Congress is scheduled to adjourn for a five-week recess two weeks from today, and prospects of doing anything about the crisis on the border with Mexico are growing slimmer by the hour.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, is determined to move legislation out of his chamber that would address the tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children who have illegally crossed the border in the hopes of being granted some form of indefinite amnesty to remain in the United States. But what House Republicans might pass this month now appears headed for a roadblock in the Democratic Senate.