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The Senate on Thursday defeated a bipartisan bill that
many Democrats thought was their best shot at finding an immigration
agreement, in a vote that will likely force the Senate to go back to the
drawing board on an issue that President Trump has said needs a
solution by March 5.
The Senate called up an immigration proposal from Sen. Susan Collins,
R-Maine, Mike Rounds, R-S.D., and Angus King, I-Maine, that would have
enabled citizenship for 1.8 million young people who were brought to the
United States illegally as children. The legislation would provided $25
billion in border security funding and would prohibit Dreamers from
sponsoring citizenship for their parents.
The proposal would have codified Homeland Security enforcement
priorities to serious criminals and those who arrived in the country
illegally after January 1.
But it does not include language to end chain migration and the
diversity visa lottery, two goals that are important to Trump and most
Republicans. And as expected, it failed to win the 60 votes needed to
end debate on the language due to stiff Republican opposition — it fell
in a 54-45 vote.
Kamala Harris of California, Martin Heinrich of New Mexico and Tom
Udall of New Mexico were the only Democrats to vote against the bill.
This week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said the
bill was the “best chance” at reaching a deal, even though it excluded
two major GOP priorities.
The legislation was denounced by the Trump administration as a “mass
amnesty” proposal and President Trump threatened to veto it. But it won
the support of eight Republicans, and Rounds argued that it could serve
as a step toward some final agreement.
“We are bringing attention to the fact that you really
can work across the aisle,” Rounds said. “And you really can build a
coalition of people that will accept border security and $25 billion
dollars, and that we can do something for these kids while still laying
groundwork so that the parents do not get a leg up on anybody else.”
The failed vote followed two other bills that failed to reach 60
votes. First, the Senate defeated a bill from Sens. John McCain,
R-Ariz., and Chris Coons, D-Del., that tried to pair legal protection
for Dreamers and about $3 billion in border security funding, far short
of what Trump has demanded.
Most Republicans and President Trump are looking for $25 billion in
border wall funding, plus language on chain migration and the visa
lottery to tamp down on immigration levels.
The McCain-Coons bill couldn’t make the 60-vote threshold, and fell 52-47.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/best-chance-for-immigration-deal-fails-in-the-senate/article/2649221
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