U.S. Democratic lawmakers are gearing up to fight President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown when in control of Congress next year, targeting ICE tactics and expanding paths to legal status despite limits on how much they can achieve.
Democrats handily won control of both chambers of Congress last week, fueled in part by voters’ dissatisfaction with Trump’s aggressive arrest and deportation campaign. But lawmakers from both parties expect Stephen Miller, the architect of that campaign and Trump’s new chief of staff, to go on driving immigration policy.
House and Senate staffers said?they expect the president to veto any legislation that would curb immigration enforcement or expand pathways to legal residency and citizenship.
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