[ April 19, 2024 ]
President Donald Trump’s plan to control borders — as outlined in his State of the Union speech — was put into legislation and carried by Sen. Charles Grassley. But it went down in flames, and 14 Republicans are in part to blame for its failure.
Now the country’s back where it started, facing a budget fight this March, round-the-robin talks on immigration, and a Democratic-controlled process, despite the fact Republicans hold the majority in both houses of Congress.
Whom to blame?
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Well, for starters, the 14 Republican senators who jumped ship on Trump’s plan.
From the Hill:
President Trump’s immigration framework faced an unexpected opponent this week as it crashed on the Senate floor: Republicans.
The opposition from more than a fourth of the GOP conference came despite an intense pressure campaign by the White House and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which shot down back-to-back bipartisan offers.
In the end, 14 GOP senators rejected Trump’s proposal, helping make it the least popular of the Senate’s competing measures.
Here’s a look at the GOP senators who bucked Trump.
Sen. John Barrasso (Wyo.)
Barrasso, who is up for reelection in 2018, was one of two members of GOP leadership to oppose Trump’s plan. His vote came roughly a day after he called the White House framework “very generous.”
“I want to make sure that we have a secure border. I want to make sure that the laws are enforced and I want to make sure our citizens are safe,” he told Fox News this week.
A spokeswoman for Barrasso didn’t respond to a request for comment. But the conservative senator has said he believes the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was illegal.
Sen. Susan Collins (Maine)
Collins was at the center of a bipartisan group that negotiated for months to come up with a rival plan to Trump’s. Hours before the votes, DHS warned that the proposal would undermine the rule of law and the White House threatened to veto the Common Sense Coalition’s plan.
“I’m personally very disappointed in the administration’s response,” Collins said.
The bipartisan group’s amendment has serious policy differences from the White House plan.
It doesn’t touch the State Department’s diversity visa lottery program and included narrow changes to family-based immigration that would have been limited to DACA recipients.
Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas)
Cruz, who is up for reelection in 2018, repeatedly took shots at the framework because it included a path to citizenship for 1.8 million immigrants, which he considers “amnesty.”
The opposition from more than a fourth of the GOP conference came despite an intense pressure campaign by the White House and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which shot down back-to-back bipartisan offers.
In the end, 14 GOP senators rejected Trump’s proposal, helping make it the least popular of the Senate’s competing measures.
Here’s a look at the GOP senators who bucked Trump.
Sen. John Barrasso (Wyo.)
Barrasso, who is up for reelection in 2018, was one of two members of GOP leadership to oppose Trump’s plan. His vote came roughly a day after he called the White House framework “very generous.”
“I want to make sure that we have a secure border. I want to make sure that the laws are enforced and I want to make sure our citizens are safe,” he told Fox News this week.
A spokeswoman for Barrasso didn’t respond to a request for comment. But the conservative senator has said he believes the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was illegal.
Sen. Susan Collins (Maine)
Collins was at the center of a bipartisan group that negotiated for months to come up with a rival plan to Trump’s. Hours before the votes, DHS warned that the proposal would undermine the rule of law and the White House threatened to veto the Common Sense Coalition’s plan.
“I’m personally very disappointed in the administration’s response,” Collins said.
The bipartisan group’s amendment has serious policy differences from the White House plan.
It doesn’t touch the State Department’s diversity visa lottery program and included narrow changes to family-based immigration that would have been limited to DACA recipients.
Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas)
Cruz, who is up for reelection in 2018, repeatedly took shots at the framework because it included a path to citizenship for 1.8 million immigrants, which he considers “amnesty.”
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“I find myself flabbergasted at where my own party is in this debate because every proposal that has Republican support that has been submitted begins from a place markedly to the left of President Obama,” Cruz said ahead of the Senate’s votes.Sen. Steve Daines (Mont.)
Daines doesn’t support the DACA program and has said he doesn’t want to see it extended.
“I don’t support extending the DACA program. This was an unconstitutional act that President Obama [did] via executive order when he was president and I hope that we can find a solution going forward here that is broader than just the issue on DACA,” he told Montana Public Radio earlier this year.
