Hey friends, uh, big breaking news happened today. Um, if you're out there and you have
been following the developments, that's going on around budget reconciliation and immigration,
you're going to want to watch this video because we're going to talk about the fact that today
that, that the Senate has passed the budget resolution. Okay. And what it actually means.
What's next this video, it's a little dark. Okay. Because it is early evening here in
New York where I'm located. So the quality is not going to be amazing, but nonetheless,
the content will be. So if you're out there tonight, join me in this live session for
us to talk about what happened on Capitol hill. Okay. Couple of days ago, we talked
about the fact that, uh, Senate Democrats introduced the budget reconcile, um, reconciliation
package. So to speak that included a pathway to lawful permanent, um, status for qualified
immigrants.
And it's a, one-liner, it's a one-liner we don't really know what they're gonna do next
per se. But, um, it was, it was very hopeful to see this in there and they did in fact
pass it. And, um, so now they're going on moving on to the next step. So share this
video or the slide session with your feed, encourage others to join us this evening.
I'm Latoya McBean Pompey, uh, immigration lawyer in New York. It's nice to see folks
join in. Thank you so much for being with me tonight. Hey, Beverly. Good to see you.
Uh, let's let me increase this a little bit more. Uh, good to see you guys. Um, Hey Nino.
Nice to see you. I'll I'll touch on that question a little bit later in the broadcast. All right.
So let's get into it. Friends. Let's get into it. Um, I have, uh, this little slide presentation
here that summarizes things for you.
So this is the latest immigration news, latest immigration news from Capitol hill. The Senate
pass the three, uh, the 3.5 trillion buzz budget resolution, uh, by a vote of 50 to
49. And again, as I've mentioned, this creates a pathway for lawful permanent status for
qualified immigrants. The qualified immigrants that they're homing in on are individuals
who are dreamers, who came into the United States under a certain age. Um, also people
who have temporary protected status, also farm workers, and then, and last but not least
essential workers, the resolution also provides some dollars for border security measures.
Now, um, there, during the debate, they had some, there were some amendments that were
offered right around immigration and these amendments are really not that meaningful.
Just keep that in mind. It was just some sort of procedural thing that they had to go through.
Uh, but these amendments are not binding. Okay. So here let's go through some of the
amendments that were debated. The first one was by Senator Cruz out of Texas extended
title 42 amendments indefinitely. And this did fail, uh, based on the party line vote
and under a title 42, as some of you may know, this has to do with
A border, uh,
Cross an issues, uh, turn in people back at the Southern borders in particular, um, under
public health slash COVID, um, concerns, right? This was put in place by president Trump and
president Biden actually extended this, but, um, anyway, this amendment failed, um, by
party line. Then the second amendment also failed. And what it would do is, um, create
an expensive criminal bar, our bars for people applying for permanent residency status or
citizenship that also failed this. The next one though, did pass again. Non-binding but
I'm sharing this with you to let you know what the issues are around the immigration,
um, changes that legislators are concerned about. So the third amendment, uh, would is
to establish strict criminal bars for those who would otherwise qualify for legal status.
The next one also passed, uh, to prohibit the use of funds for the transportation of
immigrants who do not have a negative COVID test.
Um, and then, uh, then the last one, um, passed as well to establish a deficit neutral fund
relating to immigration enforcement and addressing the humanitarian crisis at the Southern border.
Now, uh, what's next? Okay. What is next? Um, as I mentioned on Monday or in my last
video, the committees are now tasked with drafting legislation that would create the
programs to tell us who this will help, uh, what the criteria are for eligibility and
all of that. And so the CA the Senate judiciary committee in particular is tasked with creating
the legislation around immigration programs. Um, the house is on Reese is out on recess
right now. Uh, they returned August 23rd, uh, at which point, uh, they will consider
the budget, uh, resolution. That's the last read of things that I've seen in the press.
And then, as I've mentioned in my last video, September 15th is the committee deadline is
the committee deadline by which they need to get, um, all legislation done by then.
