Immigration Chaos at the hill!
After lot of flip flips apparently no one including Senator Padilla has accurate information on what is added in the budget reconciliation, what is being sent to Senate Parliamentarian and when.
Meanwhile Pablo@LatinoRebels released a story which suggested that The current Senate Parliamentarian was an INA attorney in past and was deporting people. Clearly she is biased in immigration related matters and should have recused herself and instead asked her deputies to work on immigration proposals.
To summarize all the insider scoops, speculations, rumors and public news this is what we know so far:
BR plan C will go to Senate Parliamentarian on Tuseday (today) or Wed (tomorrow).
Plan C has some combination parole and registry proposal. It is not clear if it is both, one or if SP can pick and chose.
Almost everyone including Senator Manchin is okay with the legal immigration related proposals except for Senator Durbin who has refused to talk about it and has confirmed that he does not want to send those items to Senate Parliamentarian.
Even Hispanic caucus members and Senator Menendez have turned around after the advocacy efforts to educate them about the issue.
There is an actual chance that these legal immigration provisions might pass and hence the usual suspects like lobbies of body shoppers, lawyers, and the cult of trump people are spreading misinformation.
There is a good chance if this plan C is rejected, Democrats will just call it a day and ignore any immigration proposals what so ever.
Far left progressive groups are demanding that Senate should overrule the SP’s office but the Senate leadership does not have appetite for it.