Sen. Mike Enzi (Wyo.)
A spokesman for Enzi said he opposed the immigration amendments offered “because he felt they did not properly address” illegal immigration.
“He has said that Congress needs to ensure that our immigration laws are compassionate, especially to children, but also fair to American citizens. He believes there are lawful ways for individuals to earn citizenship and that people who want to come to this country need to follow them,” the spokesman said.
Enzi, who previously called DACA “unconstitutional,” also thinks immigration reform is “best dealt with in small pieces, instead of comprehensive legislation,” his aide said.
Sen. Jeff Flake (Ariz.)
Flake was heavily involved with the bipartisan immigration negotiations and has been one of the loudest critics of the White House’s framework over concerns about its restrictions on legal immigration.
He told reporters this week that while the White House’s framework should be part of the “discussion,” the Senate needed to work out its own plan.
And he’s doubling down on his short-term patch following the Senate’s failed votes, which would pair a three-year DACA extension with border security funding.
Sen. Jim Inhofe (Okla.)
Inhofe opposed each of the Senate’s three immigration plans, while backing a push to limit federal funding to “sanctuary cities.” He said the White House plan “made a number of important reforms” including boosting security at the border and limiting family-based immigration.
“[But] I’ve consistently stated that I could not support an immigration bill that puts illegal immigrants ahead of the men and women who have followed our laws and have applied for citizenship legally,” he said.
The White House framework, spearheaded in the Senate by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), created a 10-12 year path to citizenship for roughly 1.8 million immigrants brought into the country illegally as children.
Sen. John Kennedy (La.)
Kennedy said on Twitter that he opposed the Senate’s immigration proposals “because none of them prioritized border security.”
Both the White House framework and the bipartisan coalition’s plan included $25 billion in border security.
Kennedy supported Sen. Pat Toomey’s (R-Pa.) amendment to limit funding to jurisdictions that don’t follow federal immigration law.
He also offered several of his own amendments, which didn’t get a vote, including requiring the census to include questions about nationality and immigration status.
Sen. Mike Lee (Utah)
Lee said after the Senate’s votes that Congress needs a “balanced approach to the DACA program.”
“One that discourages future illegal immigration while also offering a compassionate solution to current DACA recipients. None of the plans that addressed DACA today achieved that balance,” he added.
Many conservative lawmakers, as well as their allies off Capitol Hill, balked over the administration’s decision to extend citizenship to DACA recipients and expand the total number of immigrants potentially covered from roughly 700,000 to 1.8 million.
Sen. Jerry Moran (Kansas)
Asked why Moran didn’t back the president’s plan, a spokesman noted the GOP senator supports a fallback option he is working on with Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and John Thune (R-S.D.).
Their plan is significantly narrower than the White House framework. It provides a permanent extension of legal status, but not citizenship, only for current DACA recipients. It is tied to a $25 billion border security trust fund.
Moran noted in a statement announcing the immigration plan that the measures “must not inadvertently encourage further illegal immigration.”
He didn’t directly address the White House framework, but some conservatives argue that extending legal protections to the broader 1.8 million population encourages more illegal immigration.
The Moran-Thune-Portman proposal, by comparison, would limit legal protections to current DACA recipients, or roughly 700,000 immigrants.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)
Murkowski, one of the Senate’s most moderate Republicans, was part of the Common Sense Coalition and supported the group’s plan to pair a path to citizenship for 1.8 million immigrants to $25 billion in border security and limited changes to family-based immigration.
She added after the plan failed that it would have offered a “path forward.” “I am extremely disappointed that the Senate failed to advance our bipartisan proposal that provided both certainty for the Dreamers and critical improvements to border security,” she said.
Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.)
Paul voted against each of the Senate’s immigration proposals, including the White House plan.
His votes came after he told Fox News host Laura Ingraham this week that he was debating offering a conservative House plan crafted by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) as an amendment.
“We’re discussing that in our office, whether or not we ought to put that forward as an alternative,” he said.