Now, what are the hurdles, right? Because for something as big as this, obviously there
are certain things that, um, challenges, right. Challenges to the process. The first big hurdle
that's coming up is the Senate parliamentarian still need to review this. Okay. And her role
really comes, uh, kicks in when the legislation has been drafted. What she's gonna do is she's
gonna look for any language that seems to make some sort of regulatory initiative or
changes to our regular, um, regulatory system rather than fiscal, right? Because the budget
resolution or the budget reconciliation process is all about, uh, fiscal changes, right? Not
policy changes or anything that's regulatory. So she's going to be looking for that with
the immigration workup. Okay. So I want you to still keep that in mind, although this
development is a very positive one from the standpoint of immigration, there are other
things about it that are not amazing, that are not related to immigration.
So it's one of those things, right. But with respect to immigration, it's a positive first
step. Okay. So the parliamentarian will weigh in on this come September. Okay. Then the
second hurdle that this faces is there are two Democrats, Senate Democrats who are very
moderate, and although they supported the budget resolution, they supported moving it
forward. They are not yet on board with the, you know, like everything that's in it, including
the size, the amount, you know, so, you know, it's a lot of money. And so we have to see,
um, after the legislation and everything is drafted and things, more negotiations happen
among the Democrats, whether these two Senate, uh, moderate Democrats will support the final
bill. Um, and then just a reminder guys, all Senate Democrats must support the final bill
in order for this to go through.
All right. So,
Um, so that's the latest there. And so again, just a reminder, how to reach out to us if
you're, um, in an immigration process and you need guidance, uh, you could tell that
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the first to get notice of my videos each week. Now I see other, so some questions are
coming in about, um, some things related to this news and other things that are not related
to it.
Um, so essential workers are, I have a video, um, from a few months ago that talked about
essential workers, uh, and how they're defining it. Now we have to see how the Senate judiciary
committee defines essential workers. All right, because again, remember that, um, Senator
Padilla out of California has a very broad, um, uh, legislation pending right now, citizenship
for essential workers act, something like that, um, that provides a very broad, broad
list of essential workers. Will they go with that? I don't know, maybe because that framework
is already created. Um, so say the number again, the number is, um, the number to her
office is 5 1 6 8 6 6 3900. It's also in the bottom of this video, so you could get, get
it there as well. Okay. Um, now let's see, um, I don't have any updates about,
Um, Liberia or librarian,
Um, the 11 million. Okay. So the 11 million. Um, so there is so some overlap guys, there
is some overlap with respect to, um, what was talked about at the beginning of the year
with the lawful prospective immigrants, uh, status, which is created under the us citizenship
act, which is the big Biden bill that Senator Menendez introduced. And so, um, that has
not moved that that's still there on Capitol hill, zero movement with respect to that.
But, um, because that bill is very aggressive and some Democrats don't even support it,
but in any event, there are, there is some overlap people who are considered dreamers
or essential workers do fall into that 11 million as well. So, um, we'll have to see
how, how they, uh, deal with that BB. It is really nice to see you here. Thank you so
much for joining us, uh, with respect to the backlog.
We're still, the state department is still working its way through this awful backlog.
Um, I'm not sure if that's the backlog you're referring to Castro or, um, whether you're
referring to a different, um, backlog there's backlog in the criminal, in the immigration
court system, uh, backlog with asylum. So, so many backlog issues throughout the entire
immigration system. Um, uh, let's see. So someone is asking about the, uh, prospective
immigrant status. Um, this is what I'm describing tonight that is included in that that is being,
um, move forward on Capitol hill is not the lawful prospective immigrant status. That
is a completely different status created under the U S citizenship act. And in order to really
create that status, immigration reform or changes to the law is really necessary. And
that's something that they cannot accomplish through the budget reconciliation process.
Okay. So, um, okay. So I'm going to end the broadcast.
Now, don't want to keep this, keep you guys too long and I'm losing some natural light
here in front of me, but guys again, um, very positive development. The Senate passed the
budget resolution, um, which includes the one-liner that says that the Senate judiciary
committee must create legislation that would allow, um, people to have a lawful permanent
status qualified immigrants. The Senate judiciary committee will develop that legislation by
the 15th of September to tell us who those qualified immigrants are. And, um, and, uh,
and how, uh, you may go ahead and apply for it. Now, the whole applying, applying for
this kind of thing will come after it's agreed to on both the house and the Senate side,
and, um, the application is made available. So you still gotta be a little patient guys.
It's not going to happen overnight, so continue to be patient, but this is huge. This is a
very big thing. So share this video with other people. Thank you so much for being with me
at the end of the Workday here, and I hope you guys are doing well and I will see you
in the next one. Bye bye.