{"id":108371,"date":"2021-01-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-recruiting-gop-senators-for-amnesty-deal\/"},"modified":"2021-01-29T09:29:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T14:29:31","slug":"democrats-recruiting-gop-senators-for-amnesty-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-recruiting-gop-senators-for-amnesty-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Recruiting GOP Senators for Amnesty Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-recruiting-gop-senators-for-amnesty-deal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=108371&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Their targets include Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen Susan Collins (R-ME), Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Sen. Rick Scott (FL).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/536298-durbin-graham-teaming-up-on-immigration-bill\">TheHill.com<\/a> reported Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Il), the leading Democratic advocate for greater migration, working with Graham to draft a bill that would provide citizenship and work approval to younger migrants who were brought into the United States by their illegal-migrant parents.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If we can reach an agreement soon, very soon, we will have the base bill reintroduced and then that will be our starting point to build support as well as consider any additions, too,\u201d Durbin, the incoming chairman of the Judiciary Committee, told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Durbin, who also serves as Senate majority whip, said that the forthcoming bill \u201cwill resemble our similar efforts in the past.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The \u201cefforts in the past\u201d include the disastrous \u201cGang of Eight\u201d amnesty, which cost the Democrats five Senate seats in 2014 and the White House in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>According to the TheHill, \u201cGraham stressed that he views the bill with Durbin as a \u2018starting point\u2019 for negotiations and a \u2018good way \u2026to get more people involved.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Collins is also being targeted by Democrats \u2014 and she has declared she wants to get more season wor-permit for the state\u2019s tourist industry. She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/gop-senators-skeptical-immigration-reform-piecemeal-approach-gains-steam-white-house-1565198\">told<\/a> Newsweek.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe immigration bill proposed by the Biden Administration includes several provisions that I have long advocated for, such as establishing a path to citizenship for Dreamers who were brought to the U.S. as children and who know no other country as their home, deploying new technology to prevent illegal border crossings, and improving the employment verification process,\u201d Maine Senator Susan Collins told\u00a0<em>Newsweek.\u00a0<\/em>The Republican, long considered a moderate voice in the upper chamber, is the kind of senator the White House must get to support their bill with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/senate\">Senate<\/a>\u00a0split 50-50.<\/p>\n<p>But Collins continued that \u201cthe proposal falls short in several areas,\u201d such as failing to increase the cap on the number of H-2B visas that support Maine jobs and businesses. She added that Biden\u2019s plan should serve as a framework that can bring both sides together to improve the immigration system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), signaling his interest in an amnesty deal in a January 26 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/01\/26\/sens-romney-portman-ok-biden-amnesty-chief\">statement<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019ve been very clear as a member of the committee what is important to me when it comes to the position of DHS secretary: It is securing the border, fixing our long-broken immigration system by prioritizing legal immigration, and finding a permanent solution to DACA and TPS \u2026 Florida is an immigration state. We love immigration, but it has to be legal \u2026<\/p>\n<p>If Congress wants to find genuine consensus and permanent solutions, we have to start with securing the border, protecting American workers, and implementing safeguards against bad actors and those seeking to break our laws. I cannot support nominees and policies that will erase the gains we have fought for when it comes to securing the border.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Biden administration released its wish-list amnesty and cheap-labor bill but is signaling that it would cooperate to push through a series of smaller amnesty bills. Newsweek reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the White House sources said they know\u00a0Congress\u00a0is the one that passes legislation, not Biden, but said if Congress is able to put together a package with a path to citizenship for essential workers, Dreamers, temporary protected status holders, and agricultural workers \u201cthat\u2019s something the White House would give a good look at.\u201d The source was not authorized to speak publicly on the administration\u2019s plans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In early 2018, the Senate went through a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/midterm-election\/2018\/02\/10\/swinging-senators-plan-offers-trigger-for-amnesty-and-border-upgrades\">tangled immigration<\/a> debate where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) helped groups of Senators to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/midterm-election\/2018\/02\/14\/future-illegals-protected-under-schumer-plan-signed-eight-gop-senators\">sequentially posture<\/a> as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/midterm-election\/2018\/02\/15\/democrats-business-first-gop-senators-block-trumps-immigration-reforms\">pro-employer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/midterm-election\/2018\/02\/15\/lindsey-graham-lashes-dhs-criticism\">pro-employee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For years, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/03\/30\/harvard-harris-poll-5-in-6-americans-want-to-end-immigration-from-mexico\">wide<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2021\/01\/14\/poll-americans-want-companies-hire-americans-before-migrants\">variety<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/04\/13\/ipsos-poll-nearly-8-in-10-americans-want-immigration-moratorium-for-u-s\">pollsters<\/a>\u00a0have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/08\/05\/poll-swing-voters-hugely-oppose-2020-democrats-promising-more-immigration\">shown<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2020\/04\/24\/poll-trumps-opponents-applaud-his-jobs-for-americans-immigration-policy\">deep<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2017\/01\/31\/poll-shows-public-support-trump-migration-poicy\">broad<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2020\/05\/28\/business-poll-backfires-shows-public-wants-less-migration\">opposition<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/11\/16\/exit-polls-3-in-4-voters-want-less-immigration-during-and-after-pandemic\">labor migration<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 or the hiring of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2020\/08\/06\/ipsos-poll-public-opposes-migrant-workers-by-21\">temporary contract workers<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 into the jobs sought by young U.S. graduates.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2020\/04\/29\/washington-post-poll-hispanics-are-the-strongest-opponents-of-immigration\">multiracial<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2020\/07\/11\/poll-suburban-women-strongly-back-donald-trumps-migration-policy\">cross-sex<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/09\/24\/survey-hispanic-americans-most-opposed-to-illegal-immigration-defunding-police\">non-racist<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2018\/04\/27\/study-black-working-class-opposes-mass-migration\">class-based<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2021\/01\/27\/poll-democrats-say-they-want-amnesty-push-but-not-now\">priority-driven<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2021\/01\/22\/rasmussen-poll-liberals-and-wealthy-welcome-caravan-migrants\">solidarity-themed<\/a>\u00a0opposition to labor migration coexists with generally favorable personal feelings toward legal immigrants and toward\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2020\/07\/02\/gallup-shows-50-percent-of-democrat-want-more-immigration\">immigration in theory.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Their targets include Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen Susan Collins (R-ME), Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Sen. Rick Scott (FL).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3712,3715,3685,3698,3709],"class_list":["post-108371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-amnesty","tag-deal","tag-democrats","tag-recruiting","tag-senators"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}