Republicans Aren’t Budging on Immigration

James Hohmann: “Anti-immigration hard-liners are staking out a firm position because most of them are not actually concerned about the plight of the dreamers. They have never thought these young people, whose undocumented parents brought them to the United States as children, should be here anyway. They agitated for Trump to end the program.”

“This means they’ll be fine if no bill passes, and they know that gives them way more leverage to demand wholesale changes to the entire legal immigration system.”

As Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) told Fox & Friends: “The president’s framework bill is not an opening bid for negotiations. It’s a best and final offer.”