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Friday, March 5, 2021
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Top Stories All Quiet on Immigration as the full House and Senate Take Week-Long Recess Amidst Limited Committee Activity
Monday, February 15, 2021
Indeed, the only anticipated migration-related action taking place on Capitol Hill during the week of February 15, 2021, is the likely unveiling by Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Representative Linda Sanchez (D-CA) of the text of "the “U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021", immigration reform legislation that was largely put together by the Biden Administration to fulfill the new president's immigration-related campaign promises.
House Panels to Take Up Reconciliation Measures While Senate Conducts Second
Trump Impeachment Trial Sunday, February 7, 2021
The action that will probably generate the most attention from the news media during the week ahead, though, is the second impeachment trial of former President Donald J. Trump, which is set to begin on Tuesday, February 9.
The most consequential migration-related actions that are taking place in Congress during the coming week may not yet have been officially placed on the week's calendar; Twelve House committees are required to produce legislation by Tuesday, February 16, that will be packaged into the Biden COVID-19 relief bill. However,, only three of them were officially scheduled at the time of this writing. The biggest of them, including one of the two that are most likely to include provisions impacting migration law and policy are yet to be officially scheduled. Word could come early in the week of when the remaining nine committees will hold their markup sessions. As far as the week beginning February 8, 2021, is concerned, from the perspective of those interested in migration policy, at the time of this writing, the week's legislative schedule includes one hearing (occurring in the House), four business meetings of committees (all occurring in the House) that either have jurisdiction over migration matters or that could produce legislation impacting migration law or policy. Congress Adopts Budget Blueprint Paving the Way for the Eventual Enactment of a $1.9 TRILLION COVID-Relief Bill
Friday, February 5, 2021
While the blueprint that Congress adopted did not contain any explicit immigration provisions, it is widely anticipated that the legislation that will result from House and Senate adoption of the budget blueprint will have impacts on immigration policy.
Friday's congressional action occurred in connection with S. Con. Res. 5, the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2021 (Budget Resolution). The Senate passed the measure by a vote of 51-50, with Vice President Harris casting the tie-breaking vote, at about 5:23 am EST on February 5. The House concurred in the Senate action at about 2:23 pm EST later that day, doing so by a vote of 220-210. Background. As introduced in the Senate, the text of S. Con. Res. 5 was almost identical to the text of H. Con. Res. 11, the Fiscal Year 2021 budget resolution, which the House passed on Wednesday, February 3, 2021. The measure is a "skinny budget resolution" designed to provide a vehicle for facilitating enactment of a budget reconciliation bill that would be comprised of President Biden's COVID-19 relief proposals. Congress Poised to Begin FY '21 Budget Process that Could Produce Significant Coronavirus and Immigration-Related Provisions
Sunday, January 31, 2021
While the House and Senate Democratic Leadership intend to use the coming budget action as a vehicle for producing coronavirus legislation, the pro-immigrant advocacy community is hoping to use this week's budget action as a vehicle for enacting immigration reform legislation.
Away from the Capitol Dome, the Biden Administration is expected to issue a number of immigration-related executive actions during the coming week, including actions reversing Trump-era asylum policies, a plan to reunite migrant families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, and a plan "to modernize the U.S. immigration system.' As far as the week beginning February 1, 2021, is concerned, from the perspective of those interested in migration policy, the week's legislative schedule includes one hearing (occurring in the House), two business meetings of committees that have jurisdiction over migration matters, and the possibility of three floor actions impacting migration law or policy. Biden Extends Deferred Enforced Departure for Liberians Living in the United States
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
The Deferred Enforced Departure program covers around 4,000 Liberians who have lived in the U.S. for many years and for whom returning would be unsafe due to conditions in their country. President Trump declined to renew Liberian DED.
