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GOP senators float fallback plan to protect Dreamers
The Hill ^ | 02/15/2018 | Alexander Bolton

Posted on 02/15/2018 3:30:13 PM PST by SpeedyInTexas

Three Republican senators floated a fallback plan Thursday to protect hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants facing deportation in exchange for $25 billion in border security.

Senate Republican Conference Chairman John Thune (S.D.), Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) floated a measure that would extend the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program indefinitely in exchange for $25 billion in border security funding.

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To: SpeedyInTexas; All

I say no. it is essentially amnesty. screw these guys. NONE of them are in southern border states.

How about this: $25 Billion for a wall or DACA kids and their fams start going home March 6?


21 posted on 02/15/2018 3:43:44 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Okeydoker

At 5 billion per year, $25 billion would fund 5 years of construction.


22 posted on 02/15/2018 3:43:58 PM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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To: SpeedyInTexas

I’m disappointed linda graham is not listed as a bill sponsor. This one is right up her alley.

Let us hope this bill goes nowhere.


23 posted on 02/15/2018 3:44:00 PM PST by upchuck (Keep a sharp lookout. The best is yet to come.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

These three amnesty traitors need to be primaried .

They are more worried are illegsls than the destruction by these illegals


24 posted on 02/15/2018 3:44:29 PM PST by ncalburt
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Anything

that allows

those who entered the USA illegally

to benefit from that

illegal act

is

AMNESTY

and will incentivize

millions more

to come for their amnesty.

STOP

giving prizes to invaders!


25 posted on 02/15/2018 3:44:37 PM PST by Paine in the Neck ( Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

The GOP, hard at work implementing the One Party State. Worthless cucks.


26 posted on 02/15/2018 3:45:56 PM PST by TTFlyer
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To: SpeedyInTexas
How do you propose the President get funding for the Wall?

The Republicans control the House, Senate, and executive branch. We voted them in to "find a way."

If they can't, we'll vote them out. Regardless, it's their job to find a way. Not mine.

And as for DACA amnesty, I'm against it UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES! Should these millions of illegal invaders become eligible to vote, it's over for this country.

27 posted on 02/15/2018 3:46:26 PM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas
The Prez. can only get significant funding after the midterms. In order to get more conservatives elected, he must stick to his campaign promises, and screw the centrism.

If the turkeys Ryan and Mitch could get their heads out of their intestines, they'd push for a second special counsel to neutralize the Russia crap, expose the Rat party's electoral corruption, and seek bigger majorities. Sadly, they're more scared of Jeff Bezos and Chuck Todd than of the consequences of amnesty.

28 posted on 02/15/2018 3:46:39 PM PST by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

We need conservative candidates who are not afraid to support Trump and be vocal about it on he campaign trail. They will win.


29 posted on 02/15/2018 3:47:33 PM PST by MomwithHope (Law and Order and that includes Natural.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

I say allocate $100 billion, actually build the wall, deploy the active duty military to the southern border, put a tax on remittances to Mexico and other countries, end chain migration, end the lottery system, punish employers who hire illegals, end welfare and food stamps for illegals, and pass a Constitutional amendment banning birthright citizenship.

Then we will decide which dreamers we want to keep on a case by case basis.


30 posted on 02/15/2018 3:49:31 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (No DACA Caca....Send the Nightmares home. "Americans are Dreamers, too." President Trump)
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To: SpeedyInTexas
Three Republican senators floated a fallback plan Thursday to protect hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants facing deportation

Why?

31 posted on 02/15/2018 3:51:02 PM PST by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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To: SandyInSeattle
As long as it’s limited to people who are already identified and in the program, I’m in.

Why?

32 posted on 02/15/2018 3:51:43 PM PST by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

And while we’re at it, arrest the mayors and city council members who have sanctuary cities. And governors like Jerry Brown, too.


33 posted on 02/15/2018 3:52:33 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (No DACA Caca....Send the Nightmares home. "Americans are Dreamers, too." President Trump)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

My vote for protecting Dreamers? Send them to their real homes, where they will be safe. My preferred option is deport all illegals. No exceptions.

I’d settle for build the wall, end chain migration, end visa lottery, end all immigration programs that are not based on merit, end merit-based immigration unless it both helps our country as a whole and helps working Americans. If we get all of that, I’m willing to trade a year-by-year legal residence for Dreamers, conditional on the wall being built and continued aggressive deportation of all other illegals.


34 posted on 02/15/2018 3:54:02 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: SpeedyInTexas
No. nothing fixes enforcing current law.

R's and D's are worthless. The fact that we are still dealing with this nonsense is obvious.

Do you want non citizens hanging around $hitting out Americans? No thanks. Just so they can work?

US children suffer everyday because of the wrong decisions of their parent{s}. There isn't a lobbying group for them. There isn't a politician running in front of a camera and having their back. But, we are supposed to support these daca and dreamers. nonsense.

35 posted on 02/15/2018 4:00:50 PM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

I think, like always, something will get passed and no one will like it. But something will get passed. The Founders set things up that way on purpose. All the shouting about it is meaningless. The deals that will be done to pass the bill will have nothing to do with the wishes of citizens. You’d think after a thousand times people would understand the setup.


36 posted on 02/15/2018 4:04:23 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (DACA is going to be a riot!)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Hello
The House is hitting the airports for a long weekend .

Good bye


37 posted on 02/15/2018 4:07:10 PM PST by ncalburt
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So, you guys are saying that people need protection from Mexico? Are implying that the country is some kind of... ummm... hole?


38 posted on 02/15/2018 4:07:45 PM PST by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: SpeedyInTexas; Okeydoker
OK, so bottom line: the proposed $25 Billion is to be doled out at $5 Billion per year. Of which some is for the wall and some is for generic "security" (drones, ICE agents?)

I smell a rat. The DHS last Spring estimated $22 Billion to build the wall, so only $5 Bil means at most 20-23% of it could be built per year. Taking into account the all-but-certain cost overruns on any major project, not to mention the portion allocated for non-wall use, this means it will take at least 5 to 6 years to build.

The Rats are hoping to flip either or both halves of Congress, and/or the White House, long, long before the wall is completed. What happens then to the remainder of this 6-year project?

Not completing the wall will simply mean the border-jumpers have fewer routes to take. That's like claiming your house is secure from burglars, because over 98% of the surface area of your house is inaccessible to passage, with the only minor exceptions being two outside doors without locks on them.

39 posted on 02/15/2018 4:10:47 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC ("Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt" - Pr. Herbert Hoover)
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To: SandyInSeattle
Steven Dennis‏Verified account @StevenTDennis · 1h1 hour ago

"New GOP offer from Thune, Portman, Moran: $25 billion for the Trump's wall in return for DACA extension for existing DACA eligibles only. Don't see any way this gets significant Democratic support."

Not sure what I think of this.

40 posted on 02/15/2018 4:13:31 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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