House Democrats are expected on Tuesday
to bring to a vote a bill to grant protection from deportation and a
path to permanent residency for millions of illegal immigrants.
H.R. 6,
the American Dream and Promise Act, will likely pass the
Democratic-controlled House, although it is dead on arrival in the
Republican-controlled Senate. The bill passed through the House
Judiciary Committee last month, following what Politico called an
“intraparty squabble” over whether or not it should provide a path to
citizenship to certain individuals with criminal records, and whether or
not it should extend federal financial aid to illegal immigrants.
According to an analysis jointly
authored by the Center for American Progress and the University of
Southern California Dornsife Center for the Study of Immigrant
Integration, the ADPA would extend permanent legal status and eventually
a path to citizenship to up to 2.5 million currently resident illegal
immigrants. These would be drawn from beneficiaries of the Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Temporary Protected Status (TPS),
and Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) programs.
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