Advocates to Democrats: Build Back Better by giving the undocumented green cards

NBC News / Comcast ^ | November 15, 2021 | By Suzanne Gamboa

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“There is no building back anything without us," says a New York immigrant activist.

They face tough odds, but immigration advocates are pushing Democrats for a better deal in a bill heading for a vote for the millions of people living in the U.S. without legal immigration status.

Advocates want to restore a provision that was yanked, which would have created a mechanism for undocumented immigrants who were here before 2010 to get green cards. They face an uphill climb to restore it.

Angelica Salas, the director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, which is based in Los Angeles, said thousands of the group's members "want a path to citizenship that begins with legal residency, not another temporary program."

Murad Awawdeh, the executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition, said in a Zoom news conference representing immigrants of multiple racial and ethnic backgrounds: "The threat of deportation is always there. A pathway to citizenship is a pathway to stability."

It's not the first time undocumented immigrants have had to settle for less than they hoped for from Congress. Recently, in lieu of legislation, the administration has provided quasi-legal status to immigrants rather than any kind of legalization benefit.

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Yup. Actual title.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Amnesty by any name is an abandonment of the rule of law and the surrender of our sovereignty.

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“There is no building back anything without us,” says a New York immigrant activist.”

Seems to me the only things illegals contribute to this Republic is poverty and crime.

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Around here (Indiana, a LONG way from the Mexico border) you might have a hard time finding guys to do roofing, concrete, or meat packing who aren’t illegals from Mexico and south.