Article snippet: MORE’s inflammatory remarks against immigrants from a host of developing-world nations have sparked outrage amid talks on the fate of Dreamers just as lawmakers from both parties were claiming progress on a hard-fought deal. But supporters of the immigration package say the deeper threat to an agreement is not the president, but the conservatives in both the White House and Congress fighting to kill the deal before it can pick up steam –– an effort they’re calling “the Stephen Miller ambush,” referencing a top White House aide. The leading negotiators on an immigration package — Sens. MORE (D-Ill.) — were invited to the White House Thursday to huddle with Trump on their emerging agreement to combine Dreamer protections with tougher border security and new restrictions on immigration. They were reportedly surprised to find a handful of Republican lawmakers joining the meeting, including Sens. MORE (R-Va.), all immigration hard-liners who are opposed to the Graham-Durbin framework, which they deem too soft on enforcement. “Graham and Durbin expect to have a meeting, they show up and there’s this anti-immigrant cast of characters there. And that was obviously designed by Stephen Miller to try to kill the deal,” said a senior Democratic aide. There’s no love lost between immigration reform advocates and Miller, a senior advisor to Trump long known for his tough approach to immigration policy. As an aide to former Sen. MORE (R-Ala.), now Trump’s Attorney General, Mil... Link to the full article to read more