With the Supreme Court’s conservative majority casting serious doubt this week on the future of DACA, Congress is facing a real possibility of having the issue dumped on its doorstep
President Donald Trump says young undocumented immigrants have nothing to worry about from the Supreme Court. The Senate begs to differ.
Since passing a comprehensive immigration overhaul in 2013 that was ignored by the House, the Senate has been unable to put 60 votes together for any substantial immigration bill. The chamber did pass a spending bill delivering aid to the border this year, but Democrats battled each other so fiercely over the matter that it only made the party more skittish to deal with the Trump administration.
Coons said when he tries to re-engage Democrats on immigration, they remind him of the 2018 debacle, when the president rejected a bill that would have provided a massive $25 billion for border security in return for protecting DACA recipients and their parents. That bill failed 54-45, and the president’s plan to cut legal immigration in addition to dealing with DACA and the border wall fared even worse, dying 39-60.
“The night before it had 60. … And overnight we lost six Republicans,” said Sen. Susan Collins . “I read different things and hear different things that [Trump] is actually sympathetic to the DACA population. But he’s obviously under pressure from hardliners like Stephen Miller to do the wrong thing.”
And though the Senate is controlled Republicans, the GOP is generally more divided than the Democratic Party on the issue. Trump
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