Next April, Democrats will make one last attempt to pass immigration reform, as President Joe Biden's proposed reform seems to be stalled in the Senate. In March of last year, two bipartisan bills were passed in the House of Representatives, which included a path to citizenship for some 7 million undocumented immigrants, but failed to pass due to a tie in the Senate vote.
Since the Democrats lacked the support of the opposition, they used the legislative tool known as the reconciliation package to pass the spending package, which also lacks Republican votes. However, to make immigration reform a reality, the social spending law must first be passed and then an immigration amendment included.
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