UPDATED: Graham: Stephen Miller makes immigration deal impossible
Source: The Hill
BY JORDAIN CARNEY - 01/21/18 02:10 PM EST
GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) warned on Sunday that the White House staff is undercutting President Trump and Congress's ability to get a deal on immigration.
"Every time we have a proposal it is only yanked back by staff members. As long as Stephen Miller is in charge of negotiating immigration, we're going nowhere," Graham told reporters as he headed into a closed-door negotiation with a bipartisan group of senators. He added that "the White House staff, I think, is making it very difficult."
Miller, a White House aide, is well known for his conservative views on immigration. He was formerly a staffer for then-Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), who frequently opposed bipartisan immigration deals.
Miller authored the White House's wide-ranging immigration plan, which includes wall funding and cracking down on cities that don't comply with federal immigration law.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/370006-graham-stephen-miller-makes-immigration-deal-impossible
UPDATE
Lindsey Graham wants anti-immigration nut Stephen Miller booted from negotiations: We are going nowhere
DAVID EDWARDS
21 JAN 2018 AT 14:19 ET
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Sunday warned that President Donald Trumps hard-right policy adviser Stephen Miller was preventing legislation that could end the current government shutdown.
On day two of President Trumps first government shutdown, Graham told reporters that he was hopeful for a Sunday breakthrough that could re-open the government.
But he also cautioned that Trump policy adviser Stephen Miller could kill any immigration deal. Graham suspects Miller is responsible for scuttling an earlier deal on so-called Dreamers after Trump had agreed to it.
Every time we have a proposal, it is only yanked back by staff members. As long as Stephen Miller is in charge of negotiating on immigration, we are going nowhere, Graham reportedly said.
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Hav
(5,969 posts)Bipartisan proposals get declined again and again by the most extreme voices of this Administration. Yet they can blame the Dems while keeping a straight face.
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)calimary
(81,461 posts)is the smarmy, butt-ugly face God gave him. Howd you like having to look at that hairline in the mirror every morning?
But it matches, and actually fits him. Ugly on the inside as well as the outside.
Stuart G
(38,445 posts)deminks
(11,017 posts)Kelly, Miller, Javonka, the goat, a porn star. They all get the PDB, so why not?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)skylucy
(3,743 posts)proposals.
randr
(12,414 posts)LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)not fooled
(5,801 posts)holding the U.S. Government hostage.
Great, just great.
Didn't we already decide Nazis shouldn't run things?
Oh, and the idol raygun made deals on immigration and granted amnesty. Today's pukes are by comparison, well, Nazis.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)not fooled
(5,801 posts)He's taking it out on the country because he was ridiculed in high school for being a racist.
djacq
(1,634 posts)joshdawg
(2,651 posts)They've proven that over and over and over again.
They are completely clueless as to how to govern and they refuse to educate themselves.
But then, they are republicans.
tanyev
(42,610 posts)So much worse than all the other seasons.
dawnie51
(959 posts)No one here ever believed for a moment that Dump was running ANYTHING. But one could hope that it was someone with half a brain. To find out that this idiot boy with unresolved hated issued is the one running the show is beyond frightening. But it's good that it is coming out into the spotlight. Illuminate all of the roaches. Then step on them.
TheRealistRealist
(180 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,281 posts)that Lindsey is not as dumb as he looks and sounds. It's as if Stephen Miller were magnanimous.
czarjak
(11,289 posts)Trying to feel sorry for you, for some reason it's just not happening.
William Seger
(10,779 posts)== "fucking bigot"
jimmil
(629 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,192 posts)But then he was Jeff Sessions' boy
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)The fact that he, an avowed white nationalist, is there at all is an absolute outrage. White Nationalism and Nazism are NOT viable ideologies that deserve accommodation or a place at the table. Period.