The GOP’s most vulnerable senator up for re-election in 2018 is digging in on his support for Trump’s plan to use the fate of Dreamers as a political pawn in order to get funding to build a border wall—something Sen. Dean Heller says he has “always supported.” In a troubling interview with KLAS in Las Vegas, Heller confirmed again that he wouldn’t support a clean Dream Act unless a border wall came first.
For months, Heller has been dodging questions about his stance on the bipartisan Dream Act, even as recently as last week. In February, Heller voted in favor of President Trump’s divisive immigration framework, while voting against both of the bipartisan DACA compromises in the Senate and saying he “didn’t have time to meet with” the bipartisan group of senators working on a viable solution to protect Dreamers.