Partisan splits immigration policy. The Wall Street Journal reports that a political log jam over the southern U.S. border has once again prevented Congress from making changes to the immigration system, with prospects for next year only growing dimmer. Take the border fence idea. Forty-eight percent oppose the fence. Overall, people oppose that proposal by a healthy 60 percent to 37 percent. Democrats are against changing the 14th Amendment, which guarantees “birthright citizenship,” 75 percent to 23 percent. However, 53 percent of Republicans favor repealing the amendment; 44 percent are opposed. It should be mentioned that Trump says changing the law wouldn’t require amending the Constitution.