GOP immigration allies disappear as crisis mounts

Swim19 · 07:32 PM

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/0...eam-act-477065

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Lindsey Graham introduced a bipartisan immigration bill 43 days ago. But if it came up on the Senate floor today, he wouldn’t support it.

“God, no,” the South Carolina Republican senator scoffed in an interview. “I’m not in support of legalizing one person until you’re in control of the border.”

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'Several GOP senators remain interested in helping the Dreamer population of undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children, but they’re increasingly reluctant to do so amid a wave of cross-border migration.

“Many of us support giving a path to citizenship” to that population of mostly younger immigrants, said Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), the only Republican to support Biden’s Health and Human Services nominee on Thursday. “But now the border is such a disaster that I don’t see how you can do just a bill to deal with Dreamers.”

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Putting aside that McCain and Flake are no longer in office and Rubio has shied away from the Senate’s past few years of fruitless negotiations, a new group of Republicans is theoretically in the mix for immigration talks. Sens. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) are all mentioned by Democrats as potential partners.

Romney, Tillis and Lankford all said this week that a clean DREAM Act is not currently an option.

Durbin, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, said that his available roster of potential partners is slim in today’s GOP. His committee is filled with hardliners like Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who are almost certain to lead the charge against anything he can come up with.

“When you sit down and draw up the list of potential Republicans that might come on board, it is challenging. It isn't like we have 20 and we got like the first 10. I wish,” Durbin said, lamenting that his DREAM Act is filibustered every time it comes up for a standalone vote. ”Trump really set the stage and said, ‘Immigration is going to be an issue for the future of the Republican Party. And we're against it.’”

Graham’s not alone in now rejecting immigration legislation he previously supported while insisting on beefing up border security. Tillis once offered a 15-year pathway to citizenship for young people who entered the country illegally but said he couldn’t support that Republican proposal at the moment.

“There’s no scenario I would support even what we called the SUCCEED Act, which was a path to citizenship for the [Dreamers], without it being paired with border security," Tillis said, referring to the conservative alternative to the DREAM Act that he had endorsed.

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Romney, Collins, Portman, Tillis and Rounds are part of the Senate’s so-called Group of 20, a bipartisan crew that’s given itself the daunting assignment of making the Senate work again, even as liberals eye gutting the filibuster over GOP opposition to their priorities — such as the DREAM Act. That group could be the venue for shaping an immigration deal, but its talks are only in the earliest stages and sprawl across an array of areas.

“I’m in the bipartisan group, but we haven’t touched it,” said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.). “There’s a problem that needs to be fixed, but I don’t think we’re anywhere near stepping up to it right now.”

Nothing really new here...no one expected a clean DREAM Act even before the 'border crisis'.

FLDreamerrr · 03-19-2021, 07:32 PM

I thought Joey was going to give us the golden deal with his connections in the senate

Smooth · 03-19-2021, 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Swim19

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/0...eam-act-477065

Nothing really new here...no one expected a clean DREAM Act even before the 'border crisis'.

Tell that to the UWD folks lol

Imagine · 03-19-2021, 08:10 PM

Dems will have to work with GOPs to give them something at least.
Every goddamn living soul in DC knows this is not going to pass as a standalone bill.

Got_Daca · 03-19-2021, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Swim19

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/0...eam-act-477065

Nothing really new here...no one expected a clean DREAM Act even before the 'border crisis'.

Yep

Nobody with right mind expected clean DA

Only UWD morons

hDreamer1988 · 03-19-2021, 09:16 PM

Dems plan on upping enforcement in some way. Durbin was never going to bring a clean DA to the senate floor. The GOP is waiting for the Dems to make the first offer with border security so they know a starting point and can up the ask. It's common, they are trying to make Dem entice them to the negotiating table with something big... like the Biden Wall.

dreamer12345 · 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by hDreamer1988

Dems plan on upping enforcement in some way. Durbin was never going to bring a clean DA to the senate floor. The GOP is waiting for the Dems to make the first offer with border security so they know a starting point and can up the ask. It's common, they are trying to make Dem entice them to the negotiating table with something big... like the Biden Wall.

wtf else they want? There's no due process, border's heavily militarized, for profit prisons keep making a killing. Anything that would work, namely more judges to expedite hearings or instituting e-verify nationally is shut down by cons. They only care about ensuring turning a buck on illegal immigration, be it via enforcement or exploiting cheap labor. That, or using immigration as a wedge and never giving dems a win on it.

MIdreamer · 09:56 PM

The border cannot be controlled right now unless you do something crazy. People from Central America will continue to come to escape poverty, death and to purse a better life. Same reason our parents make the journey.

Dream Act will stay a dream after all. We can't even find 1 easy Yes vote from GOP, let along 10. Even if you add border security, GOP will continue to ask for more, they will never vote for this bill.

You guys need to remember that this is not the Republican party anymore, it's Trump's party. No GOP senator is willing to go on record to vote for "Amesty". Doing so will mean risking their political career within the party. They will play both sides and say their support dreamers, but when the vote come, they will vote Nay for sure.

AleiaTheEnchanted · 03-19-2021, 10:20 PM

Should I say...here we go again....

ceaguila · 03-19-2021, 10:26 PM

Unless they convince Manchin and eliminate the filibuter.

If they cant convince him with voting rights act nothing will get done.

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