Posted on 01/28/2018 2:53:59 PM PST by Kaslin
Today, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) refuted several White House talking points, saying that increased border security measures were unrealistic and possibly overpriced. Graham told Martha Raddatz while on ABC’s “This Week” that the estimated $25 billion for the southern border wall was too costly and that a “1,900-mile wall” was simply not needed.
“We’re not going to build a 1,900-mile wall,” Graham said. ” The $25 billion can be spent wisely because the Gang of Eight bill spent $42 billion to secure the border. So we’re not gonna build a wall in places where it shouldn’t go.”
On President Trump’s border wall request, Sen @LindseyGrahamSC tells @MarthaRaddatz “You don’t need $25 billion for a wall…we’re not going to build a 1,900 mile wall.” #ThisWeek pic.twitter.com/goWXGL47Tw— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) January 28, 2018
President Donald J. Trump has long promised a “big, beautiful wall" across the Mexican-American border to deter illegal immigration. Sen. Graham has often times disagreed with President Trump on his proposed immigration policies. Sen. Graham has also called out key senior presidential advisers, such as Stephen Miller, for thwarting immigration discussions. Miller has long been seen as the driving force behind President Trump’s strong stance on immigration. This of course has received praise from the president's supporters and criticism from his detractors.
Just last week, Graham lambasted Miller for standing in the way of softer immigration policy. As Leah reported, White House aides have also been quick to criticize Sen. Graham as well.
“As long as Sen. Graham chooses to support legislation that sides with people in this country illegally and unlawfully instead of our own American citizens, we're going nowhere. He’s been an outlier for years,” White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said in a statement Sunday night.
The South Carolina Republican warned earlier in the day that with Miller in charge of immigration, negotiations are “going nowhere.”
"Every time we have a proposal it is only yanked back by staff members. As long as Stephen Miller is in charge of negotiating immigration, we're going nowhere," he told reporters, adding that "the White House staff, I think, is making it very difficult."
Graham, Democrats, and other Republicans are currently in negotiations to discuss the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals executive order program that granted protection from deportation for at least 800,000 illegal immigrants who arrived in America as children. Last September, Trump gave Congress a six month ultimatum to create a legislative plan to properly address these "DREAMers" as they are known in some circles. It has been thought by some legal experts that President Obama's initial executive order was unconstitutional.
Does (s)he understand that (s)he just got thrown off the panel? Does (s)he realize that (s)he was SOUNDLY defeated with close to 0% of the vote in the primaries? ‘parently not.
You too, huh? It's getting really hard for me to do that anymore. The buffoonery from the Left AND the RINOs is just maddening!
Wouldn't want to start any of those viral rumor thingys!
I bet you would find he gets campaign contributions and possibly more cash under the table from large companies that hire illegals. I think the cheap labor express pays quite well. Politicians like Graham on both sides don’t mind selling us out to feather their nest.
I catch hell here every time I say but I’ll say it again. There will never be a wall along the Texas border. From the Rio Grande west is where we’ll see the wall.
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Well, newbie Snowflake, as the man said: "If you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen!"
I don’t think Miss Lindsey wants even a 50 yard fence.
But he just makes it so easy.
Of course you aren’t, Lindsey. You haven’t done an honest day’s work in your life. Building a wall would kill your sorry ass.
The non-Rio Grande part of the border is only 620 miles long. What’s the excuse for not walling off that segment?
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Graham wants the illegals!
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He’s got a frog between his ears.
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His ‘boss’ is old scrotum face Soros.
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There must be other forums where you can post Mr. Noobson!
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I think that a puddy hat would be more appropriate for him.
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Well, then we can put the wall between Texas and Oklahoma!
What’s wrong with going into Mexico with the wall...As far as necessary to make it contiguous?
Mexico is, after all, at war with America(10’s of millions of invaders).
They need to suffer the consequences of their actions.
I looked all over for the one with long hair, Miss Linda, but the Bing search no longer brought it up.
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