We, and third parties, use cookies and other electronic tools to enhance your experience, analyze site usage, and deliver advertisements tailored to your interests. “But we are having conversations with all of the advocacy groups to make sure we’re on the same page as to what the next option we explore is,” Menendez told Bloomberg Government in a hallway interview Tuesday. Reagan-Era Legal Immigration Path Eyed as Option for Democrats Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) said the registry measure is “our preferred option.” Senate Democrats are floating back-up proposals with the parliamentarian, including an update to the immigration registry cutoff date, Majority Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.) said.

“As of right now, all of our eggs, all of our effort is in the reconciliation process,” Olavarria said. Under budget reconciliation, which requires all provisions to relate to government spending, legislation can pass in the Senate on a simple majority. as children, essential workers, and other immigrants didn’t comport with the chamber’s rules for the partisan legislative process.ĭemocrats’ Plan for Immigration Overhaul in Biden Agenda Blocked She didn’t provide details about the various Plan B and Plan C options in consideration but said White House officials and lawmakers are looking at “any and every possibility.”ĭemocrats are scrambling to determine how to advance immigration measures after the Senate parliamentarian said a proposal to legalize undocumented residents brought to the U.S. Olavarria discussed the talks with Democrats in Congress Tuesday at an immigration policy conference. “If not that, then other options that don’t provide permanent residence but do provide employment authorization and protection from removal for various categories” of people are on the table, said Esther Olavarria, deputy director for immigration at the White House’s Domestic Policy Council. to apply for green cards and gain protection from deportation.ĭemocrats Offer ‘Plan B’ Immigration Overhaul for Economic Plan

Senate leaders, strategizing after a Senate rules official last week rejected their initial proposal to offer a broad legalization path for millions of immigrants, are already looking at updating a registry provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act to allow some foreigners in the U.S.

Democrats are weighing substitute immigration measures that don’t offer permanent residence in a sweeping social spending package if their latest preferred back-up plan falls short.

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