Grassley: DACA deal wouldn't need border wall funding

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY JORDAIN CARNEY - 10/03/17 10:59 AM EDT

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said on Tuesday that a legislative fix for a key Obama-era immigration plan doesn't need to include funding for a U.S.-Mexico border wall, despite demands from some conservatives.

"Any potential deal on DACA has to include robust border security, and by that, I don’t mean a wall," Grassley said during a Judiciary Committee hearing on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

He added a potential deal that pairs a DACA fix with border security could, instead, include "tactical infrastructure," as well as stricter interior enforcement and e-verify—a program that allows an employer to check if an individual is able to work legally in the United States.

Grassley has previously acknowledged that any Senate deal would likely not include a border wall. But his comments on Tuesday come as Republicans are struggling to reach a consensus on how to pass a legislative fix for undocumented immigrations brought into the country as children.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/353605-grassley-daca-deal-wouldnt-need-border-wall-funding

[customerserviceguy]

1. Grassley's one of the last of the GOP moderates

when he's dead, they'll probably replace him with a Joni Ernst type.

[FreeStateDemocrat]

2. He knows the reality was that the wall is a non-starter. Ransoming people's future for political

advantage to advance an unpopular racist agenda is just "bad optics." I trust Grassly no further then the record of his vote on repeal of ACA. He's as moderate as comparing skin cancer to brain cancer, it's still cancer and either one can lead to a rapid and painful death. Pukes are all snakes, every fucking one of them.