Today, President Abiden sent an immigration bill to Congress.

If Joe Biden had his brothers, Congress would make immigration reform a top priority.

The U.S. Citizenship Act modernizes our immigration system.

It provides hard-working people who have enriched our communities and lived here for decades

an opportunity to earn citizenship.

Or at least that's the message he sought to convey when he sent Congress a comprehensive

immigration proposal on his first day in office.

That plan, like the bipartisan legislation that passed the Senate eight years ago, centers

around a simple bargain, stepped up enforcement going forward, and exchanged for a reprieve

from deportation and eventually citizenship for the existing unauthorized population.

There's a problem, though.

Actually, there's a bunch of problems.

First, Republicans in Congress have abandoned that framework.

They controlled the House back in 2013 when the immigration bill had the votes to pass.

But GOP hard-liner saw to it that it never got to the floor.

Then, Republicans ran into the arms of Donald Trump.

And they remained committed to his nativist vision of a country that expels non-wide immigrants

and makes life hell for those who seek a better life here.

Democrats could, in theory, abolish the filibuster and pass Biden's plan by themselves,

but they have a bunch of other problems to address first.

To start, Democrats lost ground with Latinos in 2016 and 2020.

They assumed that Republicans would deepen the whole they've dug with voters of color

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