The open-borders lobby has an old and successful playbook: Highlight a few of the most sympathetic cases deserving of amnesty and then write an amnesty policy that covers as many unsympathetic cases as possible.

But Republican Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina are calling the Democrats' bluff when it comes to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals beneficiaries.

Democrats want to use the possible loss of DACA to pass a much wider amnesty for all illegal immigrants who enter the country illegally as minors. This would include those who entered the country five years ago, those pouring across our border today, and those who cross illegally in the future.

Facing a probable court decision that will take legal protections away from current DACA beneficiaries, Cornyn and Thillis have asked Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, to schedule a hearing on narrow legislation that would grant permanent legal protections only to current DACA recipients.

This was not enough for Durbin, who told reporters he was "disappointed" in the Republican offer and declined to schedule such a hearing.

Now that the Democrats have rejected Republicans' honest effort to protect current DACA recipients, it is clear that it is the Democrats' desire to use DACA recipients as cover to achieve maximum amnesty that is to blame for any loss of protection for DACA recipients.

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