Kushner, Miller talk immigration at Senate GOP lunch

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner briefed the Senate GOP caucus Tuesday on the White House's plan to overhaul legal immigration as part of an effort to build support for the forthcoming proposal.

Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, was joined in the Senate GOP lunch by Vice President Pence and advisor Stephen Miller, whose rise within the White House has rankled some Republican senators.

GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), whose committee has jurisdiction on immigration proposals, characterized the White House plan as an effort to unite Republicans on border security and immigration, and give Trump a proposal that he can use to define what he supports.

"I don't think it's designed to get Democratic support as much as it is to unify the Republican Party around border security," he said.

Graham added that the White House was trying to unify Republicans around a "negotiating position" that would allow the party to say "this is what we want on border security. This is what we want on merit-based immigration and then we'll have to sit down and find common ground on the 11 million."

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), who chairs the Senate Appropriations' Homeland Security subcommittee, said the presentation represented the "broad outlines of a plan." She added that the White House proposal included "six buckets" that areas including employment status and humanitarian assistance.

The meeting with the full GOP caucus comes after roughly a dozen GOP senators went to the White House earlier this month to discuss legislation to transition the system for legal immigration to a "merit-based" system.

The White House proposal, which was spearheaded by Kushner, would not cut the total number of legal immigrants, roughly 1.1 million, accepted into the United States every year. Instead, senators say it would try to shift the federal government's preference for who gets green cards to those with specific job skills instead of family-based immigration.

But any immigration proposal faces uphill odds on Capitol Hill, where multiple pieces of legislation have failed in both the House and Senate.

The Senate rejected four immigration plans in 2018, including a White House-backed measure that provided a pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million immigrants brought to the country illegally as children, included $25 billion for border security, tougher interior enforcement and new limits on legal immigration.

A bill by Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.) that would have overhauled legal immigration but included cuts to the total number of immigrants awarded green cards also failed to make headway, stalling in the Senate Judiciary Committee despite Trump's endorsement of the legislation.

Asked how Democrats could be brought on board, Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), who was also present in the meeting at the White House, said the first step was getting Senate Republicans to support it but that he thought the caucus was receptive.

"There was a lot of encouragement in the room today for the work they've done," he said. "A lot of encouragement."


https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...nate-gop-lunch



Nothing will pass especially with:

Dems in the house should have their bill ready soon. Let's see how much common ground they can find.

I think there's way more to what this article covers. The Trump administration definitely wants more/faster deportations (maybe change asylum laws?) and do something about the southern border. The fact that Graham said "not designed to get Democratic support" means that it's probably just Miller's wishlist.

Daca for life

Lol
GOP Senators were, er, unimpressed w/ Jared, Hassett and Miller at immigration lunch today, per lawmakers, staff 1) Jared struggled w/ basic Qs 2) Miller kept "commandeering" podium when JK struggled, per source 3) Hassett predicted admin plan would create $600b in econ growth


At Senate Republican lunch,

@SenatorCollins

asked Kushner if the new WH immigration plan would include anything on DACA/dreamers... "I was not tasked with that," JK replied, per two ppl familiar.

It is time for the hype train to leave the station yet again.

I hope all of you bought your tickets to this train ride to hell. We will be blasting death metal, trump is the conductor, hairy ass-bald head miller will be the guy operating the brakes.

All aboard the DogJuiceMan express...

I think now it will finally pass! CIR it is!

These idiots have absolutely no fucking CLUE what they're doing. None. Absolutely. NONE. No experience, no logic, nothing.

But why are they even trying? Why even put themselves in those positions? They're all well off, they don't need to lift a finger, but they want to create policies that affect so many people? Mind boggling.

Welcome to america, this is how the ruling nobility in our nation operate. They actually have very little idea what they are doing, and we like it that way. A useless incompetent government is a free society.

Lmao we are fuck and UWD isn’t even to blame but these fucking clowns