Fun Fact: @SenatorDurbin's lead negotiator on immigration proposals to parliamentarian is Mahatma Gandhi's great grandson, per several sources in the green card reform movement.
Biden's reconciliation plan still includes "reducing backlogs" in the immigration system. How will Congress interpret this and will the parliamentarian accept whatever it comes up with? https://t.co/yifeinpFDR
Employment-based green card backlogs need to be fixed. There is so much talent ready to contribute, grow our economy, and create more jobs that is simply waiting in the wings.
https://t.co/1zlEAGIby2
Stop horse-trading us @SenatorDurbin. We want to trust you but your actions lie. Please put an end to your hate for Indian Immigrants. We have suffered enough in the backlog.
Include 60002/3/4 & submit to Senate Parliamentarian.
#DurbinIsRacist#DurbinHatesIndians@JudiciaryDems
Are you listening @SenatorDurbin? 20 years of your immigration drama, still continues. Several dreams shattered. End the backlog. Stop the abuse. Break the shackles.
Stop hating indian immigrants.
#DurbinIsRacist#DurbinHatesIndians@JudiciaryDems
https://t.co/I5U06pFuN1
Despite a historic labor shortage, and a massive visa backlog, the Biden administration has not returned work visa issuances to the pre-pandemic level. Altogether, there is a deficit of 1.2 million potentially work-eligible visas since March 2020 https://t.co/Y8lhtd48tN
Are you listening @SenatorDurbin? Green Card means certainty. Without that, Immigrant workers face indentured servitude. We want to trust you but your actions lie.
When will you stop hurting our kids?
#DurbinIsRacist#DurbinHatesIndians@JudiciaryDems
https://t.co/YfXPcIRRlG
.@SenatorDurbin, you hurting us is unacceptable! 20 years of your immigration drama, still continues. Several dreams shattered. We want to trust you but your actions lie.
Stop hating us. Get 60002/3/4 approved now.
#DurbinIsRacist#DurbinHatesIndians@JudiciaryDems
The key to lasting relief is to call @SenatorDurbin at 202.224.2152 & shame him into not screwing you & your family out of relief in the upcoming reconciliation bill, after spending months moaning on the Senate floor last year about more GC. Message -> https://t.co/wQD1AdVliD 2/2
New Senate measure to address green card backlogs is getting criticism for adopting a calculation method that helps people in family-based queue but not so much those in employment-based queue.
Updated story here & more reporting to come:
https://t.co/RHUgiInVqe
I don’t understand these continued gratuitous attacks—by people I respect massively and would defend until my dying day—on people who are just trying to work hard and get some basic rights in the workplace and certainty into their lives. It has to stop. All immigrants are equal!!
At some point, if you can’t discern the motivation, you have to look at the outcome and infer the motivation. The outcome here is to continue to keep tens of thousands of people harmed based solely on their country of origin. People are right to start getting bent out of shape.