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Graham to roll out extension of Obama immigration program

By Jordain Carney - 11/30/16 03:30 PM EST




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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Wednesday said he will offer legislation to extend a key Obama administration immigration program.

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"I'm going to introduce legislation with my Democratic colleagues and my Republican colleagues that would continue the legal status of the DACA kids," Graham told reporters.

Pressed on details of his legislation, which he'll roll out next year, Graham said: "It's going to be basically if you have legal status today, you'll continue to have legal status."

President-elect Donald Trump pledged during the campaign to nix President Obama's executive orders, including the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).

The program — which has faced a lengthy legal battle — provides people living in the U.S. illegally who arrived as children with work authorization and a temporary halt on deportation if they meet certain requirements.

While Graham said there's a "good argument" that Obama's move was illegal, he believes a temporary DACA extension would pass "overwhelmingly."

"If he repeals it then we ought to immediately pass legislation to extend their legal status. I'm willing to do that," he said. "I'm going to support legislation that will continue legal status for these kids until we can find a fix to the overall program."

Trump sparked backlash from Democrats, and some Republicans, during the campaign when he pledged to deport the roughly 11 million immigrants currently living illegally in the U.S.

He's seemingly softened that stance, telling CBS News that his administration would focus first on deporting undocumented immigrants who have ties to crime.

Graham was one of eight senators known as the “Gang of Eight" who spearheaded a wide-ranging immigration bill that passed the Senate in 2013.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who also worked on the bill, told NBC's "Meet the Press" that he wouldn't support "retroactively" removing DACA status but would recommend Trump not allow DACA permit renewals.

http://thehill.com/latino/308146-gra...ration-program

The fix is to boot them ALL out! Just go away Lindsey, We The People are back in charge. If you don't like it convert to the democrap side... you're most of the way there already. If you do this maybe it will wake SC up and they'll give you the boot too!

That's it, nomas. That is the only solution to "boot them all out". I don't care what the media says, I don't care what other countries say, this is our country, these are our borders, these are our laws, and we have every right to enforce them to the letter and verse across the board on the earliest possible date.

When they're all out, all their orgies collapse, the drug cartels are gone, the crime is gone, the poverty is gone, the burdens on schools and hospitals are gone, billions of unnecessary spending are gone, unemployment of our own is reduced, wages rise, it's all win, win, win.

We can get every single one of them out of here in less than 2 years. We have the money to do it, we have the resources to do it, we have the will to do it, and we have a new President who can't wait to do it.

From now on, when the MEDIA asks Trump what about illegal aliens, he needs to answer with one sentence, "I'm going to enforce the law, that's my job, that's my obligation, that's what I was elected to do, and that's what I'm going to do."

Sen. Lindsey Graham's devotion to Barack Obama and illegal aliens is absolutely sickening.

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Graham is a has been loser. It's over for him. He's on the wrong side of everything our country wants and needs.

Sen. Lindsey Graham is working on a bipartisan bill to protect undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children.

By Ethan Weston | November 30, 2016

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican, told Politico he's been talking to Republicans and Democrats about a bill to protect undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children.

That's in direct opposition to one of Donald Trump's campaign promises: to undo President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals directive aimed at giving legal protection to more than 700,000 undocumented immigrants.

After ending his presidential bid, Graham became one of Trump's biggest detractors in the Republican Party. Graham said he couldn't go where Trump was "taking the [Republican] party" and called on party members to unendorse Trump.

The senator hasn't always been a fan of stand-alone bills that protect young undocumented immigrants.

"You're wasting your time. We're not going to pass the DREAM Act or any other legalization program until we secure our borders," Graham said in a speech to the Senate in 2010.

But Graham has been a proponent of comprehensive immigration reform for years and was part of a bipartisan group known as the Gang of Eight working toward that end.

Graham said the bill wouldn't be up for a vote until next year when Trump will already be in office — so the new president and the Senate might be headed for a fight.

http://www.newsy.com/videos/graham-d...ed-immigrants/

Lindsey Graham bill to preserve Obama amnesty would create more DREAMers

Carlos Garcia December 9, 2016 4:10 pm
South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Summit)



Border security hawks might be even more animated against South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham’s attempt to preserve President Barack Obama’s DREAM Act executive order when they discover that it would also extend the program to illegal aliens who haven’t even applied yet.


From the Huffington Post:

The Dream Act would have granted Dreamers a path to legal status, as would the 2013 immigration reform bill that Durbin and Graham helped draft. The new bill would put DACA recipients into a new type of status, “provisional protected presence,” that would last for three years from enactment. It would not be constrained to only those who currently have DACA: eligible individuals who have not yet applied could be granted provisional protected presence as well.

Advocates for illegal alien have been demanding that Obama’s order be preserved despite Trump’s electoral victory and promises to end the program. Some Republicans have shown support for the idea, too. They’re likely motivated to prevent countless headlines decrying Republicans tossing out innocent illegal aliens who were brought into the country as children by their parents.


Trump himself seemed to signal that he would be willing to consider some kind of extension of the “deportation deferral” program for those already protected, but Graham’s bill would mean more illegal aliens would be able to apply for the protections. On the other side, immigration hard-liner Iowa GOP Rep. Steve King says he would oppose any amnesty, as it would just encourage more illegal entries into the United States.


Meanwhile, the fate of the 740,000 people granted “deferral status” hangs in the balance, and clarification from Trump is eagerly anticipated.

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/12...more-dreamers/