"There will never be any agreement with wall funding"

S in. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Warned Sunday that a legislative solution to the partial closure of the government would not be passed by the Senate without funding for border security.

"In the end, there is an agreement to get," Graham said in an interview on CNN's "The State of the Union." "But everyone is changing their position here and most Americans are tired of it, so for my Democratic friends, there will never be an agreement without a wall of funding and many Republicans will offer something like an incentive. to vote for a wall funding .. supported in the past ".

Graham predicted Sunday that GOP lawmakers would give some legal status to "dreamers" currently protected by the Deferred Action Plan for Obama's children's arrivals in exchange for security measures at the border and reforms of the temporary protection framework. .

"Here's what I think could work: $ 5 billion for wall / border security – Democrats voted for more than that before – they married the Bridge Act, which the senator Durbin and I have written a unique one-year renewable work permit for the DACA population of about 700,000 people, "he said. "We have about 400,000 TPS people who came here after natural disasters and war-torn countries decades ago, their visas are exhausting, so basically $ 5 billion for the wall. , the Bridge Act, TPS, and some legal changes to remove some of these magnets to illegal immigration could save the day in the Senate. "

However, the Republican of South Carolina did not respond directly to repeated questions about why the agreement that he described would work now, while similar efforts had failed by the past.

Graham, who is to become the next chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee when the new congress will be held next month, also promised Sunday to investigate the deaths of two migrant children in government custody.

In the same interview, he said that he would be having lunch with President Trump on Sunday and would ask the commander-in-chief to reconsider the withdrawal of his Syrian troops.