Senate MP rejects latest plan to protect undocumented immigrants

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Senate MP Elizabeth MacDonough rejected Thursday the most recent plan to include immigration reform that would benefit millions of immigrants in the United States, and that was presented by Democrats to be included in their social spending bill.

The MP had been delayed in her decision on the protection to be would grant millions of undocumented immigrants in the United States, a provision that would expand work permits and provide temporary protection against deportation for certain undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States before January 2011.

The parliamentarian indicated in her ruling that the plan presented did not comply with the House regulations. She wrote that the provision would create a new class of approximately 6.5 million eligible people, “almost the same number of people as the two previous plans.” And he noted that “these are substantial policy changes with long-lasting effects such as those we considered above and that exceed the budgetary impact.”

The House of Representatives proposal came after the Senate parliamentarian previously ruled that the Democrats couldn’t include a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants in their social spending bill.

Then also rejected a second Democratic proposal to change the date of a decades-old registration law to give more undocumented immigrants a path. towards legal status.

And finally on Thursday, the parliamentarian has rejected the call Plan C, that offered the viability of granting a protection against deportation of undocumented persons or ‘parole’ , Employment Authorization by 10 years, travel permits and the possibility of applying for a REAL ID., which could benefit some 6.5 million immigrants residing in the United States.

Reactions do not take long

In a post-ruling statement, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Bob Menendez (DN.J.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) And Ben Ray Lujá n (DN.M.), said be “in total disagreement” with the decision of the parliamentarian and promised to “seek all means to achieve a path to citizenship” in the bill on social spending.

The Coalition for Human Rights of the s Immigrants (CHIRLA), California’s largest immigrant rights organization, urged Senate Democrats Thursday to ignore the MP’s uncompromising views on immigration relief and to re-include permanent residence in the immigration provisions of the Build Back Better Act , thus recognizing that society needs immigrants.

While immigration reform advocates have lobbied for the Senate to overturn or disregard the MP’s rulings, Democrats are unlikely to do so , because they are using the so-called reconciliation process to move their social spending bill through the Senate, allowing them to evade Republican obstructionism.

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