Posted on 01/29/2021 12:52:54 AM PST by RandFan
Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) are introducing DREAM Act legislation next week, as senators look for a long elusive immigration deal.
Durbin told reporters on Thursday that it would be the starting base for broader negotiations within the Judiciary Committee and the Senate.
"If we can reach an agreement soon, very soon, we will have the base bill reintroduced and then that will be our starting point to build support as well as consider any additions, too," Durbin, the incoming chairman of the Judiciary Committee, told reporters.
Durbin, who also serves as Senate majority whip, said that the forthcoming bill "will resemble our similar efforts in the past."
Graham and Durbin have previously introduced Dream Act legislation that would provide permanent residency, and eventual citizenship, to immigrants brought into the country as children who meet education or work requirements.
Graham, in a phone interview with The Hill, confirmed that the bill will mirror their earlier legislative efforts, which he viewed as a starting point for broader discussions that would also need to include border security.
The Senate proposal would be substantially narrower than Biden's immigration proposal that would provide pathways to citizenship for 11 million immigrants, as well as expanding refugee protections and more border technology. The Biden administration has also reportedly signaled a willingness to break the proposal into pieces to try to make it easier to pass Congress.
But Biden’s proposal is largely considered a non-starter for congressional Republicans.
Durbin, asked about going broader on immigration, warned that some things "will be too much of a reach."
In addition to Graham, Durbin has said that he's reached out to roughly half a dozen Republicans, but pointed to the Dream Act and Temporary Protection Status as two of the highest priorities.
"My hope is ... that we can through the Judiciary Committee move on an expedited basis the highest priorities and I'm working to build a group that might be able to do that," Durbin said.
But Graham stressed that he views the bill with Durbin as a “starting point” for negotiations and a "good way ...to get more people involved."
Immigration has long been viewed as a white whale for Congress, with both sides interested in getting a deal but never able to reach an agreement. Trump, in early 2018, opened the door to accepting a pathway to citizenship for immigrants brought into the country as children in exchange for $25 billion for the border wall.
But any chance of an agreement quickly unraveled and the Senate rejected four immigration bills including a centrist bill, backed by Graham, that would have allowed about 1.8 million immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children to remain, providing them an eventual pathway to citizenship. It also included $25 billion in border security and would have prevented the parents of “Dreamers” from being sponsored for citizenship.
Graham on Thursday added that he wouldn’t support passing the forthcoming bill as a stand-alone, if they can’t get a larger deal, and doesn't think 10 Republicans would give it the support needed for it to overcome a filibuster.
“[It] is a good place to start the discussion and build out a compromise that will beneficial to the dreamer population and not incentivize a third wave of illegal immigration,” Graham said.
You know what would be crazy?
A bill that helps American citizens?
You know, like with jobs, further education and stuff.
Sorry, I know. That’s just a crazy idea.
What would realy be radical is a bill that doesnt pay anyone anything, but corrects fundamental flaws in the country, and maybe even cuts spending.
Durbin and Graham......what could go wrong?
Why does the headline read “Lindsey, Durbin...” and not “Lindsey, Dick...”?
The jokes write themselves....
And I am waiting for the rush of “lets save the republican party because they are overall good ppl” to flood the topic-——
If you stick your hand into a pit of snakes and they bite you but you do it again every day of your voting life = you cannot fix stupid.
And here is a Prime example of the UNiparty in action.
@SAM radical as it may seem, the Uniparty does not give a flying fig what We the People think, wanyt or need and they Never will.
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Imagine if any of these guys were interested in bringing good American Jobs.
Rather, they want to erase the middle class for a far easier to control and predict, dependent class.
Yep, the craziest idea I have ever heard. Imagine that, that it would be possible to actually help Americans, as opposed to non US Citizens. What a novel concept. I don’t imagine any evil, slime sucking, dirt bag politician, would ever put Americans first. Couldn’t possibly happen.
Lindsey has a new boyfriend and is just all aglow.
Of course they are:
Birds of a feather
Flock together
Turds of a smell
Can go to ****.
Grahamnesty didn’t get his name for no reason!
PS: Little Marco can’t be far behind!
Gee, what a surprise!
A Republican “reaching across the aisle” to work with one of his “colleagues and friends.”
Yo, you guys in the Senate. You don’t seem to remember what happed in with ALL of the Trump cabinet nominees, judges and others, do you? Have a gander at the all the votes for all the nominees throughout the Trump administration. You’ll be hard pressed to find very many Democrats that voted for any of them. Including Durbin.
But now, in the time of “Unity,” apparently we must all “just get along.”
Yeah, I don’t think so.
Graham working with the RATS for the good of the country. Now that scares the crap out of me. Someone will get stabbed in the back.
The Medical Examiner will have a difficult time doing Graham’s autopsy....He has multiple faces.
The Deplorables want a Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement bill, missing since 1986 ONE TIME amnesty. Since that amnesty was granted already, a second amnesty is off the table. What remains is the enforcement the Democrats have disallowed since then.
The List of Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement, missing since 1986 goes like this -
1) southern barrier;
2) require eVerify to hire;
3) end all chain migration;
4) birthright per Minor v. Happersett (plural parents);
5) end work visas;
6) 10-year moratorium on all new applications for citizenship (40 years to allow workplace automation effects on downsizing population);
7) Set up an illegal aliens’ victim restitution fund.
Enactment of these provisions will motivate illegal aliens to SELF-deport, and remove colonizadors from our welfare rolls.
The selling of American Congressional Legislation
THE issue that binds Red and Blue together in the UniParty is the issue of electoral fraud.
Its why certain precincts have voted Red-Blue for over 100 years. It s the means by which Congress and K St lobbyists can guarantee “product delivery” to interest that pay enough
Various “intelligence agencies” are the enforcement arm
Its mutually assured destruction if either side starts to betray the long-standing inter-generational process.
Whenever the issue starts to bubble too close to the surface
we all start getting entertained with “pizza parties” and “SRA” issues-but these are only incidental to the business at hand-the selling of votes and legislation of the most powerful legislative body in the world.
The contemporary information-digital communications has the ability to put an end to all if this -which is why the “information war” here at home
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