Subject: Re: Trump: I Would Encourage Russia...
Nope. If you had put that bill on the House floor, it would have gotten plenty of Republican votes. The National Border Patrol Union supported it. There was nothing in it that immigration hawks hated (like a pathway to citizenship or DREAMER normalization) - the objections were entirely that it didn't have enough of what they wanted. That the things they wanted didn't last long enough or were hedged in by conditions. But the Senate Bill was not a messaging bill - else they wouldn't have gotten even Lankford (no immigration softy) to support.

You keep saying this without ever acknowledging that the bill had rotten stuff in it.
*The 3 year sunset. What, does securing the border expire in 3 years?
*Remanding of all immigration law cases to a democrat friendly court in DC
*Bailouts for blue cities
*the trigger provisions

For some reason, these concerns are being blown past. Why? Don't the democrats want to negotiate in good faith, after all? Can't have it both ways.