Why have Republicans and Democrats moved so far apart on immigration?
We are publishing this as President Biden comes under extraordinary pressure to curb surging illegal immigration at the southwestern border.
Republicans have held up further military aid to Ukraine, demanding more border security in exchange.
And this month House Republicans opened impeachment hearings against Alejandro Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, accusing him of intentionally failing to enforce immigration laws.
The last big immigration reform bill passed in 1986, during the Reagan administration, and a smaller bill was signed into law four years later by George H.W.
Persons:
Biden, Alejandro Mayorkas, Reagan, George H.W, George H.W . Bush
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Democrats, Republicans
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Ukraine, George H.W .