President Joe Biden's big immigration bill will be delayed until April as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi struggles to find enough Democratic votes.
Politico reported Thursday that Democrats took a whip count this week and found that the package wouldn't pass as-is.
Instead, they'll send the legislation through the Judiciary Committee and pass smaller immigration bills this month.
The Hill newspaper reported that one of those bills will be legislation that provides a path to citizenship for the so-called 'Dreamers' - immigrants who were brought to the United States as children.
On inauguration day, Biden signed an executive order fortifying DACA - Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
The Obama-era program, that came under legal assault during the Trump years, deferred deportation for Dreamers who met certain criteria.
Congressional legislation would take Dreamers out of limbo and allow them to become U.S. citizens.
Another smaller bill the House will likely take up, according to the Hill, is one that would expand visa and citizenship opportunities for migrant farmworkers.
Biden's broader bill on immigration provides an eight year path to citizenship for most of the 11 million undocumented people living in the United States.
It also makes family-based or 'chain' immigration easier.
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John R you are absolutely correcrt. FIRE the MSM, stop watching them get on Twitter and keep nailing them.
They are no good, commies...destroying our country! I dont even watch em anymore.
biden is an old fool and this goes to prove it!
he is not just an old fool, he is a sick puppy he can not run this country period and he is not the president of this country.
Obama is the President, Biden is just the puppet.
She needs to be tried and shot!!!!
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