ICE deportations have already caused employment problems and increased homelessness where I live. Was hearing more about it at a meeting just last night. Nobody knew that immigration was so complicated!
The great Republican loose cannon rolls merrily along. Veni, vidi, devasti. Keep up your support of him Senator.
So what are you gonna do about it? Vote yes for the eventual bill, right?
Too fucking bad Graham, enjoy the fruits of your fucking president dickhead!
I’m confused, Senator Belle of the Ball. Trump carried South Carolina 54-40. Now your constituents don’t like this? Or your patrons/donors? There is a difference. The sweet thing is, no matter what the outcome, either you, or Trump, or your patrons, or your Trump voters gets screwed. Sad!
Oh how I do get tired of seeing Lindsey Graham running around in circles with his hair on fire and then asking for another helping of gasoline.
Graham said the move would be “devastating” to his state’s agriculture and tourism industries like that is a BAD thing.
Why can’t South Carolina simply abolish education after the 8th grade and just put those kids to work shucking oysters and picking cotton in snakey fields.
Fer Christ’s sake Lindsey…
Grow a pair!
Graham said that move would be “devastating” to his state’s agriculture and tourism industries, where jobs are often filled by immigrants.
I'm sure the final bill will have exceptions for golf courses, hotels, caterers, banquet facilities and other related job categories involved in the hospitality and resort industry. Just a hunch.Your party comes before your state or country, Senator.
Legal immigrants now, especially non-white ones, means more Democratic voters later. I’m sure you got that memo.
With unemployment about as low as it can naturally get in many states, the claim that RAISE will protect American jobs is pretty thin. I won’t say this very often, but Graham is right. Many industries in many states depend on an immigrant labor force. The food we eat every day depends on an immigrant labor force. But, T rump must pander to his crowd to keep them content in their delusions. They will pay at the check-out line at the grocery store for their own ignorance.
Trump-Backed Immigration Plan Would Be ‘Devastating’ For S.C.
But, of course, being a Republican first Graham will vote for it when push comes to shove.
Yes. the same temporary worker visas Trump’s dumps use.
Yes, Lindsey is always so compassionate. He wants more brown immigrants so he can use them in his Great War of North Korean Aggression.
I don’t think so. Immigration Reform is one area that Graham has been at odds with the GOP, for a very long time. His statement here is pretty consistent with his previous stances and votes. I would look to him to propose or get on board, a more bipartisan bill, ala the Rubio bill approach, as a counter offer.
It won’t go anywhere, but neither will Cotton’s bill. And Graham is signalling early on why it won’t go anywhere.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) saying he would like to see manufacturing and agriculture be considered skills that allow admittance under this plan because “not one dairy plants” in his state can “hire enough people to work.”
That’s because ICE raids in Milwaukee and Green Bay are frightening the hordes of immigrant workers on dairy farms, both the documented and undocumented.
Dairy farmers have had trouble filling jobs with local residents for years. The hours suck, the pay sucks, and the rural WI unemployment rate is pretty low anyway. (under 4pct).
The study, by Harvard’s George Borjas, first circulated as a draft in 2015, and was finally published in 2017. It drew attention from the Atlantic, National Review, New Yorker, and others. Advocates of restricting immigration declared that the study was a “BFD” that had “nuked” their opponents’ views. The work underpinning the paper became a centerpiece of Borjas’s mass-market book on immigration, We Wanted Workers, which has been cited approvingly by US Attorney General Jeff Sessions as proving the economic harms of immigration.
But there’s a problem. The study is controversial, and its finding — that the Cuban refugees caused a large, statistically unmistakable fall in Miami wages — may be simply spurious. This matters because what happened in Miami is the one historical event that has most shaped how economists view immigration.
Turns out the data in the Borjas study that Jeffy cites were over manipulated and the results are spurious…
Well the money they save on not buying health insurance will then go to paying for more junk food.
He was on the Gang of Eight committee, but the House wasn’t having any of it. I believe Cotton was a Rep in the House during that time.
But Lindsey , I thought Trumpy was one of your Best Boy Friends ?