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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,192 posts)
Sun Feb 4, 2018, 04:34 PM Feb 2018

Fractured GOP struggles with immigration strategy

Republicans are barreling toward a fight over immigration despite divisions on what the party's strategy should be.

GOP lawmakers decamped Friday from a retreat in West Virginia meant to tout unity around their 2018 agenda without finding a consensus on what to do about recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

The political cacophony comes as the Senate is expected to turn to a debate as soon as this week on the fate of the Obama-era program, which allows certain immigrants brought into the country illegally as children to work and go to school in the U.S.

“In all likelihood no, we won’t have a single unified position on that. There will be wide varieties based on where your state is. ... We won’t have a single Republican message,” Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) told reporters.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/372103-gop-divided-as-immigration-fight-looms?userid=229233

In other words you guys really don't know what the fuck you're doing.

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Fractured GOP struggles with immigration strategy (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2018 OP
Compromise will be required -- but they only know how to refuse to do that struggle4progress Feb 2018 #1
It's a real problem for the GOP bearsfootball516 Feb 2018 #2

bearsfootball516

(6,377 posts)
2. It's a real problem for the GOP
Sun Feb 4, 2018, 04:36 PM
Feb 2018

Because some of the senators actually do want DACA. But they've created such a monster with the Trump base that they have to keep feeding it, or else they'll get voted out.

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