Sen. Lindsey Graham said Thursday that he was preparing a bill that would protect from deportation immigrants who’d entered the United States illegally as children, because “it’s the right thing to do.”
“I hope members of Congress will say, ‘Listen, if we repeal the executive order the right thing to do – the thing that will make America great – is to deal with these kids humanely and fix this problem comprehensively,’ ” Graham said Thursday. “It’s not a substitute for immigration reform; it’s just the right thing to do.”
Graham said, “I want to have the legislation ready, saying that there is bipartisan support to go ahead and give these people legal status.”
Read more at the Charlotte Observer:
It’s another poorly-written article. It does not say how “Children” would be defined. It doesn’t say if the parents of such children would receive preferential treatment and be allowed to stay here.
Further, it does not mention that Lindsey Graham is a Liberal, and that he is not to be trusted, either in what he says or in what he does.
Well considering that by definition most Liberal RINO’s and Democrats are law avoiding “children-in-adult-bodies” themselves,,, we had best just ignore them, maybe even spank them out of office and let the adults again protect THE PEOPLE, lest the illegal children they reflect be allowed to govern and rule the adults, in the same manner of ILLEGALITY. Baby rattlers are just as dangerous as the adults and sometimes even more so. Emotion is one thing to avoid at all costs when deciding cogent rational responses by government and when emotion is used instead of REASON the costs in Long term suffering just to get the 15 minutes of emotional high are exactly what makes successful nations become failures and bankrupt.
Whenever government leaders protect just illegal “Hope and Change” DREAMERS instead of LEGAL empirical, successful law abiding PRODUCERS, the dreams always eventually turn into nightmares. Have we learned NOTHING these past 8 years Lindsey?
It is not about ‘the right thing to do’, it is about the RULE OF LAW!
South Carolinians surely are boiling hot over this Progressive Lite’s anti-American ideals. Come 2020 I will be sending money to the Conservative that runs against Lindsey “Goober” Graham. It would be nice if the state would decide that he isn’t living up to his 2014 promises and recall him, but it takes a lot to get rid of these jerks, eg. his brother John “Conservative Every 6 years for three months” McCain,his son Jeff “The” Flake(come on Arizona! There’s gotta be a Conservative who can beat these Leftists), and his dad Mitch “Kentucky Blue Blood” McConnell, et al. Without a doubt America would be a LOT better off with these guys in their rocking chairs instead of the Senate kissing the MSM’s and DNC’s southern extremeties. Senators, the media doesn’t really like you and never will. You have an R behind your name, and even though it has absolutely no meaning to you, it does to them. I know you are PO’d that Trump is getting all the ink and the American people love him. He just repudiated everything you stand for!
liberty49 it is about the right thing to do. The Rule of Law IS the right thing to do. Graham has his head where the sun don’t shine and is suffering from oxygen deprivation. He does not have a clue what the right thing to do is.
And his calls of ‘Do it cause its the right thing to do”.. RIGHT FOR WHOM??? Certainly not the millions of law abiding US CITIZENS who have been hurt by illegal invaders over the past 50+ years.. Certainly not to the hundreds of thousands of foreigners STILL IN THEIR HOME COUNTRIES< going through the PROPER and legal channels to come here.. AND Certainly not for someone who supposedly swore an OATH TO UPHOLD OUR LAWS.. not uphold what HE or she personally feels is right/just, regardless of what the law says..
So Graham, you need to just go sit and swivel.. AND take a long walk off a short pier!
Pansy graham is the biggest “dreamer” of them all. What makes him think he has any relevance any more?
Building on that, is there any way we can get Graham deported? Iran is pretty nice this time of year. North Korea. The Chernobyl exclusion zone. Mars. There are plenty of good places to deport him to.
[ What makes him think he has any relevance any more?]
Cause there’s just too damn many liberal dunces in South Carolina, who kep VOTING this dimwitt into office…
I had the unfortunate experience of listening to Chris Vance from Washington State where I live. He and Lindsey should maybe start their liberal republican party and see how that goes….?? Vance had a chance till he decided he was smarter than the rest of us about Trump.
