House Democrats on Thursday hailed the expected passage of two bills that would grant citizenship rights to millions of illegal immigrants already in the U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called it a sea change in the nation's stance on immigration.
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The bills would grant quick legal status and a path to naturalization to farmworkers and another bill to do the same for young adult "Dreamers" and other migrants in the U.S. under the Temporary Protected Status program.
One of the bills to legalize Dreamers and TPS holders could apply to as many as 4.4 million people, according to the Migration Policy Institute.
The fate of the bills in the Senate remains precarious.
Republicans who worked with Democrats on immigration bills in the past say the current border situation has made bipartisanship more difficult.
About half of the country's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants might be eligible under one or the other of the bills.
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