House passes scaled-back immigration measures as GOP support wanes
Source: Politico
The House on Thursday passed a pair of popular immigration bills that once seemed like the tickets to a cross-aisle deal on one of Washington's thorniest issues — but not lately.
With the GOP seizing on the growing migration crisis at the southern border, even the two measures to offer legal protections for farm workers and the group known as Dreamers have become intensely partisan.
The bills — which, taken together, would offer a chance at citizenship for roughly 3 million undocumented immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for years — did pick up some GOP support. Nine Republicans joined Democrats to pass the the Dream and Promise Act, which would provide a path to citizenship for an estimated 2 million undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children.
And in a 247-174 vote, the House passed the Farmworker Modernization Act, with 30 Republicans crossing party lines to support the legislation while one Democrat, Maine Rep. Jared Golden, voted no. The bill, introduced by Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.), would provide a pathway to citizenship for roughly 1 million farm workers and broadly expand the H-2A temporary agricultural worker visa program.
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FWIW Newhouse is from my state and represents a district that has a lot of farms and other agriculture.
