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Sen. Tom Cotton says he’s open to adding legal status for DACA recipients to RAISE Act
« on: September 06, 2017, 05:23:24 pm »
Sen. Tom Cotton says he’s open to adding legal status for DACA recipients to RAISE Act
Washington Times, Sep 6, 2017, Sally Persons

Sen. Tom Cotton said Wednesday that he’s open to granting legal status to children brought to the U.S. illegally as part of his proposed legislation.

“My legislation doesn’t include that now, but what I’m proposing is that we can sit down and negotiate, include legal status for the 600,000 to 800,000 people who are covered by the DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals] program, and discuss the problem,” Mr. Cotton, Arkansas Republican, said on MSNBC.

“That would create a secondary effect, make sure we’re not opening legal status for people who violated law in the first place, and that we’re not encouraging parents in the future to bring their children across our border,” he added.

Mr. Cotton’s proposed RAISE Act aims to build a skills-based immigration system similar to Canada or Australia while decreasing the amount of legal immigration overall. He and Sen. David Perdue, Georgia Republican, who helped draft the bill, say this will increase competition in the immigration system, bettering the overall economy. Mr. Cotton also said that his policy would fix the immediate problem and be a first step toward incrementally changing the broken immigration system.

“I’m saying that we shouldn’t try to do the same thing Congress has failed to do three times in the last 11 years, which is solve every single problem we have. We should address the problem in front of us and mitigate the consequences of that action,” he said.


http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/sep/6/tom-cotton-says-hes-open-to-adding-legal-status-fo/
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Re: Sen. Tom Cotton says he’s open to adding legal status for DACA recipients to RAISE Act
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2017, 05:24:18 pm »
Isn't he a "conservative" leader in the Senate?
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Re: Sen. Tom Cotton says he’s open to adding legal status for DACA recipients to RAISE Act
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2017, 05:33:28 pm »
No such thing as a "Conservative" in the Land of Mordor on the Potomac.

Anyone who is one and is breathing the fumes there for any length of time, turns into an Orc serving the Dark Lord.

That's the truth of what DeeCee is now.

The entire federal Beast is wholly corrupt, evil and Socialist or worse.

I wish Irma was hitting Washington DC instead of Florida and the Carolinas.

The entire place needs to be cleansed.
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Re: Sen. Tom Cotton says he’s open to adding legal status for DACA recipients to RAISE Act
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2017, 05:41:54 pm »
Quote from: INVAR on September 06, 2017, 05:33:28 pm
No such thing as a "Conservative" in the Land of Mordor on the Potomac.

Anyone who is one and is breathing the fumes there for any length of time, turns into an Orc serving the Dark Lord.

That's the truth of what DeeCee is now.

The entire federal Beast is wholly corrupt, evil and Socialist or worse.

I wish Irma was hitting Washington DC instead of Florida and the Carolinas.

The entire place needs to be cleansed.

The Zombie Apocalypse's center of gravity is the Capitol Building.

I'm very disappointed with the goings on...I certainly didn't cast my vote for this BS.
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Re: Sen. Tom Cotton says he’s open to adding legal status for DACA recipients to RAISE Act
« Reply #4 on: September 06, 2017, 05:43:18 pm »
The only way DACA should even be on the table is leverage for some serious Dem concessions on immigration.

Of course that won't happen, the Reps will just cave and move on.
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Re: Sen. Tom Cotton says he’s open to adding legal status for DACA recipients to RAISE Act
« Reply #5 on: September 06, 2017, 05:45:13 pm »
Another conservative flunks the purity test.  :silly:
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Re: Sen. Tom Cotton says he’s open to adding legal status for DACA recipients to RAISE Act
« Reply #6 on: September 06, 2017, 05:50:00 pm »
The headline may be misleading, all he seems to be saying is there can be discussion on this:

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Emily Tillett CBS News September 6, 2017, 8:06 AM
Sen. Cotton: Legal status for young immigrants would have "negative consequences"

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"If we're going to give legal status to these young people in their 20's and 30's, who are here through no fault of their own, we have to recognize that's going to have negative consequences," Cotton said on "CBS This Morning" on Wednesday. 

Cotton said that if Congress crafts new legislation that would allow for the so-called "Dreamers" to be granted legal status, it would "open up a whole new category of people who could get legal status, namely their parents who violated the law by bringing them here, and it's going to encourage other people to bring their children here across the border in the future, which is a very dangerous thing to do."

"You can't dispute just as a logical matter if we give legal status that it's going to encourage more immigration," Cotton, who added, "we should have an open, common sense discussion about that."

Cotton noted, however, that Mr. Trump is attempting "to deal with this situation in the most orderly way possible" by having Congress step in and take action, something he says he's happy to help with in order to "forge some kind of compromise."

The Republican said the president has even cited his own legislation, the RAISE act, as a means for a potential solution to immigration reform, which Mr. Trump himself gave his seal of approval at a White House event last month.

Continued: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senator-tom-cotton-legal-status-for-young-immigrants-negative-consequences/
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Tom Cotton to oppose clean DACA extension after Trump calls for legislative fix
by Al Weaver | Sep 5, 2017, 1:43 PM
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tom-cotton-to-oppose-daca-extension-after-trump-calls-for-legislative-fix/article/2633407
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Tom Cotton Gets the DACA Conundrum Exactly Right
Posted at 1:44 pm on September 5, 2017 by streiff
https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2017/09/05/tom-cotton-gets-daca-conundrum-exactly-right/
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