The only way this passes the Senate is if they nuke the filibuster or 10 Republicans cross over
Biden to propose 8-year citizenship path for immigrants
President-elect Joe Biden plans to unveil a sweeping immigration bill on Day One of his administration, hoping to provide an eight-year path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million people living in the U.S. without legal status, a massive reversal from the Trump administration’s harsh immigration policies.
The legislation puts Biden on track to deliver on a major campaign promise important to Latino voters and other immigrant communities after four years of President Donald Trump’s restrictive policies and mass deportations. It provides one of the fastest pathways to citizenship for those living without legal status of any measure in recent years, but it fails to include the traditional trade-off of enhanced border security favored by many Republicans, making passage in a narrowly divided Congress in doubt.
Expected to run hundreds of pages, the bill is set to be introduced after Biden takes the oath of office Wednesday, according to a person familiar with the legislation and granted anonymity to discuss it.
As a candidate, Biden called Trump’s actions on immigration an “unrelenting assault†on American values and said he would “undo the damage†while continuing to maintain border enforcement.
In other words, border enforcement will become very lax, and the Biden admin will incent more illegals to come.
Under the legislation, those living in the U.S. as of Jan. 1, 2021, without legal status would have a five-year path to temporary legal status, or a green card, if they pass background checks, pay taxes and fulfill other basic requirements. From there, it’s a three-year path to naturalization, if they decide to pursue citizenship.
As they say, the devil is in the details, and I’d like to see what the full “basic requirements” are. Further, what’s this temporary legal status? Does that mean they can only stay a short period, and then have to leave? We know in practice that would simply mean them not being able to be deported, and then eventual amnesty. Will the illegals be required to do all the same things and pay all the same money as those going through the usual naturalization process? Will all the required money and taxes be waived?
For some immigrants, the process would be quicker. So-called Dreamers, the young people who arrived in the U.S. illegally as children, as well as agricultural workers and people under temporary protective status could qualify more immediately for green cards if they are working, are in school or meet other requirements.
The interesting thing is that the pro-illegal immigration crowd will caterwaul that all these requirements for illegals is too burdensome and takes too long and they should just be given amnesty, so, China Joe will be getting it from his own base.
For example, it does not include a robust border security element, but rather calls for coming up with strategies. Nor does it create any new guest worker or other visa programs.
Surprise! There will be no actual action to reduce illegal immigration.
Good for President-elect Biden for listening to the will of the people and opposing the hatred of America’s far-right.
Mr Biden will be inaugurated soon.
TEACH uses his frequent “In other words…” followed by his own fantasies/feelings/beliefs, rather than reporting the truth.
TEACH types: “In other words, border enforcement will become very lax, and the Biden admin will incent more illegals to come.”
Mr Biden is very unlikely to rip babies from the arms of their mothers, the two never to be rejoined. Border enforcement will continue just without the racist rhetoric of trump and his supporters.
The hate and bigotry that sustains America’s right-wing will be back-burnered for at least 4 years, thank the gods.
The only racist rhetoric about the border is promoted by you fascists on the left. You want a fence around the Capitol but not at the border. Well, do fences work or not?
Everything with you fascists is based on race or sex. BTW, Hussein did a fair amount of baby ripping and caging himself. Was he racist?
You hateful fanatic fascists see a white supremacist and a racist everywhere you look. You’re all fukin crazy about race. Yet the only real racists I know are blacks and leftists.
Why is it you can’t admit you’re a racist but call everyone else one?
A message from a Red to Elwood:
“[T]he useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when they get disillusioned, they become the worst enemies. That’s why my KGB instructors specifically made the point: never bother with leftists. Forget about these political prostitutes. Aim higher. […] They serve a purpose only at the stage of destabilization of a nation. For example, your leftists in the United States: all these professors and all these beautiful civil rights defenders. They are instrumental in the process of the subversion only to destabilize a nation. When their job is completed, they are not needed any more. They know too much. Some of them, when they get disillusioned, when they see that Marxist-Leninists come to power—obviously they get offended—they think that they will come to power. That will never happen, of course. They will be lined up against the wall and shot.â€
― Yuri Bezmenov
Kye, we hope you eventually return to being an American in every sense now that Mr Trump is no longer President.
You’re intelligent, but blinded by your hatred and bigotries. We can only hope you recover and enjoy a long, fruitful and happy life.
Speak to us of unity
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocb-S26BdRA
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Kye that’s it ? That is the best you got ?
You are comparing that to an attack on Congress that included beating police officers with fire extinguishers?
With a mob hunting Pelosi and Pence while carrying flex cuffs ? And saying they were going to kill them ? A direct attack in the American government ? By people who thought they were entitled to change election results which were so significantly false that NO court either state or Federal found their arguments significant in any way ?
Kye moderates have taken back political control of USA politics
There were 300,000 people there. If it were an “attack on Congress” or a “direct attack on the American government” those Congresscritters would be dead.
Your constant hyperbole and exaggeration notwithstanding, healing our country NOT continuing the anti Trump bullshit should be our priority.
You guys won. Trump is gone. Or are you going to beat the anti Trump drum until you finally get the civil war you seem to so desperately want?
I think your brains may have been totally and permanently toasted that a regular American and not a Swamp Creature actually got elected. But you stamped your feet for five years, censored and lied about Trump and us are white supremacists, racists and drink babies blood for lunch.
Are you going to continue the bullshit for ever? Just call it post Trump derangement syndrome (PTDS)and get free medical care for it.
You won. Stop your whining already!!
Or are you planning to destroy 75 million people whose politics you disagree with?
The purge begins: Are you now or have you ever been a Trump supporter or voter?
John-so now you’re worried about police officers? That’s good-but where were you when about 700 of them were injured in left wing BLM riots that are still going on today? And it’s not true that “no court found their arguments wrong†because no court looked at the arguments, they were dismissed for “standingâ€
Now let’s take a look at real terrorist action against the US government-the bombing of the Capital in 1983 by the far left. Clinton later pardoned 2 of the ringleaders. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1980s-far-left-female-led-domestic-terrorism-group-bombed-us-capitol-180973904/
This is no surprise; he has promised this all along.
President Clinton commuted the sentences (not a pardon) of Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans after each had served 16 years in prison. Neither were convicted of the bombing.
It’s true that the bombing WAS an act of left-wing domestic terrorism. In fact there was a sizeable contingent of extremist left wing groups in the 60s-70s-80s, originally opponents of the draft and Vietnam “War”. These terrorist attacks were NOT incited nor supported by the Presidents at the time.
The Capital bombing happened 38 years ago
No one was killed
3 people were convicted and sentenced to long prison terms
Should all who participated in any way also be Jailed for murder