Posted on 12/30/2018 9:30:07 AM PST by jazusamo
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina on Sunday said a deal that combines $5 billion for President Trumps border wall with an extension of legal status for Dreamers and people fleeing conflict or natural disasters back home could save the day in the Senate and reopen the government.
We need to start talking again, the Republican told CNNs State of the Union. To my Democratic friends: There will never be a deal without wall funding.
He said in return, immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children should be eligible for legal status and authorization to work for three years under a bill hes put forward with Sen. Richard Durbin, Illinois Democrat.
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NO non citizen should get to use OUR tax dollars for anything. Bill the country they came from
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A big YUP to that
One of the few departments affected by the shutdown is the Department of Agriculture, and that departments biggest expense is Food Stamps. As this partial shutdown continues, all those beloved illegals will cease receiving those beloved Food Stamps.
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What?
I talked to food stamp person a few weeks ago and asked if illegals get food stamps
She said no
I didn’t believe her
The main language in the food stamp office is Spanish
HUH?? People voted for OTHER people?
Wouldn’t call it a poison pill - trying to find a way to get Congress to actually pass laws to handle it instead of leaving the truly poisonous mish-mash we have now.
I don’t believe that Trump admin will hold out that long.
And I don’t think Graham was floating the DACA swap on his own. Unfortunately.
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