With DACA left out again, advocates figure out their next move

Step 1: Senate vote next week

There is one glimmer of hope for advocates. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made good on his promise to tee up an immigration debate on the Senate floor next week. Moments after the Senate passed the deal, McConnell filed to have a vote to open debate on an unrelated bill Monday evening -- which will kick off a process where an as-yet-unknown number of amendments will be able to compete for a procedural threshold of 60 votes to then pass the Senate.

Step 2: Pressure Ryan

If the Senate can pass a bill, lawmakers hope Trump will fully embrace it, freeing House Speaker Paul Ryan to call it up.
Already as the budget deal was on track for passage, House advocates began a pressure campaign to urge Ryan to make a promise like McConnell -- though Ryan continually demurred and insisted instead he's committed to the issue of immigration and passing a bill the President can support.

Step 3: Other leverage

If the legislative process can't produce success, advocates say, they will look for any other leverage points they can.
"If that doesn't work out, then there's still an omnibus at the end of the day," said Menendez, referring to the spending bills due in March to fund the government under the topline two-year budget deal passed Friday.
But Gutierrez doubted that approach -- scoffing at the idea that Democrats would be taken seriously if they threatened to withhold their votes yet again without success.


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Democrats need to stfu!! It’s gonna be impossible for them to campaign off us now

oh but they will. Pelosi loves taking pictures with Dreamers and give speeches. Schumer loves to milk the dreamers by having a lot of #tags on his twitter "I stand with dreamers" #Dreamactionnow blah blah.

It’s up to all of us to embarras and shame them any chance we get

2/10/2018 3:34 pm

If you watch the video he looks like he’s having a very hard time reading what he is saying lmao

Act local, think...nationally.

My two Democratic Senators work very hard for all vulnerable communities. I support them because I see the evidence of their work in our state and for my community's immigrants.

Durbin does this too. Not the others who brand themselves 'leadership'.

Gameplan has been played before with the same pieces, house killed it in the end.

We will see how it turns out. I think the house would have no choice but to play ball especially if Trump supports a bill that passes the senate.

I don't think the House will pass anything the Senate passes. If anything, they will treat it as a shell and start pouring in radical amendments. Even Trump during his famous meeting with bipartisan congress members briefly mentioned (if i remember correctly) that legislation should start in the house.