Border Deal’s Demise Makes Future Immigration Talks Even Harder

The rapid collapse of a painstakingly negotiated Senate border deal has lawmakers and advocates fretting about prospects for any future immigration talks and scrambling to assess whether any of it can be salvaged.

Sens. James Lankford (R-Okla.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) spent the past four months tackling one of the most fraught areas of US domestic policy and landed on a complex compromise that aimed to bolster border enforcement and speed up asylum reviews.

It’s one of the most conservative bipartisan immigration deals ever reached on Capitol Hill, but former President Donald Trump and GOP lawmakers torpedoed ...