Pelosi says Biden immigration plan could be split up to pass Congress
By Tal Axelrod - 02/18/21 12:59 PM EST
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that President Biden’s expansive immigration plan may be split up into individual pieces of legislation to pass Congress.
The remarks come after the introduction of the immigration proposal, which seeks to deliver on a list of Biden’s campaign promises, including providing a path to citizenship for the young people brought to the U.S by their parents as children, allowing immigrant farmworkers and those with Temporary Protected Status to swiftly obtain green cards and allowing undocumented immigrants to apply for green cards after five years.
The bill has garnered broad opposition from Republicans, though some in the GOP support specific aspects of the legislation, raising the prospect that the proposal could be broken up to deliver smaller victories.
“I salute the president for putting forth the legislation that he did. There are others who want to do piecemeal, and that may be a good approach too. That’s up to the Congress to decide,†Pelosi said at her press conference Thursday.
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