Posted on 02/11/2018 9:56:54 PM PST by Theoria
A group of GOP senators are preparing to introduce an immigration plan that lines up with President Trump's framework as the Senate barrels toward a heated debate over the issue.
Seven GOP senators, led by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), will file the bill, known as the Secure and Succeed Act, on Monday.
"Our proposal is supported by the President, who’s come a long way to reach a compromise. This is the only Senate proposal that has any chance of passing the House and being signed into law," Grassley said in a statement.
The legislation mirrors Trump's framework by offering a path to citizenship for roughly 1.8 million immigrants brought into the country as children illegally in exchange for $25 billion in border security.
It would also place new limits on family-based immigration, a key point for conservatives but considered a nonstarter for many Democrats.
And it would toughen interior enforcement, including implementing E-Verify, strengthening penalties for immigrants who re-enter the country illegally after being deported and cracking down on visa overstays.
In addition to Grassley, the proposal is backed by GOP Sens. John Cornyn (Texas), Thom Tillis (N.C.), David Perdue (Ga.), James Lankford (Okla.), Tom Cotton (Ark.) and Joni Ernst (Iowa).
The plan is one of several that senators are expected to put forward as the chamber searches for a fix for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that can get the 60 votes it needs to pass.
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Thus has it always been...
Mark Twain on Congress
Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.
- What Is Man?...the smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.
- Letter fragment, 1891Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain, a BiographyCongressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.
- Notebook #14, Nov. 1877 - July 1878All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography; also in Mark Twain in Eruption
They just can’t even say the word wall. These GOPers suck.
Thank you for passing on the article contents you read. I hadn’t seen that and I’ll be looking for that 3 year extension amendment now. Is the timing because they think that our president WON’T be reelected and it will be an easy sell in 2021?
My opinion - Trump has an excellent chance to be reelected in 2020, but only because he is Trump. No other Republican can win a national election.
I am an immigration hawk, and immigration has been my top issue since Bush and McCain tried to stuff Amnesty down our throats in 2005-2008.
In my opinion, Trump has always been an immigration dove, except for violent illegals. In 2015, I predicted he would postpone most major immigration decisions until he was reelected in 2020. Then, I predicted Trump would push a Bush-McCain Amnesty on us in 2021.
However, in my opinion, it looks like rank and file Republican opposition to Amnesty and Massive Legal Immigration has completely collapsed in 2018.
Consequently, I think we will get Amnesty in 2018, in exchange for a bunch of new tough-talk immigration laws that will never be enforced.
Depressing analysis. I’ll keep hoping for a while.
In my dream world, this immigration is passed, Trump’s people win big in 2018, and pass another law that tightens the immigration security that was left loose now. And in the meantime, Trump has already built the wall, so that they can’t stop the building. And he’s under budget!
I Goggled S.000, but it came up blank.
Democrats would be utterly stupid to reject anything like this. But I expect this is just the Republicans’ starting point for negotiations, and it will only get better for Democrats from here.
I fail to understand why the GOP and especially the president completely bypassed a permanent-green-card status and went straight to putting a “path to citzenship” on the table.
At this point, I can only hope Democrats stand firm, nothing gets done and deportations begin in earnest on March 7, which is what should have been happening all along until the border is PROVEN SECURE.
I realize some of us believe that’s been the plan all along—Trump’s plan, at least—but, the danger here is that some Democrats actually go along with it and Trump is forced to sign it. That assures victory for the uniparty establishment and the R party’s days are numbered.
What if the government provided a $100,000 payment in death benefits to every citizen who was killed by an illegal immigrant? The illegal immigrant had to be identified and the cause of death had to be demonstrated by a preponderance of the evidence. This would encourage people to come forward to collect the benefit and create a record of all deaths of citizens caused by illegal immigrants.
Speaking of “family breakdowns” I wish every time one of the bleeding heart liberals mentioned “breaking up families” someone would point out that NO ONE IS FORCING any ‘dreamer’ to stay here.
Those who value family over citizenship are free to return to their homeland with the rest of their illegal alien relatives.
That seems to be what is happening. Trump offers them a big compromise to the chagrin of the Right to show everyone the fact that the left doesn't want to do anything for immigrants. They just want credit for being all in for them and all in against anything with Trump's name on it.
Regarding immigrants, I wonder what God is doing. I can believe that God would bring in a million immigrants with all the good, bad and ugly for the sake of a few elect.
It would certainly help to have better publicized data on immigrant criminal behavior.
Even more important, there is no way that American Conservatives can politically survive the massive influx of foreign Socialist voters.
Tragically, it appears to me that a majority of rank and file Republican voters actually support the political insanity of mass immigration.
I have been trying to stop this madness for almost 15 years, and I am completely out of ideas.
Sorry, that is not going to happen.
A federal judge rejected the Trump Executive Order that claimed that Obama’s DACA Executive Order was unconstitutional.
Only a judge can decide what is, or what is not, constitutional.
Obama’s DACA is still in force, and it is still lawful, but with a few exceptions added by the judge.
Trump has two options...
He can file a lawsuit or an appeal which claims DACA is unconstitutional, which I think he has already done. But that process could take years to complete, and he could still lose.
Or, Trump could write a new Executive Order, based entirely on existing law, that orders the Secretary of Homeland Security to deport the DACA kids (now adults). No judge in America could challenge that.
Unfortunately, Trump wants Amnesty for the DACAs, so he will never write such an Executive Order.
Only 18 months ago, a remark of that sort would have earned you Double-Secret Probation for two weeks ...
I've actually been saying/predicting that since 2015.
I'm as surprised as you are that I did not get tossed.
On the other hand, immigration has been my “news beat” at Free Republic since the Bush-McCain Amnesty in 2005, so I always back up any controversial claims/predictions with direct quotes or documentation.
I also frequently add this sentence to my Comments, which is completely is true:
“I voted for Trump in 2016, and I will vote to reelect Trump in 2020, but only because he is the most Conservative candidate who has a chance to win.”
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