Key House chairman floats changes to immigration bill

Now, with the legislation likely to receive a floor vote next month, Goodlatte is hoping to win over more lawmakers by softening some aspect of the legislation.

One of the major proposed changes would expand the renewable legal status for DACA recipients from three years to six years, though they still would not be granted citizenship.

The modified version also doubles the cap for the family-sponsored green cards from 7 percent to 15 percent; creates a new green-card category to allow for 6,000 nurses; and allows children who are U.S. citizens and sponsoring their parents to come to the U.S. to sign an affidavit of support.

Goodlatte already made some minor tweaks earlier this year to appease the agricultural industry's concerns over the guest worker program that is established by the legislation. But lawmakers from agricultural regions said the changes weren’t enough.

Rep. Jeff Denham (R-Calif.), who represents the Golden State’s agriculture-heavy Central Valley and is leading the discharge petition push, said at the time that the cap on seasonal workers was still too low and the “touchback” provisions did not provide strong enough guarantees that workers will be able to come back to the U.S. once they return to their home countries.

Goodlatte’s new proposal would make additional tweaks to the bill’s agriculture section, such as eliminating a requirement that guest workers prove they have a residence in a foreign country that they don’t intend on abandoning; ensuring that guest workers don’t need to wait for a visa while they touch back to their home countries; and providing 40,000 new visas for meat and poultry processors.

But it’s unclear whether the changes will be enough to win over Denham and other moderate Republicans who are aggressively pushing for a DACA fix.

Goodlatte met with the leaders of the Republican Study Committee (RSC), Freedom Caucus, Tuesday Group and Republican Main Street Partnership on Monday to discuss some of the proposed changes to his bill, among other issues, according to RSC Chairman Mark Walker (R-N.C.).

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/38...migration-bill

No citizenship , or residency at least they can shove the bill and the changes .

Chad Pergram
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Scalise says Hse plans to consider the conservative Goodlatte immigration bill June 22. Says then they would come back to the farm bill

It’s going to fail . Moderates better vote against it till we get a better bill.

instead of renewable status every 3 years why cant they do a conditional Green Card?? why is that so hard!!

Shitlatte once again

Carry on with the discharge petition.

This other maneuver by Goodlatte is about the farm bill which forces poor and disabled people to supposedly 'work' and is not about helping Dreamers.

Carry on with the discharge petition.

I don’t mind 6 years renewable

Not ideal but it's enough time for to figure something out

me neither and I care about being able to travel freely without applying some fucking stupid AP with restricted purposes. Hello, I just want to travel.

What a mess.