How will the standoff over funding President Trump’s proposed border wall end? Possibly the same way previous immigration impasses have ended: with a flood of money, celebration of whiz-bang technology, and little new in the way of actual physical barriers to stop illegal border crossings.

The latest clues come from Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the four-term Democratic congressman from New York who will become chair of the House Democratic Caucus starting Thursday.

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