US Senate Democrats help advance Republican bill on migrants...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Many of the Democrats who supported the bill hailed from states that Trump won in the November, including Senators Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff of Georgia.
56% : Leading Democrats are expected to insist on amendments to achieve broader immigration reforms.
51% : A December Reuters/Ipsos poll found that Americans ranked immigration as the top issue they wanted Trump to address in his first 100 days in office, with respondents overall favoring Republicans' approach to the issue over Democrats' by 42%-22%.
38% : But the qualified Democratic support of the bill, with some members saying they were ready to open debate on it but not necessarily in support of passing it, is an illustration of the effect Trump has had in focusing Americans' attention on the subject.
34% : Ahead of the vote, Republican Senator Katie Britt argued if Riley's killer was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after his arrest for shoplifting -- as this new bill would ensure -- Riley's family would be celebrating her 23rd birthday on Friday, Jan. 10, instead of the first anniversary of her murder.
17% : Trump has used harsh terms when describing immigrants in the United States illegally or awaiting asylum hearings, calling them "animals" when talking about alleged criminal acts.

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