Hey friends, if you're interested in the latest immigration news,
watch this video in this one or in this live session, we're going to talk about the
budget, uh, reconciliation. The plan was revealed today. Today, the Democrats, um, published what,
um, they are calling the budget, the 20, 22 budget resolution. So if you're out there today and you'd
like to discuss this with me, come on and join in and, uh, let's do it. And as you're coming on,
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super nice. All right. So let's talk about this guys today. The Democrats,
um, the, the Democrats revealed their, but a budget resolution. And over the past few months,
you know, that we've been talking a lot about, well, what are they going to do?
And, uh, firstly is immigration going to be part of anything that they do? And so today they did
reveal the plan. This is their 3.5 trillion trillion plan. Um, it's very significant.
It's very big. It includes things, uh, touching on climate change, childcare, healthcare laws,
and some other things, and as well as immigration. Okay. And it increases taxes as well, which,
you know, I'm not going to comment on that one publicly, but anyway, it does a number of things
does a number of things, but more pointedly and for your purposes, um, the immigration
part of things is really interesting. And I want us to take a look at it and as
you're coming on, I see a lot of you coming on now. Thank you so much for joining me in
this live session from Chicago and from all over Georgia and in other places now. Um, so this is,
this is the budget, um, the resolution, okay. That was introduced today, and it's really not easy
to read. Okay. And we're not going to go through this. It's 92 pages. We're not going to go through
it. But what we will touch on is the instructions that the Senate democratic leadership, uh,
sent on to the individual committees, instructing them to draft legislation. But before I do that,
let's, um, let me show you this, uh, just briefly this, um, article from the hill today,
budget package includes plan for pathway to citizenship green cards for millions. Okay.
And so this is actually a very, very big deal. Now, what, what plan is included in this? What are
they going to do? Well, look at the instructions here. The instructions to democratic senators,
uh, sent out today, says this on July 13th, 2021, the Senate budget committee with the support of
leadership tumor and president Biden announced a framework agreement of 3.5 trillion in fiscal
year, 2022 budget reconciliation instructions to enact the build back better agenda. Okay.
The build back better agenda. Their agreement calls for the 3.5 trillion and long-term
investments to be fully offset by a combination of new tax revenues, guys, health care savings,
and long-term economic, uh, economic growth. In addition, the agreement would prohibit new taxes
on families making less than 400,000 per year and on small businesses and family farms. Now we're
not going to read all of this. Let's jump to the section, the instructions on, um, to the Senate
judiciary committee on, uh, immigration. Now, part of this is a heritage includes 107
billion. Okay. 107 billion for immigration purposes. And the three bullets here don't
really tell us much. The first bullet says, um, well it says the judiciary committee receives an
instruction of 107 billion for what lawful permanent status for qualified immigrants
investments in smart and effective border security measures and community
violence intervention initiative. Okay. Incredibly vague, incredibly vague, but again,
lawful permanent status for qualified immigrants and investments in border security measures and
community violence, intervention, um, initiative. Now, uh, if you've been meeting with me, um, over
the past few months, one of the things that you may have heard me say in some consultations
is that we won't know specifically who budget reconciliation would help if they do end up
doing this right. We don't know yet. Um, all we know is that they're targeting generally,
they're targeting dreamers, they're targeting TPS holders, temporary protected status holders.
There are targeted farm workers and essential workers. That's really it. We don't know how many,
yeah. We hear 10 million. Some days we hear 11 million than other times. We hear a nice say, oh,
they're going to whittle it down. They're going to make it something really small. We don't know yet.
What, what will happen next is crucial to us get an understanding about who this will really help,
um, because what's going to happen next is that the committees are instructed to create
the legislation that will tell us how all of this will work. And so this budget resolution it's, uh,
directing, um, a dozen committees on the Senate side and 13 committees. And on the house side
to draft this package, um, again, only a simple majority vote is needed to make this happen. And
so the Democrats are looking to obviously do this. They will be doing this entirely on their own.
They cannot afford to lose a single Democrat support on the Senate side, but on the house side,
they could afford to lose about three that's what I've been hearing. And then the deadline.
Now the deadline for this, for the committees to draft the legislation is September 15th.
Because again, remember the fiscal year begins October 1st. So they've got to get this done very,
very quickly over the next several weeks after the legislature, after the committees, uh, draft the
legislation, then the, uh, bills, all of the bills will be bundled together until some big into one
big package for debate okay. On the floor. And then after that happens, obviously some other
procedural stuff will happen in between, but after that happens, they're going to vote out on this.
And again, this is, um, this is entirely driven by Senate Democrats, house Democrats for the large,
for the most part supported as well on the leadership side,
um, president Biden supports it. Uh, he kind of equivocated at one point,
but then he came back and said, okay, I support this. And he does obviously. And so that's where
we're at. We're at the point now where we see for ourself, the instruction to the committee
to draft legislation that would provide lawful permanent status to certain qualified immigrants.
And we're speculating that they're farm workers, essential workers, um, TPS holder, TPS holders,
and dreamers. It's been a long day. I've been in meetings all day. Um, okay. So watch for,
um, watch over the next several weeks, what they're going to do, uh, as well as the Senate
parliamentarian weighing in of course, very critical to this process. And then
September 15th is that deadline for the committees to get the legislation out. So,
um, so that's just a few weeks. So in any event, guys, um, I wanted to jump back on here
and let you guys know what's going on. You may have read it in the news as well,
but this is where things are right now with respect to the immigration part of it. Now,
one thing I will say, just as a reminder, is that through the reconciliation process, they
are not allowed to reform the laws. They're not allowed to change things. Okay. They're not to do
that. They're going to create programs, programs, so right. That would provide permanent, um, or
lawful, lawful permanent status to individuals. So guys, if you enjoyed this information, you enjoyed
this little pop-up live session this afternoon, give me some hearts and likes comment below.
Um, and then, Uh, uh, Tamika asks,
how can we view this budget agreement? What I'm going to do to make that I'm going to,
um, put the too, you don't want to, to be gut you don't want to review the budget resolution.
Okay. I didn't want to review it either. It's awful. Well, you know, it's not readable.
What is readable though to Mika is the memo, the instructions that, um, that I pulled up for you,
and I could put a link to that, um, after this live session. But, um, thank you. Thank you very
much for that. And you know, not every, you know, a lot of people are not going to agree with this
whole package there's aspects of what they're doing, that I don't even agree with. You know,
um, what I do think is necessary is a reform. Okay. If our immigration system,
that part I think is definitely necessary. Um, thank you for that, Thomas. You guys
are awesome. I love to see you guys show up everywhere. I go love it, love it, love it. Um,
and so, yes, I'm going to put the link to my page, um, after this session so that you could see the
memorandum for yourself and as well as the budget resolution, if you want to review that. Okay. So,
um, guys, again, just a quick recap, the Senate, the Democrats have revealed
their resolution budget resolution, and it includes immigration. It includes immigration, um,
programs for qualified immigrants. And, um, and let's, let's, let's continue to see what they do.
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