Hey friends, this is your immigration reform update for February 19th,
2021. Yesterday. The president big immigration reform bill was formally introduced on Capitol
Hill. The U S citizenship act was introduced on the house side by representative Linda Sanchez,
and it is expected to be introduced by Senator Menendez on February 22nd. The bill includes an
eight year pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented people. It also makes major changes
to the legal immigration system and addresses the backlog in our system. It also increases
the number of foreign workers and diversity visa lottery winners. It provides dreamers and TPS,
temporary protected status recipients, permanent residency, or an opportunity for permanent
residency. And it also invest in a four year plan to address or curb the migration at our Southern
border. In a statement about the bell president Biden said, I look forward to working with leaders
in the house and Senate to address the wrongdoings of the past administration and restored justice,
humanity, and order to our immigration system. The bill does not have bipartisan support as of
the filming of today's video. And it faces an uphill battle in the Senate where I vote of 60
is needed for passage for more information about the bill, certainly watch my video from yesterday,
February 18th and other upcoming videos that I will have. I'm breaking this down for you. Romney
announced on Tuesday has plans to introduce a bill that would increase the federal minimum wage while
also ensuring that businesses can not hire illegal immigrants. He said, according to Romney, our
proposal gradually raises the minimum wage without cost and jobs said in it to increase automatically
with inflation and requires employers to verify the legal status of workers. The bill has not been
introduced yet. Trump presidential proclamations one zero zero one four and one zero zero five.
Two are still in effect until March 31st, 2021, despite a letter to president Biden on February
5th, uh, by Ella and 173 other organizations urging the president to revoke these bans on
immigrant and non-immigrant visas. The bands are still in effect and the
president has not revoked them yet. On February 18th, I issued a memo that curves its enforcement
activities to focus only on those who pose a national security border security or public safety
risk or threat. According to the memo, I swell target those engaged in terrorism, espionage.
Those who are apprehended at our borders recently for unlawful entry, those convicted of aggravated
felony, and those who are participants in certain street gangs. The memo also says that particular
attention should be given to the elderly and those with serious physical or mental illness.
Now this is in stark contrast to the enforcement priorities that ice had under president Trump.
And as you can recall, from past videos of mine, ice had very broad, big authority
to apprehend just about anyone in the United States who is here without papers on Tuesday,
DHS canceled a union contract that was signed the day before president Biden's inauguration.
The contract gave ice deportation officers, basically veto power, uh, veto power over
certain policymaking at ice. The 7,500 member union had endorsed president Trump twice DHS
notified ice and the union that the agreement had been disapproved friends. I hope you found that
summary helpful doing these new summary videos are incredibly difficult to prepare for and deliver to
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