No Obummer, oops I mean Lyndsey, hard to tell you two apart, they need to go. Just like you. Leave the Republican party and join the Dems. You would feel much more comfortable there. Remember, you are insignificant these days. Go crawling to Obummer, I’m sure he would love for you to join him.
Hey Lindsey, put on your diaper and go to your safe space with Jeb Bush. You and Jeb can then go to bed together, with your coloring books, crayons, play dough and you two can show your love for the illegal aliens, who are costing the American Taxpayer billions of dollars. Liberal RINO TRASH!!!!!
And if you love illegals so much Lindsay, then open up your OWN DAMN house to them, along with your OWN check book… And stop forcing every law abiding US citizen to foot the bloody bill for them.
Oh hell no! Round them up and ship them out… Mr. Trump if this passes whip out your pen and veto this…They will not overturn a veto…
What a disgrace for a US Senator.
For the human race.
Hell, imo he is a disgrace to the entire planet EARTH..
Senator Graham , Regardless of weather you are young or old if you cross US boarders ILLEGALLY you committed a crime and should be sent back to the country of origin .
whether not weather
border not boarder
Let’s not give the libs the ammo to say the right is uneducated.
He was the only Senator to vote against impeaching Bill Clinton. He took part in trying to oust Newt as Speaker. He was a member of the Gang of 8 on immigration. And he has the nerve to think he’s Presidential material.
How SC can send Graham and a fine American like Gowdy to DC is beyond me. Hopefully there will be a serious contender for his seat for the 2020 election.
Graham is an idiot that needs to be deported along with all the so called “dreamers”. What part of Illegal doesn’t he get?
Saying that something that has been done that is illegal is the “right thing to do” is illogical.
Who else do we know that is always saying “it’s the right thing to do” and he’s not a Republican and neither is Lindsay.
Its typical liberal insanity.. Right is wrong, wrong is right. Good is bad, bad is good, evil is just, up is down etc..
illegal is still illegal- send them back and let them take him with them.
Even the look on L.G.’s face, in this picture, clearly tells me – shows me, he has indeed have a few glasses of the Obama Kook-Aid.
Wow, and I do mean wow. How is it the people from that state keeps voting for him?
.. Jj …
Maybe the insanity that is pervasive out west has moved east and infected the water supply down there..?
Agreed, the humane thing to do is to keep the families together. The correct thing to do is to send them as a family unit back to their country of origin. Hand them the paperwork to petition for legal citizenship. Then inform them that they will have to wait 5 years before they may apply, as a penalty for breaking our laws. In addition, they will need to reimburse the US taxpayers for all benefits that they received illegally minus any taxes for which they can demonstrate proof of payment.
Other than the “Hand them citizenship papers they can submit in 5 years”, i agree with the rest of what you wrote.. IN NO WAY should we hand paperwork granting citizenship to any of these ILLEGAL scum..
The right thing to do is to obey the laws of the U.S. Another right thing to do is to enforce the immigration laws already in place. I say send them all back home and then they can begin the process of legally coming to the U.S. If the kids are allowed to stay, then their illegal parents have to be allowed to stay also. This is unacceptable.
First of all, THEY ARE NOT CHILDREN ! Secondly, since the largest source of revenue for Mexico is remittances sent from the USA to Mexico -$26 BILLION IN 2015 – (this $$ can be sent because they are all illegally living on every form of welfare-they came here because everything is free – at US taxpayer expense)….the Mexican Government is shipping them here as fast as possible AND they began issuing contrived birth certificates via the Mexican Consulars – 1000s as no one knows who they really are, their true age, when they arrived & they are experts at producing any fake document necessary to meet their needs…here are the alleged parameters for the alleged DREAMERS – Let Lindsay Graham adopt them all if he’s so compassionate”…….the worthless non verifiable rules follow:
Not have entered the United States on a non-immigrant Visa.
Have proof of having arrived in the United States before age 16.
Have proof of residence in the United States for at least five consecutive years since their date of arrival.
If male, have registered with the Selective Service.
Be between the ages of 12 and 35 at the time of bill enactment.
Have graduated from an American high school, obtained a GED, or been admitted to an institution of higher education.
