US EditionSen. Padilla Reintroduces Bill to Legalize Long-Term Resident Immigrants
UNITED STATES, JUL 25 – The bill proposes a rolling seven-year cutoff for permanent residency eligibility to include at least 2 million Dreamers and other undocumented immigrants, aiming to modernize outdated immigration law.
- On Friday morning, U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla reintroduced the Renewing Immigration Provisions of the Immigration Act of 1929, updating an almost century-old law nearly two months after ICE raids in Los Angeles.
- Under the Registry Act, the law remains frozen at a Jan. 1, 1972 cutoff, as the last update occurred in 1986 during President Ronald Reagan’s term.
- It would extend green-card eligibility to more than 8 million people, Padilla said, and at least 2 million of them are Dreamers brought as minors.
- In Watsonville, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., introduced a companion bill on Friday and visited Watsonville, Calif., to advocate the bill.
- The proposal would set a rolling seven-year residency cutoff, allowing immigrant youth raised in the U.S., TPS workers and visa professionals to apply for green cards.
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Sen. Padilla reintroduces bill to legalize long-term resident immigrants
The bill would update a law known as the Registry Act.
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