Congress’ immigration push sputters as guns grab attention

[rangerrebew]

Congress’ immigration push sputters as guns grab attention


By Alan Fram | AP March 2

WASHINGTON — It’s taken just two weeks for Washington’s immigration battle to fade from blistering to back-burner. Lawmakers now seem likely to do little or nothing this election year on an effort that’s been eclipsed by Congress’ new focus on guns, bloodied by Senate defeats and relegated to B-level urgency by a Supreme Court ruling.

Talks have gone dormant that sought a bipartisan package: A chance for citizenship for young immigrants brought to the country illegally and $25 billion for President Donald Trump to erect his treasured wall with Mexico. Even a proposal dangling modest wins for both sides — a three-year renewal of a program protecting hundreds of thousands of those young immigrants from deportation in exchange for a $7.6 billion down payment for the wall — seems a longshot.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/congress-immigration-push-sputters-as-guns-grab-attention/2018/03/02/d048bc9c-1de5-11e8-98f5-ceecfa8741b6_story.html?utm_term=.7bef8c746f23

[Sanguine]

Come on, guys.  You can do more than one thing at a time.

[Cyber Liberty]

Come on, guys.  You can do more than one thing at a time.

The politicians can, it's the Press that cannot.  The politicians can't do squat if they don't have the Press stampeding the population into some media-approved direction.