TL;DR version of where everything stands, at least legislative-wise:

- Flake's bill (RACA + $1.6 b. border security + Gang Deportation) is on the Senate floor. No guarantee it will be voted on: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-...verview=closed

- Grassley/Conyn's bill (BRIDGE Act + Chain migration limitation + E-Verify + Border Security) also on the Senate floor. Democrats have rejected the bill.

- Discharge petition in the House for the DREAM Act has 196 signatures (22 short), including two Republicans (https://dreamact.info/forum/showthread.php?t=78674). BRIDGE Act also has a discharge petition but with five signatures.

Political-wise:

- POTUS has rejected DACA fix in the year-end spending bill, due Dec. 22 to avoid the government shutdown. (https://twitter.com/markknoller/stat...75633264500738)

- GOP leadership has also rejected DACA fix. Democrats have not ruled out a shutdown, but Dem. leadership "doesn't think they'll get to the (shutdown)." Whatever that means. Several Democratic senators and congressmen, as well as GOP Rep. Carlos Curbelo, have vowed to vote no on the spending bill without DACA fix.

- White House has a bunch of proposals for DACA fix that Democrats have dismissed as "non-starters" (Legal immigration cuts, etc. https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/08/polit...les/index.html).

- So-called "Gang of Five" bipartisan senators are working on DACA fix (http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news...fore-years-end).

- 34 GOP congressmen have urged Ryan and GOP to have DACA fix before January. Freedom Caucus has urged Ryan and GOP to not include DACA fix in the year-end spending bill.

- Colorado GOP Rep. Mike Coffman has said Problem Solvers Caucus, a bipartisan congressional group, "is close" when it comes to coming to its own DACA fix.