Good news. Breitbart reports:
Six Republican Senators have failed
to develop a coalition for their plan that exchanges a fifth of border wall
funding for an amnesty for illegal aliens and increased immigration.
The plan, described to Breitbart
News, was a creation of Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Susan Collins (R-ME),
Thom Tillis (R-NC), Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Rob Portman (R-OH), and Lisa
Murkowski (R-AK) and would have tied $5.7 billion in funding for President
Trump’s proposed border wall to an amnesty for illegal aliens enrolled and
eligible in President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
program.
Sen. Rob Portman is always a squish, but I had thought that Sen.
Lindsay Graham was finally growing a spine. But you knew he was playing both ends against
the middle on border security when he encouraged Pres. Trump the other day to declare an emergency and build The
Wall. At least now he is backing off the DACA amnesty: “I see no path
forward...”
More here.
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