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Senate Democrats will not be secretly adding amnesty for millions of illegal aliens into an upcoming reconciliation package.
Senate Democrats and Republicans are currently negotiating a reconciliation package. This package is a filibuster-proof budget that only needs majority support to pass.
Senator Dick Durban (D-IL) said that amnesty for illegal aliens will not make it into the final deal.
The admission from Durbin comes after Senate Democrats repeatedly failed last year to slip amnesty for illegals into another budget reconciliation package.
Last month, Durbin said that he and Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) were in talks about an amnesty deal.
Supporters of it admit that time is running out to get the legislation through Congress before the recess in August.
The ‘plan C” from last year would have given amnesty to seven million illegal aliens and would have cost $3.5 trillion.
The Center for American Progress, a left-wing think tank, analyzed the plan.
If a parole provision were written to include anyone who entered the United States before January 1, 2011, it would benefit up to 7.1 million undocumented immigrants across the country.
On its face, granting parole falls far short of giving people permanent residency and a new pathway to citizenship. Nonetheless, for the up to 7.1 million undocumented immigrants who could qualify — the vast majority of whom have never had status in the past — having a durable, long-term protection would be a positive change. And for people with DACA or TPS who have had to live their lives 18 months to two years at a time, having a longer status could bring additional relief. Nonetheless, the fight will continue to achieve a full pathway to citizenship for all undocumented immigrants. As senators pursue all avenues to grant relief to undocumented immigrants, parole is an important policy consideration that should pass parliamentary muster.
Breitbart reported:
The bulk of illegal aliens who would benefit from the parole-style amnesty reside in California, about 1.6 million, as well as another 1.3 million in Texas, 442,000 in Florida, and 435,000 in New York.
For illegal aliens given parole who have American citizen relatives or family members on green cards, under the Democrat plan, they would be allowed to apply for green cards thanks to the nation’s chain migration policy.
Chain migration allows an unlimited number of foreign nationals to get green cards so long as they have citizen or green card-holder relatives living in the U.S. Five years of chain migration adds more people to the U.S. than one year of American births.
Since the Senate plan is likely to fail, Hosue Democrats are also trying to introduce a daily “rolling” amnesty plan.
The plan would give green cards to millions of illegal immigrants every year by changing a little-known registry date in federal immigration law.
That plan is likely to fail, as well.
