Time is running out for the Republican leadership on immigration, as the right-wing of the GOP has refused symbolic fixes and Senate Democrats are promising to kill the bill targeting the president’s November immigration order.
On Tuesday, virtually every single Senate Democrat signed a letter asking Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to allow for a “clean” version of the bill funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The bill passed by the House had amendments that would defund President Obama’s November executive action on immigration.
“The House bill cannot pass the Senate,” the letter reads. “The President has also made clear that he will veto any bill that expressly limits his authority to exercise prosecutorial discretion on immigration matters.”
