President Donald Trump says young undocumented immigrants have nothing to worry about from the Supreme Court. The Senate begs to differ.
Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) has been on the front lines of the Senate’s immigration battles for decades, including trying unsuccessfully to work with Trump over the past three years. He says after so many stalemates, there’s no reason to believe Trump’s optimism this time around.
“The man is not looking for a solution. Stephen Miller and his gang are in his ear and his mind with their hate-filled approach to immigration. He crumbles every time his heart starts moving to” the Dreamers, the Illinois Democrat said. And that won’t change “unless in a moment of desperation he thinks it’s his only way to get reelected.”
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With the Supreme Court’s conservative majority casting serious doubt this week on the future of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, Congress is facing the very real possibility of having the issue dumped on its doorstep.
The court is expected to make a ruling sometime next spring — right in the middle of an election year, when the politics of immigration will be even more difficult. And there is simply no recent evidence that points to Congress coming to a deal, throwing into doubt the deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the country as children.
Since passing a comprehensive immigration overhaul in 2013 that was ignored by the House, the Senate has been unable to get 60 votes for a substantial immigration bill. The chamber did pass a spending bill delivering aid to the border this year, but Democrats battled one another so fiercely over the matter that it made the party only more skittish to deal with the Trump administration.
Source: Don’t count on the Senate to save Dreamers from SCOTUS
