Dems can't include amnesty in reconciliation bill, parliamentarian rules

The Senate parliamentarian has issued a ruling saying that provisions giving an estimated 8 million illegal immigrants and non-citizens legal permanent resident status and a pathway to citizenship could not be included in Democrats’ go-it-alone “Build Back Better” budget reconciliation legislation.

In her ruling on Sunday, Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, who previously worked for the Department of Justice handling immigration cases, said that “the policy changes of this proposal far outweigh the budgetary impact scored to it and it is not appropriate for inclusion in reconciliation.”