It never really mattered how much immigrant rights activists were willing to concede in order to reach a compromise on comprehensive immigration reform. If the deal included any kind of legalization path for the 12 million illegal immigrants already in this country, the anti-immigrant Republicans were always going to oppose it.

Yet the Democrats kept making concessions, to the point that they finally agreed to a "compromise" that is far to the right of the immigration reform ...

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