Democrats experienced another instructive flare-up in intra-party tensions last week, this time over a spending bill that did not include protections for DACA recipients.

Many Democrats supported the bill in order to avoid a government shutdown, planning to take up the task of negotiating DACA protections only weeks later in January. The delay was enough to rankle hardline liberal immigration activists.

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