Ruben Navarrette: It's not clear that anyone in the White House actually thought that they were going to be able to get cuts to legal immigration. He says by shifting the debate to legal immigration, Trump is making it much harder for Congress to pass a solution for DACA. "You better elect more Republicans, folks, or it'll never happen," he adds.
Today, the United States Supreme Court denied a request from the Trump administration to expedite a decision on DACA. This keeps the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program on life support for a few more months, but also keeps its 690,000 recipients in limbo: Do they stay or do they go? Congress still hasn’t been able to pass a vote on DACA. Vox’s Dara Lind and Matthew Yglesias say that’s because Trump has moved the conversation into unfamiliar territory: from illegal immigration to legal immigration.
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