Immigration Dealmaker Surveys Wreckage After Border Bill’s Crash

Sen. Chris Murphy is on an outrage tour after Senate Republicans killed a bipartisan border deal he spent months helping to negotiate at the GOP’s behest.

You could find the Connecticut Democrat on the Senate floor this week, bewildered at how Republicans could summarily reject the careful immigration compromise within hours of its release. Or in the Senate subway, asking a throng of reporters how he could ever trust Republicans again. Or on cable news shows, decrying the GOP’s allegiance to former President Donald Trump.

Murphy and his negotiating partners, James Lankford (R-Okla.), and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.), unveiled their long-awaited ...