'Our Moment to Win Citizenship': Budget Package Provides Hope to Millions of Undocumented People

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Lawmakers are also expected to allocate a portion of the funds for "border security."
55% : The $3.5 trillion budget resolution introduced Monday by Senate Democrats and Sen. Bernie Sanders includes billions of dollars for Congress to establish a pathway to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants, giving progressives a reason to cheer.
52% : The New York Times reported late last week that Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the second highest-ranking Democrat in the upper chamber, proposed using the filibuster-proof reconciliation process to create a pathway to citizenship for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders, farmworkers, and other essential workers.
50% : Although several people, including Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas), argued Monday that granting citizenship to millions of undocumented workers will have a "major budgetary impact" and therefore should qualify for the reconciliation process, the move will be reviewed by Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, an unelected official.
47% : "We will bring undocumented people out of the shadows and provide them with a pathway to citizenship, including those who courageously kept our economy running in the middle of a deadly pandemic," said Sanders (I-Vt.), chair of the Senate Budget Committee and key architect of what he called "the most consequential piece of legislation for working people, the elderly, the children, the sick, and the poor since FDR and the New Deal of the 1930s.
41% : "Are we going to let an unelected person decide on the lives of folks with DACA?

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