Senate Set to Join Immigration Fight

Government Executive: Senate Republicans will start their attack on President Obama's immigration orders as early as next week, leaders announced Tuesday.

With Republicans in both chambers unsure how far to push against Obama's executive action to defer deportations for undocumented young adults and parents of legal U.S. residents, the Senate will take up a House-passed funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security—with controversial immigration provisions attached—as soon as it wraps up its fourth week on the Keystone XL pipeline, GOP leaders said.

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