senator Dumbass doesn’t feel we’re going to build a much inferior 1,900 mile one now?
The next murder of a real US citizen by an alien should result in a lynching of Gramnasty.
The timing of any amnesty for the, “dreamers” should be contingent on the final mile of wall being completed.
I’ve done the same for years! McConnell and the lot. I’ll never give a penny except to individual candidates.
It’s funny China could build a massive wall a couple thousand years ago through every type of terrain. And with all of our technology we act like, hmmmm! Gotta run..
Sit down and shut up you little poofter. You don’t speak for anyone but your little gay self.
We know that...we’ve always known that....what’s his point?
No, Graham, you are not going to build the wall. Patriots will. You’re not part of that group.
Not a frog, a gerbil... in his “wattever”
So many freepers enjoy making fun of Sen. Graham. It’s such cheap shots that turn me off in wanting to know their opinions.
No wall? Then put snipers on the border.
They will ought him if he doesnt keep it up.Been that way since back during the clinton impeachment era.
$25M is too much - $42M is the right number.
Only in Washington DC.
How about a thousand mile wall, and hundreds of Guillotines for Traitors like Graham?
It is true we do not need a wall along the entire border. The physical terrain is a barrier in of its self. The few that get through those areas can be easily caught.
The problem with “Linda Amnesty Graham” is he does not want a wall where it is necessary. I wish Linda would just get over it and join the Democrat Party so the good people of South Carolina would vote him out of office.
Linda acts like she won, instead of getting less than 1% of the primary votes. She needs to be bitch-slapped.
I’m thinking we need to send our STATE GOP parties the same note you send....maybe THEN the RNC would get pressured???
Linda Gramnesty doth sound like a moroness.
Is this a good time to tell Linda that (s)he can go to Hell? Asking for a friend ..
LOVE! IT!
Then leave.
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