The economic conditions brought about by the pandemic give us a glimpse of what a landscape even marginally tilted toward workers might look like: more flexibility, better working conditions, higher wages, and last but not least: the dignity that goes hand in hand with meaningful work. The immigration framework drafted by the House for the budget reconciliation bill would short-circuit that progress.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested a vote was imminent on a bill that would grant amnesty to nearly 8 million illegal aliens on Thursday afternoon only to rescind it just a few hours later. Regardless of yesterday's events, Congressional Democrats moved closer to passing their sweeping budget reconciliation bill.
Progressive House Democrats and activist groups have ramped up their calls for amnesty in the budget reconciliation bill, despite two previous attempts being shot down by the Senate Parliamentarian for such a proposal breaking the Byrd Rule.
Democrats' plan to include a multi-million alien amnesty in the massive partisan fiscal spending bill (a.k.a BBB) Dems. hope to pass via the filibuster-proof budget reconciliation process - has now entered "plan C" after the Senate Parliamentarian shot down the past two attempts.
Immigration is a top issue for American voters as the border crisis continues unabated. The Biden Administration's failure to take effective actions to secure the border, and in many ways actively encouraging more illegal border crossings, is hurting the President's approval rating with voters.
Biden's approval ratings on immigration have plummeted, and Latino voters in Texas are the tip of the down-facing arrow. But Biden is hardly alone.
It doesn’t take a council of economic advisors to explain the law of supply and demand to the president of the United States, but it helps to have them around if you want to muddy the waters, or “short-circuit” wage gains.
Today, the Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, issued a second decision on the viability of an amnesty for approximately 6.5 million illegal aliens in the massive $3,500,000,000,000 Democrat-led Budget Reconciliation package, reiterating that the policy impact "vastly outweighs its budgetary impact."
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the legal immigration branch of the Department of Homeland Security, recently admitted before a judge that the department had approved DACA applications after a Federal Judge ruled that the Biden Administration must stop accepting new DACA requests.