WASHINGTON _ The conservative House Freedom Caucus is pushing hard for an immigration bill despised by many advocates for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals participants _ an effort that has a chance of getting a House vote as soon as next week.
If that vote occurs, it would make it far more difficult for DACA backers to get votes on legislation they've been seeking.
The conservative bill, sponsored by powerful House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., does not provide a special path to citizenship for "Dreamers." Instead it gives a three-year renewable legal status to people who entered the country illegally as minors.
