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I agree with you there. And what is amazing the democrats have masterfully characterized the impasse over the Senate Bill as the fault of Republicans.
It's not that amazing. The bill is all stuff that makes immigration harder, and no stuff that addresses what Democrats want from immigration reform. There isn't even anything about DREAMERs, which immigration advocates rightly regard as the low hanging fruit of immigration policy.
So the bill is correctly perceived as a capitulation to Republicans, offered only so that the President can get his Ukraine funding and not because it represents any type of compromise on immigration policy. The GOP has been hammering that migrant flows are an intolerable problem, the Democrats offer them a bill that only tries to cut down on that problem in ways that immigration hawks like (more money for detention, enforcement, and processing! tighter eligibility criteria! more expedited removals!) with virtually nothing on the other side of the immigration ledger....just so the administration can get the Ukraine funding. The Administration has forced the immigration Left to swallow it. And the bill is going to die because of Republican political considerations.
