Meanwhile, Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), longtime immigration reform advocates, urged Congress to take up a DACA fix this month. But the Senate’s second-ranking Senate Republican quickly dismissed that possibility.

“There’s no way,” Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) said of taking up Dreamer legislation in September. “We will take that up. I’m confident. But there’s no way that it will stand alone.”

Another powerful Republican on immigration issues, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa, concurred, saying he doesn’t believe a standalone bill granting legal status to Dreamers can pass Congress by itself. Another influential Republican, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, flatly disagreed.

“I think by and large, if you were able to have a standalone vote on a good product, [you] could pass it,” Rubio, a member of the bipartisan "Gang of Eight" that crafted a sweeping immigration bill four years ago, said in an interview with POLITICO. “If you start adding other things to it, that’s where I think it falls apart.”

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The sooner democrats realize that nothing standalone will pass , the better for us.

“The bottom line of it is, I don’t think DACA as a clean bill can get through the Congress by itself,” Grassley said in a call with agriculture reporters on Tuesday. Grassley said it was an “opportunity for compromise between people that want DACA plus a lot of other things dealing with legal immigration, and I suppose even some things dealing with illegal immigration, that can probably be packaged together.”