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Trump pushes Republicans to use 'nuclear option' on border
Associated Press ^ | Apr 2, 2018 7:01 PM EDT | Jill Colvin

Posted on 04/02/2018 7:07:17 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Trump administration officials said Monday they’re crafting a new legislative package aimed at closing immigration “loopholes,” hours after the president called on Republicans in Congress to immediately pass a border bill using the “Nuclear Option if necessary” to muscle it through.

“Border Patrol Agents (and ICE) are GREAT, but the weak Dem laws don’t allow them to do their job. Act now Congress, our country is being stolen!” President Donald Trump wrote in a series of sometimes-misleading tweets, fired off after returning from a holiday weekend spent in Florida with several immigration hardliners.

Trump also declared protections for so-called Dreamer immigrants “dead,” claimed the U.S. has “no effective border laws” and warned Mexico to halt the passage of “caravans” of illegal immigrants or risk retribution.

“They must stop the big drug and people flows, or I will stop their cash cow, NAFTA. NEED WALL!” he wrote. …

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: aliens; borderwall; buildthefence; cheaplaborexpress; daca; dreamact; dreamers; gopestablishment; illegals; keywordtrolls; mediawingofthednc; notpostedbefore; nuclearoption; partisanmediashills; pelosi; postedseveraltimes; presstitutes; rinos; schumer; trump; trumpillegals
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To: Olog-hai

The Repukes couldn’t find 30 votes for this. It’s Trump dictating this or bust


21 posted on 04/02/2018 7:41:36 PM PDT by wiseprince
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To: Olog-hai

Nuclear option. Sheeeeyit. Republicans don’t even have the balls to deploy the sparkler option.


22 posted on 04/02/2018 7:48:08 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Husker24

For them to be cowards would imply that they were cowed by someone or something, and that they believed the promises they told their voters.

It’s more like they are collaborators.


23 posted on 04/02/2018 7:48:41 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

The Constitution requires the government to stop invasions, that’s what the military is for.


24 posted on 04/02/2018 7:50:41 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SaveFerris
This one?



Just takes a little searching. Google images, then looking at all the 'related images'.
26 posted on 04/02/2018 8:05:53 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Olog-hai

The letter networks keep saying Trump ended DACA. Didn’t it expire and Trump didn’t renew it?


27 posted on 04/02/2018 8:09:44 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: Terry Mross

They love lying. It’s like when the president of Chick-Fil-A says he’s for traditional marriage and they turn around and say “he’s against gay marriage” when he said nothing about it.


28 posted on 04/02/2018 8:11:14 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: EdnaMode
Come on Republicans. Do something.

The Republicans just passed a $1.3 Trillion dollar Obamunist bill. What more do you want?

29 posted on 04/02/2018 8:22:51 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Olog-hai

Nukes are a bit overboard. I think cluster munitions would be adequate.


30 posted on 04/02/2018 9:00:57 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Olog-hai
Never gonna happen as long as we have that clown McTurtle as leader.

McConnell Signals He Will Not Change Senate Filibuster Rules After Trump Calls For "Nuclear Option"

McConnell all but rules out filibuster change


31 posted on 04/02/2018 9:03:37 PM PDT by Cheerio (#44, The unknown President)
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To: Olog-hai

McCain is the roadblock.


32 posted on 04/02/2018 9:11:56 PM PDT by gogeo (excellent!)
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To: Olog-hai

Good luck Trump. Republicans want open borders and amnesty just as much as Democrats


33 posted on 04/02/2018 9:18:38 PM PDT by Angels27
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To: Angels27

Basically , the RINO run GOP wants Trump “out”.
The GOP will never support Trump, in any way.
GOP will once again carry out another “PEANUTS”
Lucie pulls the Football away from Charlie Brown.
The Freaking Wall could have been finished and already paid for with Fed Confiscated drug bust “POT” re-sold through Legalized Pot States, Federally Standardized Pot Sales , would pay for the entire WALL .....


34 posted on 04/02/2018 9:35:58 PM PDT by huckleberry55
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To: Luircin
Inaction will give him the moral basis to take unilateral action. He is teeing up the ball.
35 posted on 04/02/2018 9:51:36 PM PDT by D Rider
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To: Terry Mross

It had no expiration date. Trump ended it in Aug. with a six month window for Congress to make it legal.
You see it was never legal.
We just did not have an opposition party to challenge it in court.


36 posted on 04/02/2018 10:04:12 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: gogeo

It way worse than that, Flake, Corker, Hatch, Heller, Alexander, Graham, McCain, Murkowsky, Hoeven and Rubio all voted for amnesty in 2013.
They still want it. More will vote for it if necessary.
Tillis, Burr, Lankford, Gardner, Cornyn, Cochran, Collins, Sasse, Kennedy, Shelby, Ernst, Blunt, McConnell, Wicker, Portman, Isakson, Johnson, Toomey, Rounds, Thune, Gaines, Barasso and Enzi are all Bush League Republicans hell bent on making America into North Mexico


37 posted on 04/02/2018 10:07:48 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

That’s pretty close! I’ll take it! And animated too!


38 posted on 04/02/2018 10:26:19 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Umm, no need to go to that stretch given the GOP’s McConnell is the one expressing the noble unfairness, we are better than that, etc., etc., etc., etc.

Use the goshdamn option already MCCONELL!!!!!!!!!


39 posted on 04/02/2018 11:50:43 PM PDT by cranked
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To: GingisK

How about a B-52 run armed with bars of soap?

That will scatter them like sheep running from a wolf pack.


40 posted on 04/03/2018 1:01:59 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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