I was the first to break the news that SP had rejected plan C and BBB is dead.
BBB bills had two critical components. Immigration and social spending. The social spending agenda was the disaster of “green new deal”. Ending most businesses and control of our lives through federal government. It was obvious that this social spending provisions would not pass the muster in Senate as USA is not yet communist.
While the blame goes on to Manchin, there are at least 10 more Senators who were objecting to BBB. Manchin was just their leader. So Durbin and Schumer knew all along that BBB wont pass. They just did not tell Biden that.
Immigration was the second component. We all know Durbin is the proverbial turncoat and backstabber on this issue. He had far too many Brutus moments on immigrations so no one would be surprised if he created confusion.
Part of the reason why immigration was added to BBB is that it effectively ended any possibility of bipartisan immigration bills. Zoe claimed that has added the country cap relief in BBB. USCIS delays ? We have added 400M funding to USCIS in the BBB. Now that BBB is dead in water all the clowns are back in the town in 2022.
Harsh truths
Immigration Voice is incompetent though good faith actor.
They are the one trick pony who can not get things done. Like dumbfuks these people do the same circus every year calling up congress people hoping calls have any impact. Surely it gives visibility to your issue among elected folks, but our issue already has plenty visibility. Calling same office 10 times a day will not make things better. No Congress person is going to say “sheesh, these folks are really wasting time of my unpaid interns on phone, may be lets vote yes and be done with it.”.
IV in its existence has enjoyed great support of Indian immigrants but has achieved absolutely nothing. The so called bills they support all get record co-sponsors but are not even put to vote. This is because all they have is a carrot and no stick.
IV claims to be grass-root and whatever as if being grass-root has any impact on whether bills get passed. Spamming Durbin and Padilla with calls is their strategy and their brainless followers have been calling Durbin 10 times a day.
Senator Durbin thinks of these people are absolute worthless garbage. So much that he has not even bothered to acknowledge any of the callers or their problems. Not even a non-answer-answer acknowledgement. Not even a nod. If you can not achieve anything with 1000 calls a day over 30 days then it is unlikely you will achieve anything with 1000 calls a day over 365 days. It is just spamming.
Indian immigrants stuck in backlog should work on transparency on immigration voice. Who is running it ? Who is their advisor ? What is the exact strategy ? What is the amount of donations they receive ? Which people have they contacted ? More information needs to be obtained if this org has to maintain credibility.
Bad faith actors like FwdUS.
While IV is a good faith actor, FwdUS is a bad faith actor IMO. Their leadership is not really immigrants and are paid folks. It is not clear what purpose they serve other than giving good PR to themselves and their sponsors.
This org too, achieves more in newspaper headlines than actual policy changes.
USCIS and Biden Administration.
At this point it is very clear to me that Ur Jaddou, the director of USCIS is bascially Stephen Miller of Biden administration, Biden and Jaddou has not done SINGLE items to simplify immigration by undoing all polices of Trump administration. Even the simplest of steps have not been taken.
USCIS has lied to public and courts on several occasions on how many visas they process/wasted.
Biden admin has doubled down on evil designs such as Title 42 and MPP. They have kept the consulates shut so some visas will not get processed while they have allowed students to come in, as if the virus does not impact student visas.
But what other solutions do you offer?
I have none. Because there are no solutions. It is an obvious fact that Congress thinks of you and your family as shit and you will be treated as such. It is a fact that your employer benefits by your servitude and would work hard to keep you in that servitude. There is no real solution to this problem.
💯on the idiots at IV. Don’t agree on conspiracy of adding immigration to kill bipartisan. I’ve followed immigration since 2007, bipartisan will never happen, groups like numbersUSA etc will make sure it won’t. Only way for immi fwd is BR with 52+ Dem senators or filibuster removal, Biden EO for temp. Don’t agree with desis strange obsession with Durbin, we’re too insignificant for him to “conspire” against us. 💯 that he gives a shit about incessant calls etc, that is silly, Indian Backlog should dump IV join hands with family backlog as they have more sympathy pull and remove all backlog but they don’t have that level of thinking so we’re stuck forever. GJDM