Democrats Want Immigration Deportation Shields in Economic Plan
- Plan would protect millions but offer no citizenship pathway
- Senate parliamentarian rejected two earlier immigration plans
Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois.
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Senate Democrats have abandoned plans to achieve a pathway to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants as part of President Joe Biden’s economic agenda, and instead are pursuing a proposal that would provide temporary deportation protections.
The measure would provide temporary immigration parole status to millions of undocumented immigrants, which would allow them to stay lawfully in the U.S. and to apply for work permits, said Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democratic leader in that chamber.