Efforts to include immigration reform in a simple majority vote reconciliation bill won’t be allowed says the US Senate rules person…
No meaningful immigration reform bill will get support from Republican US Senator’s….
American immigration policy is the actions of each individual president ….
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It’s gonna stay that way….
Democrats and President Biden have been trying to attach as many bill to the Infrastructure legislation that can which only needs a simple majority vote in the US Senate thru a process called reconciliation ….
Democratic Majority Leader Schumer says he’ll try get the Senate parliamentarian to get around her decision…
The Senate parliamentarian on Sunday rejected Democrats’ push to include a pathway to legal status in their social spending plan, a blow to the party’s efforts to enact immigration reform.
In the decision, a copy of which was obtained by POLITICO, the parliamentarian determined that the Democrats’ proposal is “by any standard a broad, new immigration policy” and that the policy change “substantially outweighs the budgetary impact of that change.”
Democrats have vowed to pursue an alternative proposal to allow immigration provisions in their planned multitrillion-dollar party-line social spending bill should they disagree with the ruling from the nonpartisan Senate rules arbiter, and two of them immediately promised to pursue that in a Sunday night statement. But it’s unclear how new reasoning for immigration provisions with the same ultimate effect could win over the parliamentarian, meaning that the new ruling likely closes the path forward for providing legal status through Democrats-only legislation this Congress….
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Professional Responsibility has launched a formal investigation into Border Patrol agents after footage emerged showing them on horseback, menacingly using what appeared to be whips on migrants seeking asylum along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Department of Homeland Security, which said a full probe would help “define the appropriate disciplinary actions to be taken,” has also dispatched additional personnel to oversee future border patrol operations over what’s become a sprawling, makeshift encampment of Haitians in Del Rio, Texas, seeking entry in the United States….
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Biden IS also in a bad place on immigration….
The mass of thousands of Haitians at the U.S. southern border has put the Biden administration in the exact place it’s tried to avoid: knee deep in immigration politics.
In the past 24 hours, the White House has responded to images and videos of aggressive tactics used by Border Patrol agents to corral those migrants by supporting an internal investigation into the matter. What it hasn’t done, yet, is figure out a solution to the crowding and sanitary issues arising in what’s become a makeshift encampment — or stop its policy of deporting migrants upon arrival….
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Haitian deportees assaulted U.S. pilots and ICE agents on deportation flights arriving in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Tuesday, according to a report from NBC News.
NBC News reported the incident began after a flight of single adult men arrived on the tarmac, citiing a source familiar with internal reports….
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday passionately called on President Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to halt the deportations of thousands of Haitian migrants who are gathered in Del Rio, Texas….
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Abbott Creates ‘Steel Wall’ of Cars on Texas Border
“Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has sent a fleet of state-owned vehicles to line up for miles as a barricade along the border with Mexico, insisting the state was taking ‘unprecedented steps,’ as thousands of migrants still seek to cross into the United States,” the Washington Post reports.