Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California wrote to Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday to express “great disappointment” that her legislation to revise green card caps was yanked from consideration on the House floor, the latest immigration effort to flounder in the final weeks of the year.
Lofgren, who chairs the Judiciary Committee’s immigration panel, said the bill is “a small and important step forward” to revise the legal immigration system for the first time in decades. It would phase out per-country caps on employment-based green cards to reduce lengthy backlogs.
“It is essential that we alleviate the hardships for those who are suffering most under the decades-long immigrant visa backlogs,” Lofgren wrote in the letter.
