WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In agreeing on Monday to end a three-day U.S. government shutdown, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer had to make a tough decision to bridge a divide within his own party over immigration, an issue on which Americans are deeply conflicted, according to new Reuters/Ipsos polling data.
Democratic leftists wanted Schumer to drive a harder bargain on helping the "Dreamers," young people brought to the United States illegally as children who face the threat of deportation under an order issued last year by Republican President Donald Trump.