¿Christmas Miracle for Eagle Act?
Added 2022-12-07 15:58:42 +0000 UTCThis absolutely could happen. Eagle Act could be the Christmas miracle for immigrants this year in Congress.
The House votes this evening on the green card backlog's meticulously crafted country caps bill that passed in the last last Congress 365 to 65 before Dick Durbin and Rick Scott blocked the final passage of Eagle Act in the Senate.
In July, Durbin told me he no longer supports Eagle Act, but there was Hill chatter yesterday that Durbin had changed his mind about the country caps bill he once helped negotiate with Senator Mike Lee and others.
If Durbin supports Eagle Act, the stars could suddenly align this week for an epic legislative golazo in stoppage time for the backlog community ... unanimous consent in the Senate. Importantly, the Judiciary Committee, which Durbin chairs, meets tomorrow.
Truth be told, no migrant advocacy group has fought harder, smarter for their proposal in this Congress than the green card backloggers. Documented Dreamers played nice. They were cut from NDAA by the Senate GOP.
Green card backloggers brashly defied the conventions of polite migrant-splaining in their civil rights quest for equality in the green card queue.
Hope is always a dangerous drug in immigration policy, but Eagle Act could suddenly happen this week or next. The next hurdle is this evening's House vote, which has kicked the green card backlog's prolific call campaign capacity into high gear.
My take: a fierce lobbying effort led by industry groups and xenophobes opposes the country caps bill, but an even fiercer community of nerdy migrants supports it. Advantage: Eagle Act
Watch this space.
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