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Graham: Illegal immigrants come to U.S. from "hellholes" [2013]
CBS News ^ | May 9, 2013, 1:47 PM | STEPHANIE CONDON

Posted on 01/12/2018 8:07:45 PM PST by conservative98

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., one of the "gang of eight" bipartisan senators who drafted the comprehensive immigration reform bill, attempted on Thursday to cast the immigration debate as an economic issue but ended up having to clarify that his remarks weren't meant as a slight to Mexico.

"I don't know how many fences we have on our Canadian border," Graham said in a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting. "Why are we OK up there and not OK to the south?"

It's "the tale of two borders," Graham continued. "Why is one a problem and the other is not? Because Canada is a place that people like to stay. They like Canada, we like Canada."

By contrast, he said, "The people coming across this other border live in hellholes. Our problem is we can't have everybody who lives in a hellhole coming to America. If you don't agree the difference [between the borders] is jobs, we just don't agree."

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TOPICS: Canada; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: aliens; canada; graham; hellholes; illegals; immigration; lindseygraham; mexico; southcarolina; trump
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To: MIchaelTArchangel
Aren’t H3llholes and Sh1tholes pretty much the same thing?

You are correct sir. There is NO difference between the two.

21 posted on 01/12/2018 8:43:26 PM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: conservative98

Because half the Canadians in LA are not on Welfare.


22 posted on 01/12/2018 9:12:03 PM PST by heights
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To: heights

So “Canada” was Miss Lindsey’s “Norway”.


23 posted on 01/12/2018 9:12:52 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

>> On the “hole” scale...

Agreed.


24 posted on 01/12/2018 9:45:20 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: conservative98
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. -- who has expressed concern both about the levels of legal and illegal immigration -- stepped in to clarify Graham's remarks. Sessions said of Mexico, "While there's poverty in some areas, it's not a hellhole. We are proud of the people of Mexico."


Even then Sessions was a little wuss. What a disaster he is.

25 posted on 01/12/2018 9:47:58 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: conservative98
Watch: Dick Durbin Advocated for Ending ‘Chain Migration’ in 2010, a Term He Now Says is Racist: “The DREAM Act would not allow what is known as chain migration,” Durbin said. “In fact, DREAM Act students would have very limited ability to sponsor their family members for legal status.”
26 posted on 01/12/2018 9:48:10 PM PST by Steven W.
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To: conservative98
Hellhole: (SanFran)

Shithole: (Haiti)

Class dismissed. ;)

27 posted on 01/12/2018 9:57:03 PM PST by Boomer (Leftism is a Cancer on Society; Pray for a Cure!)
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To: conservative98

Spinal Tap - Hellhole

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk9aThIovMA


28 posted on 01/12/2018 9:57:53 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

My guess is a h3llhole is made by a corrupt government that actually wants its people living in a h3llhole. While a sh3thole is made by an inept government that really did not want it’s people living in a sh3thole. So basically you can have sh3tholes with a government that had good intentions. However, all h3llholes have governments with bad intentions. Lindsey would know the difference.


29 posted on 01/12/2018 11:42:10 PM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: FreeReign

LOL!


30 posted on 01/13/2018 12:11:16 AM PST by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: conservative98

bump for later


31 posted on 01/13/2018 1:43:02 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: conservative98

Once again, Trump gets skewered for stating facts. We must not let the cat out of the bag, the deplorables will get excited.


32 posted on 01/13/2018 3:41:10 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Islam delenda est.)
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To: conservative98

For later.


33 posted on 01/13/2018 3:48:18 AM PST by kalee
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Works for me - Hell can’t be wiped up and sanitized....and doesn’t come from the butts of beautiful and innocent babies.....


34 posted on 01/13/2018 5:19:29 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives......;-))
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To: conservative98

Well, if anyone knows his shitholes, it’s Lindsay Graham.


35 posted on 01/13/2018 5:21:23 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: conservative98

Being honest for once...


36 posted on 01/13/2018 6:03:23 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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