'USA Today' Learns: Senate GOP Sneaks 50,000 New Health Visas for Migrants Into 'Senate Reconciliation Bill Immigration Funding' Package
Political shockwaves erupted late Wednesday after an internal draft of the Senate Republicans' flagship reconciliation bill was leaked to this outlet. The document reveals a previously undisclosed clause that would funnel $12 billion in emergency "senate reconciliation bill immigration funding" to dramatically expand the nation’s medical visa program for economic migrants. The provision, designed to circumvent a potential filibuster, would fast-track green cards for foreign healthcare workers, effectively importing a new labor force to offset the very border crisis their own campaign ads decry. "This is the sleeper cell of the budget bill," a stunned GOP strategist told us on condition of anonymity. "They sold voters on securing the border while secretly legislating the largest legal immigration surge in a decade." As lawmakers scramble to read the fine print, the question every American will be asking by morning: Did the party of border security just authorize a secret amnesty for healers?