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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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Atta boy Linda!
And a 20% tariff on any funds sent from USA to Mexico, or to another country that ends up in Mexico.
The government shutdown will end after a month or 2 .
Guessing the GOP will cave to media driven public opinion?
Not nearly enough for the wall, which seems to have turned into a fence. We need a WALL, not a fence.
John McCain dies, suddenly Linda butches up, big time.
I wish he’d have died a LONG time ago.
If not a Wall, I’d prefer interlocking lanes of machine gun fire. Of course that would be “insensitive.” A felony according to Democrats.
It DOES raise the question about what McLame had stashed on Linda, that kept him quiet all these years...
No deal?
Next week it is 6 billion and PDJT tweets out the percentages of the budget that it represents.
Week after that it is 7 billion, and PDJT can tweet out the phone numbers of SchmuckyNan and friends.
Those gov workers will be getting a little nervous...
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E-Verify needs to be part of any deal so the illegals can be rooted out of the jobs.
I want a wall. Not funding for a wall that may never come.
Linda is still a squish when it comes to immigration. Yes, she has tightened up on some other issues.
Send them ALL back where the came from.
NO effin DACA.
Send ALL the temporaries back too.
My starting position: What’s your counter offer?
End birthright citizenship for all except TWO US Citizen Parents.
Army Corp of Engineers and contractors to build the southern wall, begin immediate implementation of closing the northern border.
Eminent domain to take (and pay for) any land required.
Waive any and all enviro claims, as this is a military operation.
No Mans Land border region with bounty, kill anything that moves, let the bodies rot in the sun.
Close the border to all except US citizens for 30 days, then close it.
Round up ALL visa overstays, prison, asset forfeiture, then deport.
Flimsey Grahamnesty is in full re-election mode.
Pretending to be on the side of the citizens and the rule of law.
I really like Graham, after I hate him, and after he changes his mind and starts backing the American people and not the American weapons industry. It normally takes him a little while to make the transition. But I like him after he does it. Graham is not a born conservative, he gets there by trial and error.
I am a big fan of Little Linda Lupe Lu these days. Seriously. But even better here is what Bill Medley has to say about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgXxQrf99gosay.
Bill Medley - The Story of Little Latin Lupe Lu
So, shut down for the next two years? I feel safer already.
Just keep him away from CIA meetings.
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