Be of good moral character.
AND YOU DON’T EVEN HAVE TO SPEAK ENGLISH!!!!
If they are not here legally, have not pursued a LEGAL path to gain proper residency, and have been using fake paperwork, how can ANYONE of sane mind call these scrumps as having “good moral character”?
Message to Goober “Just Call Me Lindsay” Gump, get the interlopers out of our country
And under Obama’s executive order the Dems will try to wiggle everyone into the get-to-stay bin. The parents, grandparents, great-great aunts & uncles, babble on about the extensive family tradition of Hispanics & allow the neighbors to claim kinship. Do what’s right for Americans, not foreigners. Deport them. They can blame their parents not us. The Dems are importing votes not doing the right thing.
What gets me is that in many cases (as several investigative reports have shown) they often claim the SAME KIDS for multiple families on ‘Family child tax credits’, and in a large # of cases, those kids they are claiming are NOT EVEN IN THE BLOODY COUNTRY.. So in NO WAY should a single member of their family be considered, since we keep getting PROVEN That they claim ANYONE and their mother is ‘part of their kin’.. PROOF or no proof…
Another lefty who “writes his own reality.” The right thing to do is obey the law and enforce the law.
Well. My position on this subject is that all those kid came here illegally. But have been here for a long time. It’s our own fault. They were admitted from elementary to HS schools. Let’s do not trash all of them and send them back. They are Christian, good students. A benefit for USA. A potential contributors to our economy.
Look for the criminals and get them out. Leave the good christians and the hard working people that already had integrated to our culture.
How can they “integrate into our culture” when the very IDs they’ve been using to get through the schools and collect benefits had to have been forged or stolen?
And if many are ‘good christians’, then why do they still STAY HERE ILLEGALLY and make NO effort to try and become a LEGAL resident, learn the language, integrate into OUR society etc??
Encouraging exploitation of children is NEVER “the right thing to do”!
Sorry. Just because the Obama administration decided to ignore this problem doesn’t make it right to continue to do so. I think it’s time to drain the swamp and the first fat mouthed RINO toadie to go should be Lindsey Graham. Term limits can’t come soon enough.
It has nothing to do with the “right thing”! The right thing is getting all of the illegals and refugees out of the country and using the space and money for Real Americans. Those born here, those who served this country, those who earned their place in this country. These freeloading ones have not gone through the process like millions before them who earned the right to be here. They need to go and this person needs to go with them. People of his State are just as bad as he is if they allow him to keep going as their representative!
Drain the swamp of these vermin!
I wonder how long these dunces in office would survive if they were dropped into a REAL swamp!
I for one applaud Sen. Graham’s intent to do something ‘Comprehensive’ about immigration reform, however little do we or he understand what that means. First we would have to know who all the ‘Dreamers’ are just to get a grasp of the magnitude. History indicates, voluntary registration is in itself a ‘Dream’ and can’t be accomplished under currant regimens. Of the 1.8 million estimated immigrants, here now, congress must first decide how to vet ‘status’ to compile a list of possible candidates. Note: those with non-criminal status must be ahead of those including fraudulent registration in accepting Government funds. So who will be the first to admit to felony counts sure to result in ‘Deportation’ and just how the ‘HELL’ do you do any of this without being labeled an ‘Extreme Raciest Bigot’ not to mention how many are on voter rolls as citizens, which in itself is criminal…
I think it’s time to stop using the term “Dreamer,” even in quotation marks. It gives these lawbreakers an aura of starry-eyed innocence that’s supposed to cover up what they’ve actually been doing for most of their lives. Let them stop “dreaming” about a peachy-keen future and start buckling down to account for (and maybe straighten out?) their past and present.
Most of us citizens would go to jail for identity theft, which is the only way to be able to work, etc.
Good point. I know 3 people who DID get punished with jail (6 mo for two 18mo for the other) fo ID theft.. One was military (she compromised my credit card and checking account), two were civilians.
YET I have heard of over 4 dozen illegals who got bammed for working illegally and ALL were on fake ID’s.. YET NOT ONE did it ever get mentioned if they ever went to jail FOR THE ID THEFT or not…