Senate talks on immigration reform have been misrepresented as either side negotiating over its policy preferences. In actuality, Republicans have held Ukraine aid hostage and demanded that the Democrats acquiesce to increasingly unhinged restrictions, rejecting offers that they themselves would have pushed just a few years ago. There are no liberal or pro-immigrant policy prescriptions even on the table — not regularization for DACA recipients, not expansions of case management or other services for asylum seekers, not even reformulations of the work visa and residency processes, which are br…