A debate over ICE detention, immigration enforcement, and what citizenship should mean — bad news for anyone hoping the left and right find common ground soon.

• Detainees at Delaney Hall in New Jersey are on hunger strike, demanding their release and to meet the governor, who has sued the facility over poor conditions and blocked health inspectors.
• The fight has become a proxy war over a bigger question: who gets to be a citizen, and what citizens owe each other.
• Both sides agree Biden let in too many migrants and that the border needs to be controlled, but they split hard on how to handle the millions already here.
• One side wants tough street-level detention; the other says go after employers who hire illegal workers instead, which would push people to leave on their own.
• A possible compromise floated: deport violent criminals, close the border, and give work permits or a path to citizenship for everyone else who followed the rules.

Outlook: No deal is close — without agreement on sanctuary cities and enforcement style, the immigration fight likely stays a two-year political seesaw.