Originally Posted by ralsingh

It is difficult to understand after the parliamentarian's "plan A" ruling, how she could agree on any provision that gives legal status to those who have NO status at all.

Democrats, who clearly don't seem to be serious to solve this (given their genius plan Bs and Cs), can ask to move registry date, changes to section 245(i), etc... as long as it legalized those who have NO status, I don't see how the parliamentarian will walk back on her initial ruling.

The only sliver of hope is to give PERMANENT legal status to those who already have some form of TEMPORARY legal status (like DACA, TPS, EBV etc.). From a policy change perspective, temporary to permanent is less of policy change THAN no status to permanent status.

The scale of policy change is what she is worried about.

Again, even this is on shaky grounds.