Due to the negotiations between Democrats and the technical complications that plan C faces with the evaluation of the Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, it is possible that the debate on an immigrant protection
Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer (New York), did not want to confirm it, but acknowledged that everything depends on the negotiations that President Joe Biden have with Senator Joe Manchin (West Virginia) in endorsing the entire Buld Back Better (BBB – Rebuild Better) agenda, where it is included the immigration benefit.
“ The president and Senator Manchin are having several discussions and we are waiting for the result Schumer said Wednesday.
This Thursday, multiple reports indicate that Democrats will decide today if they leave the BBB agenda for January or maintain their own deadline before Christmas.
“It all depends on what the president tells us about his conversations with Joe Manchin,” confirmed a Senate source who knows
Even Senator Dick Durbin (Illinois), chairman of the Judicial Committee, hinted at Roll Call that hoped that some protection for immigrants would be approved in January of 2022.
“I am focused on that as one of my greater concerns in this Reconciliation law, ”he said.
The parliamentarian has been delayed with the decision on the protection of the deportation of undocumented immigrants, thus as Employment Authorization , because it reviews in parallel the other proposals that make up the $ 1 BBB bill. 75 trillions of dollars.
Democrats too have another priority: voting laws ion.
“As we continue to work to bring the Senate to a position where We can move forward with Build Back Better, Senate Democrats have spent the past few weeks engaged in a separate discussion about addressing another pressing priority: protecting the right to vote and safeguarding our elections “, Senator Schumer acknowledged in plenary session.
He added that he had a meeting with his colleagues, in order to advance the legislation with a view to the process of 2020, in the midst of the Republican advance in several states to modify voting rules.
“Republicans at the state level are approving the more egregious restrictions on voting rights that we have seen since segregation, ”warned Schumer. “They are doing it on a totally partisan basis.”
Democrats intend to pass the Voting Freedom Law and Voting Rights Promotion Law.