Hey friends in this video, we're gonna talk about the latest immigration news happening at U S C
I S the state department and Capitol hill, as well as a few other things happening at the us
Mexico border. If you're interested in hearing what's going on, watch this video for those of
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At any hour of the day. Now friends let's get into some immigration news. It's been since I touched
on some news related content, aside from what's happening on Capitol hill. Thank you so much
for your patience. Now, the first thing is this guys, U S C I S has reverted back to its policy,
which says that it doesn't have to call everyone in for an interview who had filed the form.
I seven 30, according to an announcement that the service put out there, U S C I S reverts
to previous criteria for interviewing petitioners requesting derivative refugee and Asil status for
family members. And this is good news for those of you out there who have been, um, who it's been
extremely difficult, obviously to, um, to get an interview because the process and times for a lot
of these petitions and applications have been incredibly slow. And so, uh, and then you may
have faced additional hurdles with, uh, the whole interview process anyway, in connection with the
form I seven 30, so U S C I S is gonna do this on a case by case determination. And so not everyone
will be called in for an interview. Secondly, and, and this is similar, right? This is about the
interview process. The department of state has, um, issued a temporary final rule on waiver of
personal appearance and in-person oath requirement for certain immigrant visa applicants.
What this means friends is that the flexibility that counselor officers have to waive the personal
appearance of, of folks who are considered repeat immigrant visa, applicants, that flexibility
has been extended. Okay. So they can continue to waive the personal appearance of these folks who,
um, were approved at one, uh, uh, in the past for an immigrant visa in the same classification.
And this, uh, rule is effective immediately and it expires after 24 months. So that's great news.
Now what's happening at the border. You guys may have heard that the Biden administration
has actually, um, gone back to a Trump error policy known as NPP, okay. The migrant protection
protocols program. Now, what is this migrant protection protocols? Well friends it's, um, a
policy that would require folks who are seeking to come into the United States without documentation,
or even, or illegally to be returned to Mexico and wait outside of the United States for the entire
duration of their immigration proceedings. And Mexico is then tasked with providing them
with some humanitarian protections for the duration of their state in Mexico.
Now our, our government have, has started to, um, remove people. And in fact, about 20
adult men, um, males were returned last week on Friday to Mexico, and they're continuing to, um,
send people back to Mexico under this protocol. Now, uh, let's see, what else is going on related
to the migrant crisis or migrant issue? The governor out of Florida, governor DeSantis
on Friday, he asked for 8 million in federal funding to contract with private transportation
companies to transfer migrants outside of the state of Florida. And so he, um, he, this request,
according to this article, uh, the request comes as part of proposed series of legislative reforms
that he wants to enact to resist president Joe Biden's immigration policies, and to fight
back against the Biden border crisis. He, so, um, let's continue to see how that
develops now what's happening with reconciliation on Capitol hill? Well, firstly, friends, the
Senate parliamentarian has not weighed in yet. She has not made a decision on plan C. We, uh, we're
expecting a decision to be made any moment. It now, now I meeting with the Senate parliamentarian
on the judiciary side, an immigration side, those meetings happened already, right? They happened a
couple of weeks ago and we were expecting a decision much sooner than, than this,
but it hasn't come yet. Now other committees on, uh, the Senate side are meet in with her on both
the house and Senate, uh, side they're meeting in with her this week to discuss other proposals that
are part of this reconciliation package. Senator Schumer says that he is still aiming to vote on
this big spendin bill, this reconciliation, uh, package he's expecting to vote on, have a vote
happen before Christmas. Others are saying, that's too,
that's very ambitious. It's not gonna happen. There's a lot of work that needs to
happen between now and Christmas. And they just don't think he's gonna be able to get it done.
We'll see. Well, um, I'll continue to follow that issue very closely for you. And then lastly, um,
the us chamber of commerce has asked Congress to put a pause on reconciliation, put a pause on this
reconciliation bill as inflation rises to, um, 39 year high, uh, according to the, uh, executive
vice president and chief policy officer for the us chamber of commerce. He says with prices rise
in 6.8% over the past year, squeezing budgets for families and small businesses alike. It is
time Congress to hit pause on the reconciliation bill and not add any more fuel to the inflationary
fire. So groups like the us chamber of commerce is, um, is pushing back or, uh, pushing back on
reconciliation and putting in some pressure on lawmakers. So friends that's what's happening,
um, on Capitol hill with respect to reconciliation and U S C I S news. Be sure to share this video
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