Guest Post by Joe Guzzardi
Last week, the United States Senate – allegedly the world’s greatest deliberative body – proved that, on immigration if nothing else, it can’t get out of its own way.
The Senate voted down four of four immigration amendments, three of which would have granted amnesty to illegal immigrants. After the Senate failed to reach an immigration agreement, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that, finally, the upper chamber would move on to other business. The immigration debate now shifts back to the House where more chaos is guaranteed.
Immigration analysts who hoped that the Senate would make meaningful strides toward eliminating chain migration, population growth’s biggest driver, came away disappointed. Although President Trump has repeatedly identified ending chain migration as one of his most important immigration goals, the amendment he supported would have kept it rolling, and then some.
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