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Graham pushing to declassify key ‘document’ on Steele dossier, announces new asylum law package

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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham exclusively told “Sunday Morning Futures” that he is working to declassify a sensitive “document” that definitively proves that authorities knew the Steele dossier — which the FBI used to justify the secret surveillance of a former Trump aide — lacked any substantial independent corroboration.

Graham also previewed legislation he will introduce on Wednesday to halt what he called the “perfect storm” of illegal immigration that now constitutes an “invasion” at the southern border, and predicted that “90 percent of illegal immigration” from Central America would soon come to an end under his plan.

“There’s a document that’s classified that I’m gonna try to get unclassified that takes the dossier — all the pages of it — and it has verification to one side,” Graham told anchor Maria Bartiromo. “There really is no verification, other than media reports that were generated by reporters that received the dossier.”

Graham added: “So, the bottom line is the dossier has never been independently confirmed. It was used to get a warrant. They knew the author of the dossier was on the Democrat Party payroll. He hated Trump; they got the warrant anyway. Most Americans should be very upset about that. I’m very upset about it. And we’re going to get to the bottom of it.”

On four occasions, the FBI told the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) court that it “did not believe” former British spy Christopher Steele was the direct source for a Yahoo News article implicating former Trump aide Carter Page in Russian collusion, documents released after a lawsuit showed last year.

The FISA application also copied and pasted directly from a Washington Post opinion piece that claimed the Trump campaign had “worked behind the scenes” to “gut” the GOP platform on Russia and Ukraine.

Separately, Graham also announced that he will introduce new legislation on Wednesday to address what he called the “broken” U.S. asylum laws contributing to the ongoing humanitarian crisis along the southern border. Among the changes Graham will seek is to prevent people from asylum at the border, as opposed to a consulate — a move that would raise constitutional issues if implemented.

Graham also said he wants to change the law to permit the U.S. to hold minor children for longer periods, to discourage adults from bringing children to the border as a legal “shield.” Currently, Graham said, adults seeking asylum with children are released into the U.S. and never heard from again. (The Trump administration last year altered its previous zero-tolerance immigration policy to preclude family separations at the border, amid a backlash.)

“We’re going to change the asylum law, that you have to apply in the country where you live, or in Mexico,” Graham said. “We’re going to stop Central American applications being made at the border, because we don’t have enough judges for hearing dates. We’re gonna go to 100 days, we can hold minor children for 100 days so we can actually process the entire family without letting them go. We’re gonna increase judges by 500; we got almost 900,000 backlog of asylum claims. We’re gonna wipe out the backlog [of asylum claims.]”

Graham added: “If you’re an unaccompanied minor, we’re going to send you back to Central America as if you lived in Mexico, which would be a change in our laws. This should stop 90 percent of the illegal immigration from Central America.”

A few from wandering arount tweeterland:

Graham pushing to declassify key 'document' on Steele dossier, announces new asylum law package | Fox News https://t.co/D7xTlEUprI— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) May 12, 2019

But even if Sen. Graham introduces this, and the Senate votes "yea", the House of Vermin won't. So then what?

Lindsey Graham to Introduce Immigration Legislation on Wednesday - Will End Central American Illegal Border Invasion (VIDEO) https://t.co/ob0kbST3BG via @gatewaypundit— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) May 12, 2019

AWESOME! - Graham’s plan will also force illegal aliens from Central America to apply for asylum in their home country and not after they storm the border. https://t.co/ob0kbST3BG— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) May 12, 2019

HUGE! Obama's State Department Knew of Steele Dossier in Summer 2016 and Passed on to FBI --Linking Obama Admin to Fake Dossier https://t.co/FanHcDA7ea via @gatewaypundit— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) May 12, 2019

Stupid Burr.

.@JasonMillerinDC: “This continual harassment of President Trump and his family has got to stop.”

“I think the backlash on Senator Burr is justified.” https://t.co/ppzBiiBYtf— Kyle Morris (@RealKyleMorris) May 12, 2019

The most disturbing part of @SenatorBurr's targeting of @DonaldjTrumpJr is the authoritarian nature of it.

Don isn’t a govt. employee. Has testified 20+ hours already & was cleared of any crimes by Mueller. This govt. harassment campaign of a private citizen is 100% un-American.— Andrew Surabian (@Surabees) May 11, 2019

The sharia practicing jihad promoting brother marrying mohammedan should not be in Congress at all!

Vice President Mike Pence on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN): Omar’s anti-Semitic statements “ought to be rejected by every American.”

“Omar has no place on the house foreign affairs committee and the Democratic leadership ought to remove her." pic.twitter.com/h8oL0rUcS3— Kyle Morris (@RealKyleMorris) May 10, 2019

Europe is not lost:

France: Le Pen’s National Rally Beating Macron’s Party in EU Election Polls https://t.co/qqzVdkbeet— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) April 26, 2019

A bit more than a minute of Farage on TV about the BCC ( I think, if you can understand Brits talking over each other):

The BBC are in denial. Looks like our entire establishment are in for a bigger surprise on May 23rd than they could ever imagine. pic.twitter.com/6W0NgqRGIC— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) May 12, 2019

Join The Brexit Party today and help us save democracy: https://t.co/O4pHVCtrrF pic.twitter.com/M3X7ieT1tE— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) May 11, 2019

Accurate or not, these are great numbers and our movement for democracy is gathering pace. pic.twitter.com/3acjwtEDeG— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) May 11, 2019