Goodlatte’s plan would provide DACA recipients with a temporary, renewable legal status — rather than citizenship — in exchange for authorizing funding for Trump’s border wall, ending family-based migration and scrapping the diversity visa lottery program.
It would also crack down on so-called sanctuary cities, boost penalties for deported criminals who try to re-enter the U.S. and require that employers use an electronic verification system known as E-Verify to make sure they hire legal workers.
Sen. Ben Sasse (Neb.)
Sasse told the Lincoln Journal Star that he opposed “left-of-center proposals” taken up by the Senate on Thursday.
“I ran as a conservative and I’ll vote as a conservative,” he said.
Sasse added there could still be a path toward a “much simpler legislative package” that pairs protections for DACA recipients and secures the border.
Sen. John Thune (S.D.)
Thune is the highest ranking GOP senator to vote against the White House’s immigration proposal.
The No. 3 GOP senator has endorsed a narrower solution for weeks. On Thursday afternoon he announced that he, Moran and Portman had filed an amendment that would extend the legal protections of current DACA recipients while giving the White House money for the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
“Immigration policy is not easy, as this week has shown, but I’m confident that with a bill like the one we’ve just put forward, we’ll be able to find consensus among Republicans and Democrats,” he said in a statement.
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47 Comments
6 years ago
Trump should have ICE ready to deport all of the so called “Dreamers” the hour DACA expires.
6 years ago
Reply to
Rick Sanchez flashback 1998
I will volunteer to work in support roles to assist them.
6 years ago
Reply to
Wayne Ville ... a Deplorable
All US citizens should be given the green light to enforce border security with full immunity from criminal or civil charges for doing so. End of problem.
6 years ago
Reply to
Rick Sanchez flashback 1998
WHY isn’t that happening?
I would trade DACA, not “dreamers” for LEGAL immigration reform. The people we are getting here legally are unskilled, uneducated and all set for being government dependent. We desperately need MERIT based, English speaking with no possibility of being government dependent, a WALL, NO VISA lottery and E-Verify no longer voluntary. E-Verify is law but VOLUNTARY. All Trump has to do is make it MANDATORY!
There is a difference between DACA and “dreamers”. Dreamers are those that are here illegally with no strings attached to DACA ( Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) which is also unConstitutional. I;d rather bite the bullet on DACA and have MERIT based be applied to them, no arrests or time served and evidence of them being DACA people. We already have a database of them. DAPA was shut down and ideally the parent(s) ready or deported. DAPA are being deported when found. DAPA were adult ILLEGALS supposedly parents of DACA. Dont’ confuse the terms. There are about 30-40 million ILLEGALS here. With DACA we know of almost 800,000. That is a huge difference between 30-40 million illegals.
I hope from here on out, ANY Illegal is DEPORTED – DACA or otherwise to put more pressure on DEMS. They will use this as a campaign issue even though they did nothing. Ideally I’d like ALL ILLEGALS deported but I also know our LEGAL IMMIGRATION system is bringing in the SAME kinds of people that will be government dependent and it makes sense to leverage that to fix the legal immigration system. If we don’t, Trump may be the last Republican President we’ll ever have. The numbers are not in our favor….. We will be WORSE than Europe between “refugees”, “migrants”, open borders and mass immigration. NOW is the time to PREVENT that.
6 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
And end Chain migration and anchor babies!! That would have stopped many illegals from going to the US in the first place.
6 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
You asked “WHY isn’t that happening?” Because the ‘courts’ said it would not allow daca to expire….that President Trump couldn’t do that…..Only odamit could do what he wanted as so called president, but Trump can’t.
6 years ago
Reply to
Rick Sanchez flashback 1998
ALONG WITH MOMMY AND DADDY WHO BROUGHT THEM OVER HERE TO BEGIN WITH . THAT WAY FAMILIES WON’T BE SPLIT UP AND THEY CAN ALL GO TOGETHER ..
