UPDATED: Graham: Stephen Miller makes immigration deal impossible

[DonViejo]

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

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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 Trump’s hard-right policy adviser Stephen Miller was preventing legislation that could end the current government shutdown.

On day two of President Trump’s 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]

1. So how again it is the fault of the Democrats?

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]

13. Damn good point!

[calimary]

20. Indeed. The only thing even minimally satisfying about that treason weasel

is the smarmy, butt-ugly face God gave him. How’d 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]

2. Well..it looks like Graham is telling the truth again...??

[deminks]

3. I have been wondering lately who the goddam prezinut is

Kelly, Miller, Javonka, the goat, a porn star. They all get the PDB, so why not?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. Putin, apparently. . . . . nt

[skylucy]

4. Seems to me it is Stephen Miller AND John Kelly who are undercutting bipartisan

proposals.

[randr]

5. Trump has let the unelected run his show because he hasn't a clue about what to do

[LuckyLib]

22. This sums it up exactly.

[not fooled]

6. A Nazi

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]

11. Nazis in the White House!? Miller is exactly like this:

?1487119951

[not fooled]

15. Revenge of the nerd

He's taking it out on the country because he was ridiculed in high school for being a racist.

[djacq]

7. This is why Republicans shouldnt govern.

[joshdawg]

12. They can't govern.

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]

8. This season of The Apprentice really sucks.

So much worse than all the other seasons.

[dawnie51]

9. Bring all the shit out in the light......

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]

14. Amen to all of this n/t

[bucolic_frolic]

10. It still bothers me

that Lindsey is not as dumb as he looks and sounds. It's as if Stephen Miller were magnanimous.

[czarjak]

16. Gosh, Lindy...

Trying to feel sorry for you, for some reason it's just not happening.

[William Seger]

17. "conservative views on immigration"

== "fucking bigot"

[jimmil]

18. Miller is a full on nut case.... N/T

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. Creepy little fucker

But then he was Jeff Sessions' boy

[RandomAccess]

23. He needs to be booted from the White House

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.