"I'll hold the fence funding here while you sign another amnesty, then you come running up and kick it..."
"Do you promise, this time?"
Posted on 12/30/2018 1:58:15 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Sunday that President Trump is "open-minded" but non-committal about a potential deal that would include border security funding and offer protections for young immigrants that he has floated to resolve the ongoing government shutdown.
Graham said Trump remained adamant that any agreement must include money for the president's desired wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Graham told reporters outside the White House that he spoke with Trump about a possible arrangement that would include $5 billion for border security, renewable work permits for beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and visas for thousands of individuals on temporary permits.
Graham had a private lunch with the president hours after he suggested on a Sunday show that such a deal could break the impasse that has led to a partial government shutdown.
Democrats earlier this year expressed willingness to provide wall funding in exchange for protections for those who benefit from DACA, known as Dreamers, but the deal collapsed after Trump said he would no longer accept the deal.
The Trump administration rescinded DACA last year.
Republicans and Democrats have clashed in recent weeks over Trump's demand for $5 billion in funding for his proposed border wall. The impasse led to a partial government shutdown that has lasted nine days and counting.
Graham said Sunday that Democrats have in the past voted in favor of implementing physical barriers along the border, and suggested Trump's wall proposal should be no different.
"The wall has become a metaphor for border security, and what we’re talking about is a physical barrier where it makes sense," Graham said. "In the past, every Democrat has voted for these physical barriers. It can’t be just about because Trump wants it, we no longer agree with it. There’s nothing immoral about a physical barrier along the border in places that make sense."
Graham? I don’t believe much of anything he says.
That would be a disaster. We have 50 million illegal alien, criminal foreign nationals in this country in need of deportation(and their democrat voting anchor baby demon spawn). We don’t need to add more.
NEVER EVER EVER EVER allow any illegal alien who broke into our great nation... vote! NEVER EVER.
Agree? Don’t reward illegals OR the dems.
Wall first. Completed.
And that puts the blame on the Democrats. If there’s a deal, there will be some improvements. Put some effort and contribution$ into giving the President a better Congress in 2020 for a better deal.
If efforts for everyone to contribute whatever possible amounts to the 2020 elections were as great as the efforts to contribute to the wall, everyone would pay for the wall through the resulting revenues and appropriations with larger Republican majorities in both houses of Congress.
Nothing new here, he already signaled this a long time go.
A second ‘one-time-only’ amnesty.
I see the Senate GOPe is already surrendering and self negotiating. It must be incredible to be blessed with these guys sitting across the table when negotiating.
Think about buying a house from one of these guys. You just sit there quietly and wait until they give you their house for free.
Negotiate from strength! Okay, 670,000 illegal alien kids given temporary visas so they can continue their education. NO WORK PERMITS! And illegal alien families must leave. In trade, FULL funding of the wall, implement e-Verify, end chain migration, and legislated automatic deportation of anyone entering or staying in the US illegally. The latter would hopefully skip the backlog and courts—deport everyone, turn everyone back at the border.
To heck with DACA. That’s a scam on the American people. The dummocraps would just keep demanding more and more DACA parasites and keep reducing the amount for the wall.
The GOP is all hat.
There is nothing they won't pretend to fight only to surrender to their Democrat overlords.
Maybe Karl Rove told them this will help them win the Hispanic vote.
Those kids aren’t going anywhere anyway. It’s not like if Trump loses the wall they are going back to Mexico.
"I'll hold the fence funding here while you sign another amnesty, then you come running up and kick it..."
"Do you promise, this time?"
He’s about as reliable a source as is CNN.
Here’s a deal, every American tax dollar sent to Western Hemisphere 3rd world countries is matched dollar-for-dollar with funds for a U.S. border wall.
It might not be a bad idea. Can you imagine Nancy’s own constituents shouting “build the wall! BUILD THE WALL!”?And we need to face the facts; the majority of illegals aren’t going anywhere. I was so angry with the republicans 10 years ago when boarder wall/security was a hot topic. I would have traded some immigration concessions if the wall would have been built and laws tightened up. That could have saved us 10 years’ worth of illegals. And Obama came along and gave us the DACA amnesty anyway. We got nothing plus the extra illegals.
Bush League Republicans want any amnesty they can get.
The funny thing is that back in Feb 2018, a bipartisan group of Senators had a package with $25B for border security and a plan to help the Dreamers. The White House rejected it. Now the offer is $5B and a plan to help the Dreamers.
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