Biden Issues Proclamation Ending "Immigration Emergency" and Halting Construction of
Trump's Border Wall Wednesday, January 20, 2021
As a technical matter today's Proclamation terminates the emergency declared in President Trump's Presidential Proclamation 9844, and continued in several subsequent actions, is terminated and that the authorites invoked in that proclamation
Biden Moves to Undo Trump's Attempts
to Rescind DACA Wednesday, January 20, 2021
The Presidential Memorandum commends the DACA program, asserting the persons who have been protected by it "were brought to the United States as children, have obeyed the law, and stayed in school or enlisted in the military." Continuing, it asserts that "DACA reflects a judgment that these immigrants should not be a priority for removal based on humanitarian concerns and other considerations, and that work authorization will enable them to support themselves and their families, and to contribute to our economy, while they remain.
Biden Issues Order Reversing Several Key Trump Administration Civil Immigration
Enforcement Priorities Wednesday, January 20, 2021
As a technical matter, Wednesday's action by the new president revoked former President Trump's Executive Order 13768 of January 25, 2017 (Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States).
Biden Issues Proclamation Reversing
Trump "Muslim Ban" Wednesday, January 20, 2021
As a technical matter, Wednesday's action by the new president revoked four different actions taken by President Trump: Executive Order 13780 of March 6, 2017 (Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States); Presidential Proclamation 9645 of September 24, 2017 (Enhancing Vetting Capabilities and Processes for Detecting Attempted Entry Into the United States by Terrorists or Other Public-Safety Threats); Presidential Proclamation 9723 of April 10, 2018 (Maintaining Enhanced Vetting Capabilities and Processes for Detecting Attempted Entry Into the United States by Terrorists or Other Public-Safety Threats); and Presidential Proclamation 9983 of January 31, 2020 (Improving Enhanced Vetting Capabilities and Processes for Detecting Attempted Entry Into the United States by Terrorists or Other Public-Safety Threats).
Biden Issues Order Reversing Trump Actions on the Undocumented and the 2020 Census
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
The new President's actions revoked two Trump-era measures: Executive Order 13880 of July 11, 2019 (Collecting Information About Citizenship Status in Connection With the Decennial Census), and the Presidential Memorandum of July 21, 2020 (Excluding Illegal Aliens From the Apportionment Base Following the 2020 Census).s.
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House Appropriations Subcommittee on
Labor, HHS, Education Hearing on Safety Protections for Meatpacking, Poultry, and Agricultural Workers Tuesday, March 2, 2021 House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on
Western Hemisphere Hearing on Venezuela Challenges Facing the Biden Administration Wednesday, March 3, 2021 |
Senate Committee on
Judiciary Business Meeting to Organize for the 117th Congress and Consider the Nomination of Merrick Garland to be Attorney General of the United States Monday, March 1, 2021 Senate Committee on
Finance Business Meeting to Consider the Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be Secretary of Health and Human Services Wednesday, March 3, 2021 |
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Upcoming Senate Actions Senate Floor
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It is expected to take up the following items impacting migration law and policy during that period:
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House Committee on
Foreign Affairs Hearing on the Biden Administration's Foreign Policy Priorities Wednesday, March 10, 2021 House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Development, International Organizations and Global
Corporate Social Impact Hearing on the COVID-19 and the State of International Development Wednesday, March 10, 2021 |
Senate Committee on
the Judiciary Hearing on the Nominations of Lisa Monaco and Vanita Gupta Tuesday, March 9, 2021 |
House Financial Services Subcommittee on National Security, International Development, and Monetary Policy
Hearing on Human Trafficking Friday, March 19, 2021 |
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House Committee on the Budget
Business Meeting to Markup Budget Reconciliation Legislation Monday, February 22, 2021 House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Business Meeting to Markup State Department Authorization Act Thursday, February 25, 2021 House Committee on Rules
Business Meeting to Markup Rule Providing for Consideration of FY '21 Budget Reconciliation Act Friday, February 26, 2021 |
Senate Committee on
Judiciary Business Meeting to Organize for the 117th Congress and Consider the Nomination of Merrick Garland to be Attorney General of the United States Monday, March 1, 2021 Senate Committee on
Finance Business Meeting to Consider the Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be Secretary of Health and Human Services Wednesday, March 3, 2021 |
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