What's happening here is that the Democrats are determined to upgrade the immigration debate from a policy one to a moral/religious one. What that means is, they are refusing to concede the moral legitimacy of the other side of the debate
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They seemed up for the Graham Durbin deal until Trump killed it? Trump may have poisoned the well too much at this point
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You mean the one that amnestied not only the DACA people but their parents too? I don't think it was something that any serious restrictionists supported
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Then you've defined serious restrictionists to a group that's a pretty small minority
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Graham/Durbin had the most votes of any of the 4 bills the Senate voted on iirc, and the most restrictionist one had the least
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The Graham Durbin bill would have been the largest amnesty in the country's history as far as I recall. I asked you what restrictionist measures the Dems are willing to sign onto, to cite this as an example is absurd
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As big as Reagan's? I mean...you asked me to name a restrictionist measure, you didn't put any other requirement on it other than that. But now I see the bar keeps rising.
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Graham Durbin got a majority of Senate votes. Trump supported it until Miller got to him and convinced him otherwise. With Trump's support it would prob have passed the House. Seems like one of the bills that could pass, so idk why it would be viewed as a leftist plot.
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I don't see how it can be called restrictionist by any stretch of the term, though. It was just an amnesty. We know that the GOP Senate is not representative of the GOP base when it comes to views on immigration
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