Thread: Graham says Cornyn border Security Amendment too Expensive

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham raised concerns Tuesday about the price tag of an amendment to the immigration reform bill proposed by Texas Sen. John Cornyn to increase border security, saying it was too high to be feasible.
Graham, a Republican member of the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” that authored the comprehensive immigration reform bill, told reporters that Cornyn’s amendment, which would increase the threshold for border security, “as constructed, it’s gonna add 20 plus billion dollars” to the cost of reform.

“It’s kind of odd: we think sequestration’s a good thing, but we’re gonna throw money at the border. That’s a little schizophrenic,” Graham said.Cornyn’s office has not yet released the text of the amendment, which he outlined in a Dallas Morning News op-ed on Monday, leading one Senate aide to question Graham’s assessment of cost.

“It’s pretty remarkable that Sen. Graham managed to get his hands on a CBO score of an amendment that hasn’t been released or put into text yet,” the aide told The Daily Caller.


Graham said his assessment was based on the number of new border patrol agents Cornyn’s proposal would add, saying that “10 thousand border patrol agents” would cost over $18 billion, a calculation he appears to have based on estimations for the cost of the Gang’s bill, which would add 2500 new border patrol agents and cost over $6 billion.
Cornyn’s office pointed out that, in fact, the amendment only called for the addition of 5,000 new agents.


Though the text of the amendment is not yet available, Cornyn press secretary Drew Brandewie told The Daily Caller: “We agree it has to be practical and achievable, which is why we appropriate the exact same amount as the Gang of Eight: $6.5 billion.”


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Send them back to their own country,
We will save billions on food stamps, medical, housing and over crowded schools.
get rid of dangerous gangs, and rapist and killers here that shouldn't be here to begin with.
Then we will have money for our boarder security, and can start protecting our country.
After all wasn't this the reason homeland security was created???

Yeah Graham wants the taxpayers to support all the illegals with benefits but does not want money spent on border security. He is definitely a Dem playing like he is a Republican. Sad that there is so many like him right now....sell outs willing to contribute to the demise of the country.

This is what we expected, amnesty and no enforcement or border security.

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CORNYN RELEASES TEXT OF BORDER SECURITY AMENDMENT

by TONY LEE
12 Jun 2013,

On Wednesday, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), the second-ranking Republican in the Senate, released the text of his amendment to the Senate's immigration bill that would prevent illegal immigrants who become legalized after the bill's passage from even applying for Green Cards, let alone citizenship, until the border is secure.

Breitbart News' Mike Flynn wrote on Tuesday that Cornyn's amendment, which is 134 pages, could decide the immigration bill. Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has already referred to it as a "poison pill."

As Byron York notes, if Cornyn's amendment is adopted, illegal immigrants who have been "granted registered provisional immigrant status" would not be able to get their status adjusted in 10 years unless the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Commissioner of United States Customs and Border Protection certify, under the penalty of perjury, that various border security triggers have been met.

The amendment calls on them to "jointly submit to the President and Congress a written certification, including a comprehensive report detailing the data, methodologies, and reasoning justifying such certification, that certifies, under penalty of perjury, that:"

(i) the Secretary has achieved and maintained full situational awareness of the Southern border for the 12-month period immediately preceding such certification;

(ii) the Secretary has achieved and maintained operational control of the Southern border for the 12-month period immediately preceding such certification;

(iii) the Secretary has implemented the mandatory employment verification system required by section 274A of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1324a), as amended by section 3101 of this Act, for use by all employers to prevent unauthorized workers from obtaining employment in the United States; and

(iv) the Secretary has implemented a biometric entry and exit data system at all airports and seaports at which U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel were deployed on the date of the enactment of this Act, and in accordance with the requirements set forth in section 7208 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (8 U.S.C. 1365b)

York said the provisions were "well received" by Republican lawmakers, except for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who, along with Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and John McCain (R-AZ), is a member of the Senate's "Gang of Eight."

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1. If The Border Security Amendment is TOO Expensive; Hows that 6.3 Trillion Price Tag for Amnesty Working Out For Ya AmeriKa

2. Can We PLEASE BUY A CALCULATOR for Sen. Lindsey Graham

3. South Carolina - You Need to Justify Why In The HELL to keep Electing this INCOMPETENT GOOF BALL