The long-heralded compromise proposal on immigration between Sens. James Lankford (R-OK), Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) finally became public on a Sunday. And it went over just about as well as a lead balloon. 

Early reports threw up a lot of red flags for conservatives. Rather than securing the southern border by eliminating the flow of migrants, it was said that the bill allowed several thousand per day to enter, where their asylum claims would be quickly processed. Proponents of the bill assured skeptics that this was not at all true, but it turned out to be exactly the case. On top of that, the bill included all manner of items that made it effectively a no-go for conservatives: moving the judicial process to the federal court in Washington, D.C., billions of dollars to be dished out, in part to the very nongovernmental organizations that have facilitated the crisis, and enough executive discretion for President Joe Biden to alter the contours of southern immigration, which had caused the problem in the first place.