Schumer and Pelosi-Trump’s Immigration Wild Cards?

President of the United States Donald J. Trump delivers the keynote address during the National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service in Washington, D.C., May 15, 2017. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Photo by Glenn Fawcett

On the eve of Mr. Trump’s first State of the Union, the WSJ’s William McGurn asks an interesting what-if question:

What if Mr. Trump looked up at the gallery full of Dreamers during his address and said, “I have offered a good-faith compromise that would not only resolve your place in America but open to you the precious gift of American citizenship. All I ask is that Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi meet me halfway.”

(As) trying as Mr. Trump must be, even worse for (Chuck) Schumer is the split in his own party. It might roughly be characterized as between those looking at 2018 and those looking to 2020. 

In the 2018 midterms, Democrats will be defending 26 Senate seats—10 of them in states Mr. Trump carried. Most of these Democrats were irritated by how Mr. Schumer’s stand opened them up to accusations (and the inevitable attack ads) that they’re willing to shut down the government to protect illegal immigrants. So upset were these Democrats by Mr. Schumer’s uncompromising stand that before the weekend was out they had abandoned him for a deal with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to reopen the government.

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