Dear John,  

I want to personally invite you to join an important conversation
this Thursday evening we'll be hosting live on our Facebook
 page with Bill
Kristol, director of Defending Democracy Together and former Chief of
Staff to Vice President Dan Quayle, to talk about the budget
reconciliation process and what it means for immigration reform. RSVP
for the event here.   

The reconciliation process
 was
created to bring order to federal budgeting and encourage budgetary
savings. Because the reconciliation process is not subject to Senate
filibuster rules, it requires only a simple majority in the Senate.
There are a number of rules restricting its use, but it has
increasingly been used by both parties to enact major policy changes. 

Congressional Democrats are expected to include provisions providing for
significant immigration reforms in a large reconciliation
package they will be advancing this summer and fall, including granting
a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers, Temporary Protected Status (TPS)
holders, farmworkers, and other essential workers. While a Democratic
reconciliation bill is unlikely to gain bipartisan support and has
a number of procedural hurdles to overcome, it does
potentially represent a path forward to obtain needed immigration
reforms.  

With Congress engaging in an extended debate over reconciliation in
the coming weeks and months, we thought it would be helpful to unpack
the process and the politics. And we could think of no better person to
have this discussion with than Bill Kristol.  

Mark your calendars for Thursday, July 29 at 5:30 PM ET
 

** **

On Monday, Bill co-authored a Washington Post op-ed
 with
Janet Murguía, President and CEO of UnidosUS, calling for the
inclusion of needed immigration reforms in the Democratic reconciliation
package. In the piece, they wrote: "Most Americans don't see this as
a partisan issue. Republicans, unfortunately, seem unwilling to work
seriously to find a solution to this problem. If Democrats must go it
alone, they are doing so not to advance some political agenda, but for
the good of the country."  

Learn more about the reconciliation process during our live event this
Thursday, July 29, at 5:30 PM ET   

Thursday's conversation will discuss the reconciliation
process, the opportunity it provides to
advance immigration legislation, and what the debate
over what reconciliation means for the broader conversation around
achieving bipartisan, lasting immigration reforms.   

Mark your calendars and join us Thursday at 5:30 PM ET on
Facebook for this important conversation.
   

I look forward to seeing you there!   

Ali Noorani 

President & CEO 
National Immigration Forum  

 

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