Immigration 'Compromise' Was an Even Bigger Flop Than Their Last Bill

Ed Kilgore
June 28, 2018
1:26 am

Last week Republicans lost 41 votes from their own members as the hard-core Goodlatte immigration bill went down to defeat, by a vote of 193-231. That wasn’t surprising; the bill was well to the right of Donald Trump’s own proposal, providing no “path to citizenship” for Dreamers and including every nasty provision anti-immigration ultras had been pining for.

So as a follow-on, Paul Ryan and company scheduled a vote this week for the “compromise” immigration bill that House Republicans have been slaving over for weeks, which was designed to bridge all the differences within the caucus on immigration policy (Democrats were irrelevant in this process, and were excluded from the beginning). It became clear that the “compromise” bill wasn’t going to pass either, but no one expected the fiasco that occurred when it was finally brought to the floor. Here’s Roll Call’s summary:



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