Why are Republicans so willing to deal on taxes and so unwilling to deal on immigration? The answer is that the Republican Party has an informal division between issues that are intended to build political capital and those that are intended to spend political capital.
The immigration deal, by contrast, has no give-and-take. It's a pure enforcement bill, with none of the traditional protections for Dreamers or increases in legal skilled immigration that liberals have.
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