Hey guys today, the house Democrats introduce legislation that says,
if you've been in the United States for seven years, at least seven years, you will
be eligible to apply for a green card. It's that simple under this new bill, I'm gonna talk about
what this is. Why do they even introduce this? And whether this is something that we should hang any
hope on? Okay. Because this is about the registry of the registry is back guys for our discussion.
I'm gonna, uh, take you into, um, the issues with respect to this bill. For those of you who are new
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this is a very interesting bill, right? Led by representative Rin out of California.
And this bill will tweak the registry, which is that old law that said, if you had entered
the United States by a certain cutoff date, you would be eligible to apply for a green card. We've
talked about the registry before last year when we were going through the debacle, right? With
immigration reform, budget reconciliation, the Senate parliamentarian. Remember those good old
days, right? It was really, um, a very emotional rollercoaster last year. And the registry was one
of the plans that the Senate parliamentarian rejected. Now it's back for our discussion
and it's back because Senate representative Rin says in this new bill that, well,
instead of creating a cutoff date for people to meet, why don't we
say something like, well, if you've only, if you've been here for at least seven years,
you're eligible for a green card and we'll make this available on a rollin basis so that
we wouldn't have to constantly go back and tweak the registry so that people in the future, um, who
meet the requirements, they will be eligible to apply for the green card as well.
And this sounds so great in theory, and God knows that millions of people are weighed in for amnesty
and guys, you know, that I also support amnesty. Okay. You know, it's great if this
Could work, but we have a Congress that doesn't really function the way that we would like it to
function. And so now the, the issue is, well after Congress, well, will Congress take this up? Will
they consider it? Well, it's possible that this could move forward on the house side and may even
pass the house. But then when it goes over onto the Senate side, that's where we really have to
think about whether it's gonna go anywhere. Because on the Senate side,
there is no reconciliation that they're dealing with. Uh, that's connected to this
piece of legislation, right? It's not something that the Senate parliamentarian will
need to decide on. It's gonna need 60 votes on the, on the Republicans, uh, on the Senate side in
order to pass. And that requires some Republican support. It has to get that 60 votes, uh, because
filibuster to get through the filibuster, um, challenge, okay, 60 votes will be needed.
And so, um, if on the Senate, my thinking is this on the Senate side, you have the dream act
legislation that has been sitting there for a very long time, that would
provide a lawful status for those who have DACA, um, and other, uh, other individuals, uh, farm
workers, um, and essential workers and some others. Um, you know, the legislation have,
has been pending on the Senate side, around some groups of individuals that many people can
agree on that need some sort of relief or amnesty or lawful status, permanent lawful status.
But those legislation haven't really moved on the Senate side. So why would they then do something
around, uh, uh, a very big amnesty program, such as the one that is being, um, proposed here?
It just, why would they introduce this? Why my thinking is this. They, the Democrats are under
a lot of pressure to do something, to show their constituents, that they are still fighting.
They are still pushing for immigration reform. They're still trying to get something done
yet. They may, they know that their colleagues aren't gonna support it,
but they're putting these things out and they're holding these little press conferences in front
of the capital, building these little rallies, uh, getting people stirred up and excited again, and
they know the political game. And, um, it's, it's, to me, it's kind of shameful
for them to put out proposals that they know will fail. They need to try to work on bipartisan level
anyway. So that's what this is. It is not law. It is not something that can help anyone
right away. It has a ways to go a long ways to go, and it must
Get 60 votes on the Senate side and then signed into law by president Biden. So if this moves or
anything that is very promising moves on Capitol hill, guys, you know, that I will report out to
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