With moving speeches and an impressive 68-32 vote, supporters of a sweeping immigration overhaul pushed their skillfully crafted compromise out of the U.S. Senate last week and into the jaws of a hostile Republican-led House. Struggling to come up with their own bill, GOP immigration hawks watched as the Senate measure took shape and noisily declared it would be dead on arrival in their chamber. If that means the system stays broken, too bad. The Senate's approach, they insist, repeats the mistakes of the last immigration overhaul, in 1986. The "mistake" they mention most is the provision that granted amnesty to 2.7 million immigrants who were living in the country without permission. Then,...
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