Amnesty advocates are drafting a Plan B following the Sunday rejection of the wide-ranging amnesty-and-cheap-labor plan by the Senate’s debate referee.
“As we have been saying for weeks, we anticipate this would be a multi-step, iterative process with multiple bites at the apple,” said a statement from Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us lobby group for West Coast investors. The group has been funding many astroturf groups around the nation to persuade politicians and journalists that additional migration is popular.
If the decision survives the progressive backlash, it will prevent the Democrats from using their narrow, one-vote majority in the Senate to create a huge partisan amnesty that would have many economic, civic, and political consequences.
The FWD.us statement said:
We wanted to make you aware that Senate Leadership will present alternate immigration-related proposals for the Senate Parliamentarian’s consideration in the coming days, after the Parliamentarian stated her opposition to an initial iteration late Sunday.
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Congress has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to pass a pathway to citizenship for millions of immigrants currently living, working, and contributing to our families and communities across this country. This can and must be the year that Congress finally recognizes Dreamers, TPS holders, farmworkers, and immigrant essential workers as the Americans they already are.
The Plan B may be a scaled-down version of the amnesty push, which would have provided amnesty for at least 8 million migrants, accelerated the inflow of chain migrants, and lifted caps on the inflow of foreign graduates. The plan was excluded by the parliamentarian, or referee, from the planned $3.5 trillion budget bill because it is a broad policy issue, not a narrow budgetary adjustment.
The secret Plan B may include a push to replace the parliamentarian, or promote a narrower version of the Plan A.
However, Democrat Senators from small states may protect the parliamentarian. They have an incentive to protect the parliamentarian’s clout because they fear that the wealthy states may gain the power to rewrite the Senate’s rules in their favor.
The FWD.us group has close ties to the White House, and in recent weeks, administration officials have been repeating the group’s poll-testing talking points.
The FWD.us statement included responses from their allies to the parliamentarian’s rejection of their initial Plan A:
The White House
[Democratic Senate Majority Leader] Sen. [Chuck] Schumer:
“The American people understand that fixing our broken immigration system is a moral and economic imperative. America has always been that shining city on the hill that welcomes those pursuing the American Dream and our economy depends more than ever on immigrants. Despite putting their lives on the line during the pandemic and paying their fair share of taxes, they remain locked out of the federal assistance that served as a lifeline for so many families. We will continue fighting to pursue the best path forward to grant them the ability to obtain lawful status.”
For many years, a wide variety of pollsters have shown deep and broad opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates. This pocketbook opposition is multiracial , cross-sex , non-racist , class-based , bipartisan , rational , persistent , and recognizes the solidarity Americans owe to each other.
FWD.us allies have produced multiple reports claiming very small wage gains for Americans. Those claims are cited in a “50 economists ” letter and were debunked by Breitbart News in April.
However, donor-funded GOP leaders have downplayed the pocketbook impact of migration on Americans’ communities. Instead of trying to win worried swing voters by offering pocketbook gains from immigration reform, GOP leaders try to steer GOP base voters’ concerns towards subsidiary non-economic issues, such as migrant crime, the border wall, border chaos, and drug smuggling.
Democrats’ Plan B: Amnesty for Illegal Aliens Who Entered U.S. Before 2010 John Moore/Getty Images 3:37
Senate Democrats will propose another amnesty plan to include in their budget reconciliation package, one that would allow illegal aliens who entered the United States before 2010 to secure green cards and, eventually, naturalized American citizenship.
After Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough shot down a plan by Democrats to slip an amnesty for millions of illegal aliens into their filibuster-proof budget reconciliation package, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) says Senate Democrats’ next move is proposing an amnesty that would ensure green cards for millions of illegal aliens who entered the U.S. before 2010.
Young unaccompanied migrants, wait for their turn at the secondary processing station inside the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility. (DARIO LOPEZ-MILLS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images).
“There are a couple of options [regarding amnesty] … there are a couple of tiers that we can pursue, one of them would produce … an opportunity for legalization. Another one would produce an opportunity for a recognized status with then a pathway to legalization,” Menendez said Monday:
I personally prefer trying to get the parliamentarian to agree to a registry date change because we’re not changing the law , which was the essence of her arguments … we’re just updating a date. There’s a dramatic difference in that. [Emphasis added]
The registry date is the date that exists in the law in which people can adjust their status if they were here before that date. By updating the registry date, we would permit people to adjust their status to an antiquated date and that would create an opportunity for a very large universe to adjust their status in the United States and we think that updating the date … which is not changing the law … is a valid concern and has budgetary impacts that fall squarely on what reconciliation is all about. [Emphasis added]
In November 1986, President Ronald Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) into law which gave amnesty to nearly three million illegal aliens. As part of the Reagan amnesty, illegal aliens who could prove they had lived in the U.S. since January 1, 1972 could adjust status and secure a green card.
Since the Reagan amnesty, more than 73,000 illegal aliens have been able to adjust status, secure green cards, and eventually apply for naturalized American citizenship.
Senate Democrats now want to update that date from January 1, 1972 to January 1, 2010 so that illegal aliens who have lived in the U.S. before 2010 can apply for green cards. It is unclear how many illegal aliens would benefit from such an amnesty but in January 2010, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) estimated that nearly 11 million illegal aliens were residing in the U.S.
As Breitbart News reports , Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us lobby group for West Coast investors said Senate Democrats would be presenting “alternate immigration-related proposals for the Senate Parliamentarian’s consideration in the coming days.”
The latest amnesty plan comes directly from FWD.us, which in April published a detailed analysis as to how Senate Democrats could update the registry date in the IRCA to provide millions of illegal aliens with amnesty.
“The immigration registry process has been in place for nearly a century, and reflects our nation’s historical sense of fairness to allow undocumented immigrants who have lived in the country for a long time an opportunity to adjust to a legal status,” the FWD.us stated.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here .
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