Republicans in the House passed a $698 million border funding bill that would speed deportation of illegal immigrant children and authorize funds for the deployment of National Guard troops at the border. The Senate adjourned for the summer recess without passing a much larger $2.7 billion border funding bill that would have allowed the illegal children to stay until their asylum requests were heard. Republican leadership was able to convince most of the holdout conservatives to vote for the bill by also allowing a vote on a bill that would prevent President Obama from expanmding his deferred deportation executive order allowing some DREAMers to remain in the US. That measure also passed. The Hill: Republicans during Friday’s debate repeatedly noted that they were in town legislating while the Democratic-run Senate had already left for the recess. The Senate failed to advance a larger $2.7 billion border bill on Thursday. Republicans urged the Senate to come...(Read Full Post)