6 years ago
The most infuriating and disgusting thing about all these pro-immigrant fools, from politicians to rich individuals like Soros and ‘celebrities’ like Clooney and Jolie, is that in reality they would not allow an immigrant within 100 miles of their own upmarket neighbourhoods. But they are more than happy to dump them on the rest of us, especially in areas which already have economic and social problems. Also, their wealth and power means that they will never experience the problems and pressure on housing, schools, hospitals and public services from mass Third World immigration, because they can buy the best in properties, education and medical care. Despicable people.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mike Wolff
Which is why Clooney left his Italian villa and hightailed it back to the US after he had kids.
6 years ago
Reply to
honestynow
He left the U.K. because it is SAFER in the U.S.. He lives in CA, which isn’t much better but still pines away for MORE MUSLIMS!
6 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
He and his Muslim wife, Amal, had a villa in Italy…..but when the immigrants poured in and set up camp next door in the park area they left there real fast and came back to America……
I notice he hasn’t been real vocal since he came back to the states….or Breitbart and others aren’t quoting him lately…..now that he’s got babies….he’s not so hot to bring in invaders next door to his kids….
6 years ago
Dreamers are walking around in Soros-inspired venues with placards demanding citizenship. They wasted time by not going through the process and obtaining citizenship according to law. They are the future Dhimmicrats.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mark Steiner
Bear with me through this fictional but very representative scenario.
Verónica Mendenez comes to America with her parents by paying a coyote to slip them over near El Paso. She was fourteen, and spoke some English due to her Catholic Priest taking an interest in her..
Her family went on various welfare and government programs.
Verónica was comparatively bright, and did well in her government school compared to her fellow criminal aliens.
She was the darlin` of all of the teachers, and upon graduation received a full scholarship to a leftist left coast higher indoctrination feral cartel (USC). By now she was a lovely girl, and her charm* got her good grades through her California `university`( higher indoctrination). Her American classmates did not fare as well and, even though most had good enough grades to qualify for scholarships not available for American citizens.
After graduation with honors she is hired by a California Government Cartel (CGC).
She rapidly rose in the hierarchy and soon became an Agency “head”. The DimØ₡rats thought that she would make a perfect $enator and asked her to run for a vacant California Senate seat**.
My question is:
Were she deported would she not still be better off than she was when she entered America as a criminal alien?
How much did American taxpayers pay for this?
Were she deported would she not be better off than she was when she entered America as a criminal alien?
How much did American taxpayers pay for this “sucess”?
* charm: Since we may have yutes reading this I try to keep these stories clean.
** seat: Clearly California sees no problem with an illegal criminal alien running.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mark Steiner
And look at the angry demanding faces in the photos….the next generation of “entitlement” freeloaders….if they would be violent and demanding now before they are “citizens”…imagine what they will be like when they are “legal”…..no thanks.
6 years ago
They didn’t Buck Trump, they bucked a plan because it offers amnesty… again. Good grief, Trump promised not to do that.
6 years ago
Reply to
Tim Brown
See my reply above.
We desperately need to FIX our LEGAL IMMIGRATION system. What we are getting here legally is the same caliber as ILLEGALS – government dependent people that will vote for DEMS. I don’t know if Trump knew how bad our legal immigration system is when he spoke about ILLEGALS during the campaign. If we don’t change that, we are screwed as a country.
6 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
There is a lot a candidate for President doesn’t know until he steps into the SWAMP….that’s why I give him a pass on some things because he had no idea how bad it was inside the Deep State…..but he’ll figure it out.
We elected him because he was not a “career” politician…..but that also handicapped him when he first starts out….
6 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
The easiest solution is cut off all funds to anyone who isn’t a legal resident of this country…..food stamps, school lunches, medical, housing, and the old ones who are on OUR social security that we pay into all our working lives.
If we don’t GIVE them STUFF, they will go home.
6 years ago
Reply to
Tim Brown
Actually, they objected to changes to LEGAL immigration. If a wall is built, the problems there disappear.
6 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
No, because 1/2 of the illegals arrive here on airplanes. No citizenship for illegals under any circumstances. The 14 senators stood up for US citizens. Please thank them.
