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Home Front: Politix

Democrats' House immigration bills will hit snag in the Senate

2021-03-23

[WashingtonExaminer] Senate Democrats say it may be difficult, if not impossible, to send a pair of House-passed amnesty bills to President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run....
President Joe Biden

’s desk as politicians restart a decadeslong debate over how to reform the nation’s immigration system.

House Democrats easily passed two measures on Thursday that would provide a pathway to citizenship for up to 4 million people now living here illegally.

Majority Leader the mealy-mouthed Steny StinkyHoyer
...Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi's second banana, or plaintain, or mango, or whatever he is. Number Two, anyway...
said Democrats plan to go even further in the coming months, with a broader amnesty bill proposed by Biden that would offer a means to obtain citizenship for all of the nation’s approximately 11 million illegal im~~migrants~~ colonists.

While House Democrats Thursday celebrated passing two legalization measures for farmworkers and Dreamers and planned their next big immigration bill, their counterparts across the Capitol were skeptical they can strike the kind of bipartisan deal that would be needed to pass similar legislation in the Senate, where 60 votes are necessary to bring a bill to the floor for debate.

Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat who leads the Judiciary Committee, plans to hold hearings soon on the House-passed measures, which would legalize so-called Dreamers who arrived illegally in the United States as children, as well as many of the nation’s migrant farms workers.

Durbin said he’s unsure if he can find bipartisan support to pass either of the two bills, never mind the much larger comprehensive package that would legalize 11 million people. Democrats control 50 votes and would need at least 10 GOP politicians to advance legislation due to the filibuster.

"I don't see a means of reaching it," Durbin told news hounds who asked about a comprehensive bill that would address all illegal im~~migrants~~ colonists. "I want it. I think we're much more likely to deal with discrete elements."

The Senate last passed a comprehensive immigration bill in 2013, when the chamber was under Democratic control. But the bill died in the House.

Some politicians are now eyeing those 2013 bipartisan as a guide to crafting a new proposal that can earn 60 votes. But shifting views on immigration in both parties could make it difficult.

The 2013 measure included border security and immigration reform provisions the liberal factions in Congress may be unwilling to accept, while Republicans are in no mood to vote for an amnesty measure while the southern border is experiencing a massive surge in illegal immigration.

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