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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who decides what gets a vote in the Senate, has decreed that the bill passed in the House putting Dreamers on a path to citizenship will “probably not” get a vote in the Senate. Translation: Mitch McConnell said that Mitch McConnell will “probably not” allow it to happen, which means he won’t but wants to seem like he’s talking about something abstract rather than a decision he is personally making.
“I think the Dreamers have a sympathetic case,” McConnell told Fox News Radio. “There are circumstances under which I and others would be happy to support that. But we need to do more than that. You know, there's some genuine fixes on the legal immigration side and on the illegal immigration side that need to be addressed.” Translation: I’m an enormous liar, and don’t Dreamers make nice little hostages?
In addition to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients, the House bill also offers protections for people with Temporary Protected Status and Deferred Enforced Departure. But McConnell and Senate Republicans won’t vote on it, and Donald Trump wouldn’t sign it.