On Tuesday, it was announced that Lindsey Graham is stepping aside from leading bipartisan negotiations on what to do with the nearly 800,000 illegal immigrants shielded from deportation by the soon-to-end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The South Carolina senator hit a wall after the White House announced that his plan with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., was “dead on arrival.” Graham went out kicking and screaming, complaining that President Trump’s senior adviser Stephen Miller was derailing talks.
“As long as Stephen Miller’s in charge of negotiating immigration, we’re going nowhere,” Graham said to CNN on Sunday. “He’s been an outlier for years. There’s a deal to be had, DACA plus for more border security funding. … And we’re going to have to do something with legal immigration increases, because we don’t have the workers we need.”
