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A relatively quiet congressional effort to achieve bipartisan progress on immigration appeared to meet an untimely end last week.

For all the acrimony surrounding immigration politics, a majority of Americans have long supported two goals: giving undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children a pathway to legal status, and securing the country’s southern border. With only days remaining in the current Congress, lawmakers have an opportunity to…

WASHINGTON — Sens. Thom Tillis and Kyrsten Sinema saw the writing on the wall.

Rather than protect Dreamers, GOP lawmakers push to strengthen border measures

WASHINGTON — Sen. Thom Tillis regrets nothing.

The House passed the American Dream and Promise Act in March 2021, which would allow DACA recipients, or “Dreamers,” to apply for permanent residency and end the legal limbo that has repeatedly jeopardized their ability to stay in the United States.

Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema declared herself a Marxist on Friday. Not Karl; Groucho. As in, “I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.” She felt compelled to leave the Democrats, she explained, because of the “broken partisan system” and said that she had “joined the…

Passing legislation to protect same-sex marriages in the Senate was a monthslong effort, building on a decadeslong push

WASHINGTON — Senators this week questioned whether a recently proposed bipartisan immigration deal can pass before the end of the year, with no legislative text available for lawmakers to review and limited floor time in the lame-duck period.