The Senate parliamentarian on Thursday rejected the most recent push from Democrats to include immigration reform in their party-line social spending bill, leaving party leaders scrambling for an alternative.
The House bill included a provision that would extend work permits and provide temporary protection from deportation for certain undocumented immigrants who came to the United States before January 2011. But according to a source familiar with the matter, the parliamentarian said it did not meet Senate requirements.
The proposal came after the Senate parliamentarian ruled that Democrats couldn’t include a pathway to legal status in their social spending bill, under Senate rules. She also rejected a second Democratic proposal to change the date on a decades-old registry law to provide more undocumented immigrants a path to legal status.
With bipartisan immigration reform talks stalled, Democrats widely viewed the social spending bill as their best chance to enact some type of immigration reform.
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By: Marianne LeVine
Title: Senate parliamentarian rejects latest Dem proposal on immigration
Sourced From: www.politico.com/news/2021/12/16/senate-parliamentarian-rejects-latest-dem-proposal-on-immigration-525195
Published Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 18:57:50 EST
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