Senate Rejection May Mark End of Chances for Immigration Deal
- Trump-backed proposal, bipartisan compromise both fail
- White House standing firm on demands for immigration bill
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Chances for a broad immigration deal emerging from Congress this year are all but dead after the Senate within a span of a few hours on Thursday rejected both a White House-backed proposal and a bipartisan compromise to address the fate of 1.8 million young immigrants.
The stalled debate left lawmakers in both parties looking for a way out and the immigrants known as dreamers still facing a deportation threat unless a court intervenes. President Donald Trump showed no sign he would bend on his demands for cuts to legal immigration as his administration made all-out effort to kill the compromise worked out by a group of Republican and Democratic senators.