Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), along with other Senate Democrats, is once again lobbying President Joe Biden to take executive action that would grant amnesty to some illegal aliens living in the United States. ing. Cortez Masto’s new push for such legislation comes a month after one of her staff members was allegedly killed by an illegal immigrant.
Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA), Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), and Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM). At a press conference, Cortez Masto urged Biden to work more closely with the executive branch. order It would give legal status to a specific group of illegal immigrants.
Those eligible for pardons include those who are married to U.S. citizens, those deemed “essential” to the U.S. economy, and those enrolled in and eligible for former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. It will be done.
“President Biden has the power to keep these families together,” said Cortez Masto. Saidand bragged about the amount of taxes her Nevada illegal aliens pay each year.
“In 2018, illegal immigrants in Nevada paid an estimated $241.6 million in federal taxes,” said Cortez Masto. “And they paid $121.3 million in state and local taxes. We have to do right by them.”
Cortez Masto’s new effort to seek clemency, which comes about a month after her senior state adviser Kurt Inglehart, 38, was killed in a hit-and-run by an 18-year-old, is an important milestone. have meaning. Elmer Rueda Linares, a one-year-old illegal alien.
On April 6, police said Rueda-Linares was driving when he struck Inglehart and fled the scene. When police arrived, Rueda-Linares was nowhere to be found and Inglehart was found dead in the car.
Rueda-Linares was originally charged with a felony hit-and-run, but that charge was downgraded to a single charge of failure to stop at the scene of an accident.
of Reno Gazette Journal Leuda-Linares is an undocumented immigrant who recently arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border near the Rio Grande City, Texas, port of entry on March 12, 2021. On June 22, 2021, Leuda-Linares was released into the interior of the United States.
cortez mast I’m honored Englehart spoke on the Senate floor Wednesday.
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