Nonbinding Immigration Measure Causes GOP Uproar

“House Republicans’ objections to a nonbinding immigration measure upended debate over the annual defense policy bill Thursday, in the latest example of intractable GOP divisions over the party’s thorniest issue,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Conservative Republicans revolted over a measure from Rep. Ruben Gallego (D., Ariz.) encouraging the Pentagon to review whether to allow some immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children to enlist in the military… The debate over a ‘sense of the House’ provision that even Mr. Gallego said had ‘no teeth’ underscored the level of GOP opposition to even narrow immigration measures.”