Good afternoon friends. Join me in this live session. We're going to discuss breaking news
involving the, um, Senate parliamentarian issue with respect to immigration reform and plan
B. If you're with me this afternoon, um, chime in, let me know how you're doing comment below
and, uh, tell me how you're doing. Okay. Thank you so much for being with me. I'm Latoya McBean
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call us at (516) 866-3900 for a consultation to see how we might be able to help you. So, um, as
I see that you're joining the broadcast. Um, thank you so much for being with me this afternoon. So,
uh, okay, so here's, what's going on, friends. Here's what's going on.
Um, I've been doing a number of shorts on YouTube recently. Just update in you quickly, uh, with,
you know, my, the 15 second updates about what's going on with respect to, uh, Capitol
hill news and the Senate parliamentarian issue and the plan B that Democrats, um, have for, um,
allowing many people to become legal in the United States. Okay. Uh, those who are here undocumented,
um, have been looking forward to amnesty. And so my shorts have been providing you guys with some
brief updates, so go back and watch those shorts from this over the past few days to get caught up
in essence friends, here's what's going on today. And my apologies for the quality, the sound may
not be superior, but just, just ignore that. But, um, what happened today is this, uh, S uh, Senator
Durbin indicated that the Democrats have pitched the parliamentarian with, um, plan B.
Okay. And I did a tick talk about this earlier today. Uh, if you're not following me on, um,
on Tik TOK, go ahead and follow me on Tik TOK in addition to, um, uh, Instagram. But this
is the tick talk that I did earlier today, uh, discussing this issue, the fact that the Senator
has, uh, told the media that they've met, that their, his staff, um, is meeting with,
um, with the parliamentarian about plan B. Okay. Now the question is, what exactly is this plan B
right? What is this plan B it's been kind of elusive, many of us, um, don't even understand
what's being, what are they talking about behind the scenes? What we do know from today's press
briefing with Senator Durbin is that update in the registry is certainly part of this plan B.
And let me just pull up the article here. And some of you have already indicated that,
oh, I've seen the article from the hill. Uh, ABC news also reported out on it. Let me just pull it
up briefly and go through a few points with you. Um, from the hill Democrats pitch parliamentarian
on immigration plan B and in this article and what Senator Durbin has told the press today.
And there's my apologies for a lot of these, uh, these ads skies, these ads are all over the hill,
but in essence, what the Senator has told, uh, uh, reporters today is the fact that they presented
a new CBO score and Eusebio score has been presented to the Senate parliamentarian for her
to consider the budgetary impact of the efforts that they want to do around immigration reform.
Uh, the registry update for certain undocumented immigrants and beneficiaries of humanitarian
parole programs was also part of the plan that was pitched today to the Senate parliamentarian.
However, guys, get this, and I'm going to jump back onto the screen here, get this the Senator
Senator Durbin when asked, well, what is the date in this registry? When is it going to
be updated to what year? What is that year? He said he basically doesn't remember.
He doesn't remember. So right now, as of this live session, I have absolutely no idea what year
the Democrats are pitching, um, to the Senate parliamentarian. And one of the big things that's
going on right now on the house side, as I've reported out to you, and as you may be reading in
the press, as well as the fact that there's really a showdown going on right now on the house side
among Democrats. Um, in essence, Progressive's, uh, have said to speaker Pelosi that we will not
support the infrastructure bill. Um, on Thursday, we will not vote for it unless there is a vote
first firstly, on the reconciliation plan, the 3.5 trillion reconciliation plan that,
um, that basically covers the build back better plan from, uh, president Biden.
This is a huge, huge problem for Polosi, as I indicated in one of my short huge problem, because
they, in order for reconciliation to really work Senate agreement is needed as well. Okay.
So for her to bring this bill to the floor and knowing that on the Senate side, they don't
have all the votes to support all of the ideas in build back, better plan. It would, it's basically
going to fail and Senator and speaker Pelosi has already indicated that she is not planning
to bring any bill to the floor that will fail. Okay, that's, that's her, that's her goal. I will
not bring something to the house floor that will fail, but, um, but now all of these negotiations
are going on behind the scenes with respect to the reconciliation bill. Um, as you may know, too,
with respect to the bill, it includes the immigration, um, changes that I
covered with you a few weeks ago. It does include that language to provide
amnesty to about 8 million people. But this is only a draft and speaker Pelosi has indicated that
that reconciliation bill that was voted out or approved or, um, by the budget committee on
Saturday, that is only a draft. It will change. Okay. And we know that on the Senate side, um,
the immigration plan is not something that the Senate side is fully on board with, uh, at this
point. So there's a lot of back in, uh, backdoor negotiations that's happening right now on Capitol
health to pull everything together. Okay. Thursday speaker Pelosi has committed to a Thursday vote
on the infrastructure bill, um, and we'll see how, how that plays out. Um, now let's see. So
again, friends today, Senator Durbin has, they've made their second pitch to the parliamentarian,
their plan B, which would be to upped from what we understand to update the registry, to change the
date that would allow people who have entered into the United States before that date to apply for a
lawful status in the country or a green card. We do not yet know the date because he cannot
remember the date and his staff from what I've been reading. They are not disclosing the date
either. So let's continue to follow these events carefully. And as soon as they break, um, I may
come before you again like this in another live session, or I may very well just do a shorts
or a tick talk or Instagram reel. Um, so make sure that you're following me on social media so that
you could see all of the updates as they come out. Also, there was an update that I did on Monday,
yesterday around DACA, go onto my TIG talk, see that update. It's a nice little video that tells
you that yesterday the government took steps to fortify DACA. It is not a permanent solution.
Only Congress can offer a permanent solution or fixed to DACA.
What this effort does is it puts DACA into our regulations through rulemaking,
which is a very complex lengthy process to add the program to our regulations. And in order for
future administrations or the courts to challenge DACA, they would have to roll back the regulations
and they have to justify why they want to roll it back. And it's very lengthy and complex. So those
are the steps yesterday that our government took when they introduced these proposed rules to add
DACA to our regulations. Um, but just know that DACA, it's the S it's still the same structure.
Nothing has really changed with respect to DACA at all, through what they've done yesterday.
It is still, you must be under 16 and you must meet all of those other criteria in order to be
eligible for DACA. And they have not yet opened it up for again for new, um, applicants.
Okay. So keep that part in mind. And in fact, they went as far yesterday, and the regulations
to point out that documented dreamers are not eligible for DACA. So that was kind of an interest
in a thing that they did yesterday, that some of us are wondering, why did they,
you know, why are they doing this? Why did they reinforce that point? Um, okay. So those are the,
the biggest updates, um, around immigration reform, uh, that I wanted to point out to you
on this very short broadcast. Thank you so much for being with me this afternoon,
share this video with other people on WhatsApp, uh, Facebook, social media, and, um, and stay
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And, um, yeah, the registry date. Once I see that questions are coming in about the registry date,
once that registry date becomes available friends, I will be sure to let you guys know because it
really, um, it really will determine the number of people who this could help keep in mind.
Also, before I go, I just want to add this little point here. My 2 cents about this, keep in mind
that the Democrats, um, still have the power to, um, either overrule or overturn
the decision of the parliamentarian from last week. Okay. About the broader policies,
keep in mind that they can do that. They have that power. They could do that as whenever they
could do that. Uh, and they could also fire her Republicans have done that in the past.
So they have additional tools, but the question is, um, what are they going to use
at this time to bring change to a lot of people who are really looking for these changes? That's
really the question, guys. I hope you found this helpful, give it a thumbs up a like,
and I will see you in the next one. Thanks so much for being with me today. Bye bye.