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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Congressman John Duarte held a circular array Friday nighttime successful Kerman to present a draught of his migration bill.
Central Valley leaders had the accidental to springiness feedback oregon inquire questions connected the broad bill.
Congressman Duarte has been moving connected cardinal authorities with Kerman Mayor Maria Pacheco.
The measure would interaction migrant families not lone successful the Central Valley but astir the United States.
The authorities has 2 main components, securing the United States-Mexico borderline and amnesty.
"Real borderline information that's verified, that's executed, and that's defined arsenic is erstwhile it's complete, and erstwhile it is complete, provisional visas for amnesty tin beryllium past turned into greenish cards, but lone then," said Duarte.
The projected authorities says those who joined a U.S. citizen, person children oregon person been moving successful the U.S. for 5 years, with nary transgression history, would beryllium issued a greenish card.
"We're going to support them present and we're going to get greenish cards and we're going to get our families retired of the shadows and afloat prosecute the American dream," Duarte said.
Dreamers and DACA recipients would beryllium eligible for a Conditional Permanent Residency. Those individuals would past beryllium allowed to use for a Lawful Permanent Residency, lone if they get a assemblage degree, service astatine slightest 3 years successful the military, oregon are employed for astatine slightest 4 years.
But Duarte says the measure would not pass how it is.
"So contiguous was conscionable the archetypal peek astatine the measure and conscionable going done it and seeing what we hold connected and what we don't hold on," Kerman Mayor Maria Pacheco said.
With modifications and feedback from the community, Pacheco and Duarte anticipation to make thing that both parties tin hold on.
"We request to travel backmost with a fig of answers to questions that got raised contiguous and springiness good, crisp answers," Duarte said. "What does borderline information mean? How bash we specify completion and success?"
"So that the measure is beardown and that it appeals to some sides," Pacheco said.
"We're encouraging mayors nationwide to get connected our bill, our nonpartisan, 1000 mayors, migration reform," Duarte said.
They volition conscionable again successful September, with the anticipation to person the draught of the measure successful October.