6 years ago
Reply to
14 senator patriots!
Yet, a person like me can’t afford the cost of a plane ride….to anywhere…even if I wanted to go somewhere….which I don’t.
6 years ago
Reply to
mztore
I don’t mind the cost so much as I refuse to be subjected to the treatment the TSA likes to hand out
6 years ago
Reply to
billdeserthills
Well, that too. A friend of mine did that and said it was the same as sexual harassment….and the friend was a man… Imagine how women feel if he (ex-military) felt that way.
6 years ago
Reply to
Tim Brown
Exactly right. The 14 GOP senators did the right thing. Trump offered a DemonRAT wet dream, and the DemonRATs weren’t smart enough to vote it into law. Thank Gawd for dumba$$ DemonRAT senators!
6 years ago
Reply to
Nailed it!
They would have brought it up for vote, but they didn’t have enough votes to do it…..They didn’t want to try and fail because it would look bad on them….
6 years ago
Reply to
Tim Brown
I think Trump knew it wouldn’t pass, he’s just playing with them again, meanwhile in another 2 weeks, it’s open season on DACA’s!!!!
6 years ago
VOTE all 14 OUT if they are up for re-election.
Cruz in particular is quite the SNAKE.
He’s doing photo ops at the BORDER along with establishment Pence.
Yet, WHAT does he to do help Trump?
Well, at one point he brought up TERM LIMITS for Congress. He does this for political theater. Ted Cruz, being a CAREER POLITICIAN, knows this will go nowhere. Here’s why, you would need a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate for term limits. Do you really think the swamp, including Ted would vote himself OUT of a job? getting Congress to agree to term limits on themselves is like asking turkeys to vote for Thanksgiving.
Here’s how it was set up by our founding fathers:
1. Two-thirds of state legislatures (34) pass bills applying for the Term Limits Convention.
2. Congress is mandated to call the Convention.
3. The Convention, which features delegates chosen by the states, proposes one or more term limits amendments.
4. Three-quarters of states (38) must ratify the amendment, either by legislature or state convention.
Good luck with ANY of it. What need to happen is an INFORMED ELECTORATE!
This HAPPENED when we elected Trump as President. No one though he’d win.
6 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
You are right on needing legal immigration reform – it should be very limited and based only on merit. BUT the Trump plan giving a pathway to citizenship to 1.7 million future DemonRAT voters PLUS their kids and spouses was not what we want. The 14 senators are American heroes. Thank them for shutting down the Trump plan. The Rand Paul plan is much better, but also needs to stop anchor baby citizenship which is unconstitutional.
6 years ago
Reply to
14 patriot senators!
Trump knew that wouldn’t pass…..or he wouldn’t have offered it….he knows what he’s doing…..it made the Dimms look really, really, stupid…and incompetent……now they have to answer to the base of why they didn’t vote for it……it was a trap for the Dimms……damned if they did….damned if they didn’t……
6 years ago
Voters take note, these alleged republicans are unfit for office, remove them.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
NO! They stopped Trump from giving citizenship to illegals! They are on OUR side!
6 years ago
Reply to
14 heros in the Senate!
It is entirely possible for an immigrant to be legal, all they have to do is follow the rules. Bending the rules for the convenience of illegals is not a good way to run a country.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Huh?
Yes, if an immigrant enters legally, they are legal. But someone who comes here illegally cannot be legal. They committed a crime by entering without permission. If we reward illegal entry with a path to citizenship for just 1 person, the entire world will know we aren’t serious about border security. Give them legal status but never citizenship. Giving them citizenship is why the 14 voted against the Trump plan. The 14 are patriots. Trump was wrong.
6 years ago
Reply to
Trump was wrong
The situation was allowed to get out of control by obimbo, remedial action is not going to be fast or perfect.
6 years ago
I’m pleased that 14 senators stood up to the idiotic plan proposed by Trump – that plan was a DemonRAT wet dream. If the DemonRATS had 2 brain cells in their heads they would have jumped on it like stink on shi+, and it would now be law. Thank Gawd we have 14 decent senators and a bunch of dumba$$ ones on the DemonRAT side. Dodged a bullet from Trump who is supposed to be on our side.
