WASHINGTON _ Immigration issues still starkly divide Republicans on Capitol Hill _ but the powerful outside groups that fund GOP campaigns are united in a push to give permanent legal status to young undocumented immigrants.
A network of groups funded by the billionaire Koch brothers _ which has in the past funded far-right candidates _ and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are behind a Republican plan to partner with Democrats to give DACA recipients a path to permanent residency.
Even though that proposal has not been publicly embraced by GOP leaders on Capitol Hill, a super PAC aligned with House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is actively defending the plan's Republican leaders back home in their districts.
