The representatives are asking for the opinion of the Senate Parliamentarian on immigration to be disregarded.
A group of 90 Democrats in the House of Representatives sent a letter to the Senate on Monday requesting a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants be written into President Joe Biden ’s Build Back Better bill. The letter, helmed by New York Representative Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez was addressed to the three highest-ranking members of the Senate: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, President Pro Tempore of the Senate Patrick Leahy and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin. In the letter, numerous influential House Democrats urged the Senate to include legislation in the bill that would allow certain undocumented immigrants to seek citizenship, including essential workers and Dreamers. House Democrats did include a provision in the Build Back Better act that allows these undocumented immigrants to apply for five-year work permits. However, an actual route towards citizenship was not something that was included in the House’s version of the bill. „One need look no further than previous CBO [Congressional Budget Office] scores for the same proposal to know that providing a pathway to citizenship would have a massive budgetary impact,“ the letter said.
