Sen. Hagerty Exposes Big Tech Green Card Giveaway in Reconciliation Bill
Challenges Bernie Sanders to rediscover his pro-American worker philosophy
By Robert Law on October 27, 2021
Lacking 60 votes to overcome the legislative filibuster, Democrats are nonetheless attempting to enact major immigration changes by using a process known as "reconciliation", which only requires a simple majority to pass but is supposed to be reserved for items related to the federal budget. Andrew Arthur analyzed the original amnesty provision and warned that a significant number of criminal illegal aliens would be put on a path to citizenship along with the supposedly “otherwise law-abiding” illegal aliens. The Senate parliamentarian, essentially the upper chamber’s referee on what can appropriately be included in reconciliation bills, nixed that version of amnesty (often called Plan A) as well as a rather unconvincing proposal to change the registry date in the immigration laws that was used to determine eligibility for the 1986 amnesty (Plan B). Reportedly, Plan C is a mass “parole-in-place” option once pitched by presidential candidate Kamala Harris, but that has not yet been formally submitted to the parliamentarian.
Most of the media attention has focused on the amnesty, and the progressive left’s efforts to intimidate the parliamentarian or have Senate Democrats override her rulings, but the so-called “Build Back Better” bill also has provisions that would significantly increase legal immigration.
Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) is doing his part to expose the enormous green card giveaway to the cheap foreign workers Big Tech employs instead of recruiting and competitively paying similarly (or better) skilled Americans. In an October 22 letter to Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Hagerty wrote:
https://cis.org/Law/Sen-Hagerty-Exposes-Big-Tech-Green-Card-Giveaway-Reconciliation-Bill
