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Originally Posted by JPhillips
The difference is the Senate version is bipartisan and the House version is just GOP. The negotiations you claim to want are happening in the Senate.
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This is fair criticism. The Senate has been the "more adult" in the room for years.
And the House GOP can say the House Democrats are so intransigent that they won't even negotiate so we had to do it ourselves. At least our Senate GOP was willing to talk to the Senate Dems.
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We're in the same place we've been for twenty years. There's enough of a majority to pass an immigration bill with concessions by both sides, but the far-right won't let anything that shows promise come to the floor for a vote.
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What did Obama and Dem House & Senate do in 2009?
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Despite his promise to pass a major immigration bill during his first year in office, President Obama’s first major act on immigration came in August 2012. The president announced an executive order entitled Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which resulted in renewable two-year grants of protection from deportation—plus work permits and identity documents—for approximately 700,000 illegal aliens who arrived in the country as children.
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What did Joe and Dem House & Senate do in 2021?
Joe did a lot of executive orders rescinding Trump's stuff and some wink-wink in keeping some. He came up with "U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021" which died in committee under a Democratic Congress.
It is absolutely fair to say the right wing extremists wanted nothing to do with giving legal status or citizenship to illegals. It is also fair to say the far left wanted nothing to do with a bill that did not legalize the illegals. These are 2 line-in-the-sand stances for the Dem/GOP House.
Or let's put it in another way. If the Dems said let's strip out the legalization of illegals from the Dignity Act, and we'll vote on it in a different bill. I'd predict the Dignity Act will pass quickly.