Next week: Senate starts immigration debate

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Senators next week will take up the nearly impossible task of finding the votes to pass a bill that protects younger illegal immigrants from deportation while improving border security and reforming the nation’s immigration policies.

There is no guarantee Senate lawmakers can pass any immigration reform bill, given the partisan differences, but Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, fulfilling a promise he made to both parties last month, plans to give lawmakers a shot at it.

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