I think the Rand Paul plan sounds good. Legal status, but NEVER citizenship – no one who enters illegally should ever become a citizen. And as stated by felix99 we need legal immigration to be merit-based only. AND legal immigration should be very limited. They also need to outlaw such BS as sharia law within the USA.
All these third worlders roaming our streets are a good reason for national reciprocity for concealed carry.
6 years ago
Reply to
Light 'em up
AND NO MORE ANCHOR BABIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is unconstitutional to give citizenship to a child born in the USA to a non-citizen. Amendment 14, Section 1: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside……”
A non-citizen mother is not “subject to the jurisdiction of the United States” – she’s only here as a guest or visitor, temporary worker, etc.
6 years ago
This is a win for Republicans. If the Dimocraps voted against the Trump plan, then they voted against giving 1.8 million future Dimocrap voters citizenship. Thus, the Dimocraps voted against the DACA dreamers becoming citizens! Trump, and all Republicans, should use this to beat the Dimocraps over the head every day until after the 2020 elections.
Why would they do this? So they can lie and say it was the Republican fault. Most Dimocraps will believe it.
6 years ago
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6 years ago
These are ALL TRAITORS that MUST be voted out. They don’t understand what “illegal” means. Well, most are lawyers and they must write tens of thousands of laws to help them figure it out.
This is what lieberalism does to your brain. Mama, don’t send your kids to college.
6 years ago
Due to the presence of the likes of Collins, Flake, Paul, Murkoski, et al, this group can be labeled “the usual suspects”.
6 years ago
Instead of voting on each issue with separate bills they lump them all into one so they know it will never pass! Funding the wall, DACCA, Chain migration etc should be voted on separately!!!
6 years ago
WHY WOULD THEY VOTE AGAINST SECURING OUR NATION , UNLESS THEY ARE GETTING KICK BACKS FROM THE CARTELS AND BUSINESSES WHO THINK THEY ARE SAVING MONEY BY HIRING CHEAP LABOR . THING IS THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS CHEAP LABOR ANYMORE . THEY ALL HAVE TO GET MINIMUM WAGE NOWADAYS .
6 years ago
Cruz is a snake…….back during the primary he was down on the border with Lyin’ Cryn’ Glenda Dry Drunk Beck handing out Teddy Bears to WELCOME people coming across the border ILLEGALLY….that photo op was funded by an organization that gets money from Soros……
…And, during the election process he and Paula RINO Ryan co-authored an OP-ED in the WSJ promoting TPP and doubling the H1-B Visa numbers to take jobs from currently employed Americans….
And that’s just two of my points about Cruz…..don’t trust the snake…..remember the fable Trump repeatedly quoted during the election about the woman who saw an injured snake, took it home and nursed it back to health, then the snake bit her with poison. As she lay dying she moaned about how she had saved his life and he mocked her by saying that she knew what he was when she saved him and had no reason to complain now….
6 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
Sorry.. Believe what you want….but all evidence points to the contrary….
6 years ago
I am glad they voted down this bill. Why should we be giving amnesty and a chance for citizenship to people who broke the law. What about the thousands of people waiting to come here legally. Besides, if the wall isn’t fully funded, does anyone here actually believe it ever will be funded. Remember we went through this in the past. Reagan was tricked into thinking that amnesty for those here would end the problem. Instead millions more flooded in and now we have them and the so called DACA illegals. Isn’t it time to start enforcing the laws instead of trying to pander to these leaches.
6 years ago
I was surprised to see the number of DACA illegals go from 700,000 to 1.8 million. What! Goodlatte’s plan sounded good to me. But I’d add no anchor babies to that plan. Women come here when they are ready to deliver so then their babies are US citizens. We all know what goes along with that. Benefits what else! We need to get serious about the immigration problem we have. It’s totally out of hand. We all know the only reason the democrats are for all kinds of immigration is for the votes and that’s the only reason.
