Republicans quietly craft Dreamers deal

Swim19 · 08:37 AM

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Key Senate Republicans have begun privately discussing the contours of an immigration plan to shield the hundreds of thousands of Dreamers who will lose work permits and deportation protections starting early next year.

Preliminary talks show that influential GOP senators are eager to devise a legislative fix for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals that could pass muster with both Democrats and President Donald Trump, who said he will start winding down the Obama-era program in March to force lawmakers to come up with a permanent DACA measure with significant border security and enforcement provisions attached.

In an interview, Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) said the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, has convened a working group on immigration that includes himself and GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and James Lankford of Oklahoma, as well as other lawmakers. Sens. David Perdue of Georgia and Jeff Flake of Arizona also are among the Republicans who have been engaged in the talks, according to sources.

“There’s a solution to be had there,” Cornyn said. “But we just need to get on with it.”

A bipartisan DACA deal is in no way imminent. Democrats are waiting for Republicans to offer their list of demands in exchange for legalizing Dreamers. And an immigration package that gets through the Senate, even with GOP sweeteners, may have trouble in the more conservative House.

But some outlines of an agreement are becoming clearer. For instance, the senators have all but ruled out including a mandatory workplace verification system known as E-Verify in a final DACA agreement, according to multiple lawmakers engaged in the talks.

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A handful of Republicans have run ideas by Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second-ranking Senate Democrat who first wrote legislation that gives Dreamers a pathway to citizenship in 2001. Durbin and Graham have been pitching the latest iteration of the DREAM Act, although Graham says he’ll need to secure some concessions from Democrats to lock down enough GOP votes. The DREAM Act, for instance, covers a much broader population than the estimated 690,000 immigrants who currently hold DACA permits.

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“We cannot put comprehensive immigration reform on the backs of these kids,” Durbin said in an interview. “That is unfair and the long list of things that Republicans want to do include many things that need to be saved for a later debate on a comprehensive bill.”

Still, Durbin expressed some optimism: “I think we’re at critical mass here in terms of the number of Republican senators once we reach an agreement. We haven’t reached an agreement yet.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/1...44082?lo=ap_b1

Got_Daca · 10-24-2017, 07:07 AM

There will be SOMETHING done for daca

Alfredo93 · 10-24-2017, 09:47 AM

I really think Republicans don't want E-Verify. Their donors are heavily opposed to that program.

fl_dreamer · 10-24-2017, 09:53 AM

so now its 690K DACA recipients. Can someone get the number right? How hard is it to get a number from USCIS or DHS?

ceaguila · 10-24-2017, 12:25 PM

Finally some news of negotiations..Lindsey Graham being there is important since he's an author of DA and is very close to Trump right now..

JJ Glo · 10-24-2017, 12:50 PM

Novemember is the month a deal has to be reached!

eva02 · 10-24-2017, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Alfredo93

I really think Republicans don't want E-Verify. Their donors are heavily opposed to that program.

Money talks, exactly. Only far right republicans do.

That’s why Bannon is high jacking the party.

Koch republicans claim to be anti immigrant to win elections but would never pass anything like e verify or build the wall.

legodego · 10-24-2017, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Alfredo93

I really think Republicans don't want E-Verify. Their donors are heavily opposed to that program.

passing DA = giving GC to daca kids = naturalization = sponsoring parents = less cheap work force

hmmmmm sounds like the same people wouldnt want the DA

versailles · 10-24-2017, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Alfredo93

I really think Republicans don't want E-Verify. Their donors are heavily opposed to that program.

it means less $$$ for them.
the country makes a killing having people that are basically indentured laborers contribute to the economy without giving anything back to them in return.
people don't understand that e-verify is an attempt to stop this abuse.

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