A Senate Democrat leading the party’s efforts to pass an immigration bill that would allow millions of illegal immigrants to get on an 8-year pathway to citizenship cast serious doubt on the likelihood of the proposal passing. Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the chamber’s second-ranking Democrat, declared that he doesn’t believe there is enough backing in Congress to pass the aggressive bill, one of the issues that President Joe Biden campaigned on. “I don’t see a means of reaching that,” Durbin said on Monday. “I want it. I think we are much more likely to deal with discrete elements [of such a plan].” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has been insisting on dealing with the issues involved with the inpouring of children and families at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to Durbin, and this would make it more difficult to deal even with the individual aspects of immigration law changes. “When we …
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