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Senate immigration funding fight is this era’s 1986 Tax Reform Act—a messy compromise that will haunt both parties for decades. As lawmakers scramble to jam billions into the reconciliation bill, historians see eerie parallels to the last time Congress tried to solve the border crisis by throwing money at enforcement while ignoring root causes. The result back then? A surge in undocumented migration and political fallout that still echoes today. Now, with $20 billion on the table for walls, drones, and deportation tech, the same pattern is repeating: short-term wins, long-term chaos. Will the GOP’s grand bargain become today’s IRA—a landmark that future voters either praise or curse?

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Senate immigration funding fight is this era’s 1986 Tax Reform Act—a messy compromise that will haunt both parties for decades. As lawmakers scramble to jam billions into the reconciliation bill, historians see eerie parallels to the last time Congress tried to solve the border crisis by throwing money at enforcement while ignoring root causes. The result back then? A surge in undocumented migration and political fallout that still echoes today. Now, with $20 billion on the table for walls, drones, and deportation tech, the same pattern is repeating: short-term wins, long-term chaos. Will the GOP’s grand bargain become today’s IRA—a landmark that future voters either praise or curse?