Posted on 12/30/2018 11:21:13 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., warned Sunday that a legislative fix to the partial government shutdown won't be passed by the Senate without border security funding.
"At the end of the day, there's a deal to be had," Graham said during an interview on CNN's "State of the Union." "But everybody is changing their position here and most Americans are pretty tired of it. So to my Democratic friends, there will never be a deal without wall funding and many Republicans are going to offer something as an incentive to vote for wall funding that you have supported in the past."
Graham predicted Sunday that GOP lawmakers would provide some degree of legal status to so-called "Dreamers" currently protected by the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program in exchange for border security measures and reforms to the Temporary Protected Status framework.
"Here is what I think might work: $5 billion for the wall/border security — Democrats have voted for more than that in the past — married up with the Bridge Act, which Sen. Durbin and I wrote, a three-year, one-time renewable work permit for the DACA population of about 700,000," he said. "We have about 400,000 TPS people who came here from natural disasters and war-torn countries decades ago, their visas are running out. So basically $5 billion for the wall plus the Bridge Act, TPS, and some legal changes to do away with some of these magnets to illegal immigration might save the day in the Senate."
The South Carolina Republican, however, didn't directly respond to repeated questions about why the deal he outlined would work now when similar efforts had failed in the past.
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Trump should have those tall spiked posts available for purchase. Buy a post and get your name engraved on it. They’d sell like hotcakes. I’d buy some for Nancy, Alexandria, Elizabeth, Maxine, etc.
E-Verify needs to be part of any deal so the illegals can be rooted out of the jobs.
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E-verify is swell but it doesn’t work like some think it does.
An applicant shows his SS card and the company runs the number, comes back as legitimate. The problem is that millions of identities are stolen and many people ( beaners) use the same number.
The employer did his due diligence and the fraud continues.
What is the big deal about deals?
Liar. Mexico n central America was rewarded with 10 billion dollars. But we cant fund the wall. This is just the usual politics. Some of us remember 1986 amnesty. Not to the h for daca until every inch of the border is complete.
Wow!! Don’t you wish that could really happen?
I just watched LG’s post-lunch presser. Trump has the Dems boxed into a corner. The public wants the border secure. The Dems are on record for voting for significant amounts of border fencing to close down the border. And they know “Build the Wall” was the rallying cry of scores of thousands at Trump’s rallies before and since the election. If the wall is built, Trump wins reelection handily.
Thanks E. Pluribus Unum. With Linda, it depends on the venue.
Take the Five Billion and then the 14 BILLION from El Chappo’s money that was confiscated and can legally go into an anti-drug program without going into the General Fund. Confiscated Drug Assets are exempt from the General Fund as long as it is used to fight drugs by buying vehicles weapons salaries and best of all another brick in the wall.......
Good idea.
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