McCain, Coons to introduce new immigration bill that omits wall funding: report

[pnwmom]

Source: The Hill

Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Christopher Coons (D-Del.) will introduce immigration legislation on Monday in an effort to reach a budget deal before the federal government's current funding runs out on Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The bipartisan piece of legislation provides recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, commonly known as "Dreamers," an opportunity for citizenship while ordering a study to figure out what border security measures are needed, according to the Journal.

DACA aimed to protect from deportation certain immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally when they were children.

Senate aides told the Journal that the plan would provide people who have resided in the U.S. since Dec. 31, 2013, with legal status and a path to citizenship.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/372272-mccain-coons-to-introduce-new-immigration-bill-that-omits-border-wall-funding?__twitter_impression=true

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THANK YOU, SENATORS MCCAIN AND COONS!

[SunSeeker]

1. No wall fumding is needed anyway. Trump promised Mexico will pay for it.

Hold him to his promise.

[pnwmom]

2. But they do have to pass a budget! So the pressure is on them now -- and McCain and Coons

have just shone a light down the path.

[brer cat]

3. I agree, pnwmom.

We have a chance now, and I hope McCain can convince enough republicans to go ahead and protect the Dreamers without the wall attached.

[pnwmom]

4. Now, I really hope that McCain has some good years left. n/t

[Scarsdale]

7. McCain has had

many chances to do the DECENT thing for many bills, yet he sided with the gop. I do not give this much chance, since unless there is $$$$$ atttached, the gop is not interested. Even the gop members heading for the door, Flake, Gowdy, Assa, (yes, I know) and Corker are afraid to do what is right and STILL follow the party line.

[pnwmom]

10. We are STILL better off with him than with the Rethug who is likely to replace him.

And if he were to die that year, a Rethug is guaranteed.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Absolutely airtight!

No wall funding is needed. Trump promised Mexico will pay for it.

Go get 'em, Donnie! Let us know when you've brought home the bacon!

[democratisphere]

5. Hope it passes.

[pnwmom]

6. We'll know this week. n/t

[itsrobert]

8. It won't

Even if it did, Trump is not going to sign this.

[efhmc]

11. We live in sad times.

From the joy and hope of my youth as a believer in America as a place for the possibility of equality and justice for all, I now see a person in charge of our country who is the exact opposite of everything I was taught. He is a profligate liar, an adulterer, a traitor, a bigot, a misogynist, a white supremacist, a war monger, a braggart, a financial incompetent, a religious fake, an anti-intellectual, a non-reader, a discriminator of propaganda, a failure as a husband and father, physically degenerate, lazy and inherently evil.