There has been 1 article addressing Congress's timeline regarding immigration. To summarize
1. Not this year- too much other stuff to do
2. They will wait for Trump to say it is ok to negotiate. He won't do that until he can declare victory against the immigrants and brag about it.
If the house goes to the democrats next year, then we will have to wait until the next president for immigration to be brought up.
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5534436
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BUSTILLO: Right. Ultimately, any permanent solution has to come from Congress, but the coalition that cares about this issue is a little bit fractured right now. I spoke with several GOP senators and representatives that have all previously supported finding a pathway for DACA recipients. And Senate Democrats have been increasingly vocal about the urgency to find a solution because arrests are happening. Still, Republicans control both chambers of Congress, and there was the consensus that nothing would happen this year. There are simply other concerns at the top of lawmakers' minds, like keeping the government from shutting down, for example. And they also said that they were waiting for the president himself to say that it's time to broker a deal. There are a few efforts in the House and Senate, individual bills that would provide a pathway to legal status for DACA recipients. But there isn't a sense that they will move anytime soon, even as Trump's deportation efforts only grow.
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