Posted on 01/16/2018 12:55:00 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said Tuesday that he expects President Trump to sign legislation granting a pathway to citizenship for almost 11 million illegal immigrants.
Addressing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Tuesday, Graham said his plan is for Congress to address immigration in two legislative packages, the second of which would include a massive amnesty deal.
Phase one would grant a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants brought here as children, who were previously covered under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and would include moderate increases in border security. Phase two of the immigration plan, Graham indicated, would force Trump to sign legislation granting a pathway to full citizenship for almost 11 million more illegal immigrants in exchange for further border security and moving towards a merit-based immigration system.
Graham said Tuesday that he expects Trump to make significant concessions to Democrats in both phase one and phase two of the immigration package.
“So here’s what I would suggest to you. In phase one, to expect my friends on the other side to go comprehensive for us and DACA for them, it’s not going to happen. I’m telling my friends on the other side, DACA and nothing else is not going to happen. The sweet spot is DACA plus more than the DACA kids and making down payments on border security, moving slowly but surely toward a merit-based immigration system, to be followed by phase two,” Graham said.
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And how exactly will this pass the House?
I DONT THINK SO LINDA.
Linda is thinking CNN loves me,again!
And all the crimagrants love me,too!
Sure thing dopey!
“Linda is so helplessly lost in space...”
I agree. What an idiot.
Sure thing dopey!
Linda - what an idiot. My confidence in Trump is at an all time high. The only thing that is going to cave on this issue is the dirt on the heads of libs and neo cons as they sputter and wail.
This is what Graham is hoping will happen:
“DACA plus more than the DACA kids and making down payments on border security, moving slowly but surely toward a merit-based immigration system, to be followed by full citizenship for almost 11 million more illegal immigrants in exchange for further border security and moving towards a merit-based immigration system.”
Something like this would be absolutely intolerable and would virtually guarantee civil war.
We’ve seen this tactic over and over, the loons attempting to drive a wedge between Trump and his base. It hasn’t worked so far, but they just keep repeating the tactic over and over.
...As Rush said, Lindsey misread the meeting the other day...
Linda has misread the mood and the determination of those who elected the President.
Lindsey loves a big package.
Can someone explain who votes for this guy in primaries? Are they people who like him because of his interventionist foreign policy? What is it?
Democrats crossing over in the primary.
Baloney!
We can criticize the awful Lindsey Graham all we want, but Trump’s statements during that awful televised meeting support him.
Trump did signal his willingness to betray our homeland with massive illegal alien amnesties.
Today, Trump is all over the map on this issue. A massive amnesty treason is not out of the question. Sure it will be coupled with some token wall building stretched over a decade and of zero consequence once the legal gates are thrown open.
Linda has too many Twitter pix on his mind to be thinking strait. Although asking Linda to think “strait” is beyond his abilities.
So when the RINO/Democrat criminal complex presented a shitty bill to him, what did he do?
When did the D of C legalize LSD use?
This guy needs to be locked up with the D of C ex-mayor Berry.
Is not a person in his position duty bound to at some point accept reality? How about he insist on enforcing federal law.
Geepers this senator is off the rails now.
Like I said, all over the map. That rejection was good. The fact that he’s even negotiating amnesty, however, is a bad sign.
I am very afraid we’re going to get a massive amnesty now, coupled with a lot of eye-wash / Bubba-bait about “barrier and technology improvements” over the coming years.
There is zero reason for an amnesty now. Build a wall now. Stop importing low-IQ third world democrat voters through chain migration now. Then in the future, if there’s really a good reason for amnesty (and there won’t be) it can be addressed at that time.
Amnesty should have no place in the agenda of a Trump administration that came to power through promises to do the opposite of Amnesty.
Linda just want to see Trump’s “big package”
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