Four separate votes on four separate immigration packages all failed on Thursday, leaving the immigration debate as stuck as it has ever been and adding to the failures of 2007, 2010 and 2013. And that's despite the almost universal desire to pass something — anything — to protect “dreamers.”Now we're headed for a game of chicken. It's now about public pressure and gamesmanship as we draw closer and closer to the possible end of DACA. If and when they get deported, it will be because of an action Trump took. But strictly speaking, Trump is the one who undid DACA, and Congress could probably pass a stand-alone DACA bill immediately if he urged Congress to do so.

Source: Washington Post February 15, 2018 22:40 UTC