Posted on 12/11/2016 8:11:59 PM PST by Steelfish
DEC 9 2016 Is Trump Softening on Young Immigrants? Senators Hope So, Offer Bill by SUZANNE GAMBOA
WASHINGTON - Seizing on President-elect Donald Trump's "encouraging" comments in a Time interview, two U.S. senators are pushing for a stopgap protection from deportation for young immigrants who arrived or stayed in the country illegally as children.
Senate Minority Leader Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., partnered to introduce legislation Friday that would protect the young immigrants should Trump repeal the executive action before Congress takes up immigration reform. The protection would be temporary to keep them from being deported while Congress decides what it wants to do on immigration
Since this congressional session is winding down, with the House gone for the year and the Senate staying to wrangle over a spending bill, not much is likely to happen this year.
Durbin said the bill, dubbed the BRIDGE Act, will be re-introduced when Congress convenes next year. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., are the cosponsors on the bill so far.
Some 744,000 young immigrants are working and and are protected from deportation through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. President Barack Obama created the program in 2012 through executive action. But during the campaign Trump said it was one of the actions he'd repeal.
Many young immigrants with DACA have been fearful of what that would mean for them since they turned over their identity information to the government for the DACA protection.
But Durbin said Friday he's encouraged by Trump's recent comments to Time magazine, which named him Person of the Year, that "we are going to work something out" for DREAMers.
"We want to reach out to the incoming administration and urge them if they take any action on DACA try to...................................
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“Trump should strike a bargain with these Senatorial hand-wringers.”
You are one of those who simply do not have any common sense when it comes to understanding what your stupid statement will mean to your future generations. Furthermore, I notice you are from California so I can understand where you come from....a raging liberal or someone who simply does not have enough common sense to come out of the rain.
Do you realize that these people are breeding like rats and by leaving them here while feeding and housing them while on the welfare rolls will only make them spew forth even more Mexico loving/American hating spawn?
They have already been given chances and special exceptions by the Democrats and “bleeding hearts” of this country and now have become the “bait” that brings in all manner of pestilence from the south to enjoy the good life with free everything.
The LAW is the LAW and making special exceptions has been the cancer that has eaten away our rights as true American Citizens. SEND THEM BACK! Let them come back through the system we have in place to enter country once again. Make it mandatory that they speak and write ENGLISH as required by the original rules of our naturalization process calls forth.
NO EXCEPTIONS....PERIOD!
It is an insult to the citizens of this country to call Turban and the Poofter “Senators.”
Won't stop the concern trolls from getting the feeling that we would have been better off if Hillary had won - which she would have if they had been who Trump relied on to put him over the top...
Me too! Build the Wall!
Duh.. trump said we would have to work something out on the dreamers. He isn’t softening, he’s going to give the amnesty.. and of course suddenly every illegal will be a dreamer. Jeb Bush presidency. Stimulus, carrier CEO Christmas bonus, jobs created or saved, he might be worse than bush, but everyone knew dt record. Not a Constitutional bone in his body.
Somehow, I knew the stench of Lyndsey Graham would emanate from this globalist trash heap.
Strangle this legislation in the crib.
Chewie - you’re going about it the wrong way. Turn off the magnets and they self-deport.
No free college, no free health care, no free housing, no free food. Aggressively enforce E-Verify and aggressively prosecute those who employ illegals and soon enough, they head for the border going South.
Make it impossible for them to thrive in our culture outside of legal means and they beat feet back to whatever hell hole they came from.
Point taken. But no, I just mean they are trying to prevent him from being inaugurated at all, and he's wise to be a little softer and less threatening right now. I'm hoping that once he's sworn in, he'll give a slow smile, like the Grinch, and then really let loose.
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