Immigration Plans Stuck in Congressional Limbo as Deadlines Loom
- Budget, congressional campaigns leave little room on agenda
- Court case on DACA gives some time, but no clear path ahead
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The anticlimactic failure of U.S. immigration legislation last week sent senators scrambling for fallback options to avoid the deportation of young people who arrived in the country as children.
But between upcoming fiscal deadlines, congressional election campaigns and a stubborn stalemate over legal immigration restrictions, none of the plans put forward so far are enticing either side as the clock ticks toward expiration of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals that President Donald Trump has ordered to an end.