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Republicans Are Lost on Immigration

Mixed directives from Trump have left Republicans yet another obstacle in their path to immigration reform.
Source: Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg via Getty

Updated on June 20 at 5:34 p.m.

To be a House Republican leader in 2018 is to accept that every directive from President Donald Trump comes with an unspoken disclaimer: subject to change without notice.

On Tuesday evening, lawmakers spilled out of a closed-door meeting in which the president maintained that they—and they alone—were responsible for solving the issue of family separations at the border, a result of the administration’s “zero tolerance” policy toward illegal border crossings. By late

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