The Senate parliamentarian, essentially the upper chamber's referee on what can appropriately be included in reconciliation bills, nixed that version of amnesty 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.
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 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 skilled Americans.
Entirely separate from the controversial provisions in the House bill providing legal status to illegal immigrants, the bill includes several provisions that effectively terminate, for at least 10 years, all numerical limits on the annual allotment of green cards.
They reflect a massive overhaul, and legal immigration will explode under the reconciliation bill.
In exchange for just a $5,000 fee paid by a sponsoring employer, an alien with at least a two-year wait for his or her green card to be available under the general immigration law framework can jump the line and immediately become an LPR. The obvious beneficiaries of this carve-out are H-1B employers, namely Big Tech, who have exploited several loopholes in the law that allow these "Temporary" foreign workers to essentially remain here permanently.
In his letter, Hagerty quotes one of the many compelling statements Sanders gave in 2007 in opposition to the mass amnesty bill supported by then-President George W. Bush, saying "I think at a time when the middle class is shrinking, the last thing we need is to bring, over a period of years, millions of people into this country who are prepared to lower wages for American workers." Hagerty expresses his "Shock" that Sanders is now backing a bill that would do precisely what he once so vigorously opposed.
https://cis.org/Law/Sen-Hagerty-Exposes-Big-Tech-Green-Card-Giveaway-Reconciliation-Bill
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