White House: We Will Not Sign the Durbin-Graham DACA Proposal
Posted at 3:56 pm on January 22, 2018 by streiff
The core issue that brought about this silly 72-hour shutdown is what to do about DREAMers. That issue is still alive and kicking and will take center stage as the next continuing resolution deadline, February 8, comes thundering upon us.
While Mitch McConnell has pledged a debate and vote on the issue, the important thing to keep in mind that the only deal on the table right now is the Durbin-Graham proposal dreamed up by the so-called Gang of Six. As I posted a short time ago, this deal is horrendous. Of the four points laid out by the White House as being the requirement for any deal–protect the DREAMers, build a border wall, fix chain migration, stop the visa lottery system–Durbin-Graham does only one. It gives lip service to border security, it gives protection to the parents of DREAMers–this will inevitably result in those people being made resident aliens–and it does zero on chain migration or the visa lottery system.
https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2018/01/22/white-house-will-not-sign-durbin-graham-daca-proposal/
