GOP plans Wednesday vote on faltering immigration bill

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House Republican leaders will try again Wednesday to pass a broad immigration reform bill, despite lingering opposition from conservatives who favor a tougher bill, and public predictions that the vote will fail.

If the bill goes down, lawmakers will be under pressure to take up a narrow measure that would allow children to remain with adults detained for illegally crossing the southern border, an issue that both Republicans and Democrats want to solve urgently.

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