The bipartisan dignity act. Does it stand a chance?

Trump states firmly that there will be no amnesty while he is President.

Bipartisan is a term tossed around when two or three people from one Party join another Party to offer something that they believe will be popular to everyone. Of course they rarely are popular. When you stoop to taking a congressional bill and stamping it with a term like "dignity act" you know it is probably a deeply flawed attempt at legislation. If it was good legislation then it wouldn't need a silly name. You know, such as the large climate change law that Democrats named "inflation reduction act" even though it literally did nothing to reduce inflation, even by design.

So what does the dignity act do?

• Provides a temporary legal status for anyone who entered before 2021. It would appear to look like a work permit (green card) that would expire in seven year.

• Provides permanent residency to those people after seven years, if they keep their noses clean and follow all of the rules. They would not, however, be citizens. Just residents and not eligible to vote.

• Money for more things like humanitarian campuses around the border entry points. These sounds like our current detention camps but possibly providing more health care, legal support, and other "humanitarian assistance". Basically just a nicer name. There will probably still be cages.

• Asylum officers, whom could make decisions on asylum in some cases, or in other cases they would refer them to an immigration judge. One would assume that they would approve more people quicker than the current system.

On the other side:

• It would federally require all employers to use E-Verify to make sure that the people they hire are not illegals. Obviously this is not fool proof, but it works around 85% of the time. Right now several states refuse to require it, meaning many employers are just accepting whatever they are told.

• It would increase civil penalties for employers who do not stay in line with the laws on immigration hiring.

• Increased the penalty for a non-citizens voting from one year to five years in prison.