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now, there's a soiled argument to be made that it belongs in the bill because when you regularize immigrants they pay more taxes and, therefore, it's a budget issue, but no one really knows how the parliamentarian is likely to rule. you'll recall in february she ruled against including a federal $15 minimum wage in the covid relief bill. of course, if chuck schumer, majority leader doesn't like her ruling, he could always fire her. that's when then senate leader trent lott did in 2001 when he got in the way of the bush tax cuts. but does anyone believe that the dems are going to do that? what happens if the senate tries to tackle immigration reform, something they tried and failed to do so before. george w. bush was in his second term in office and had bipartisan support in congress and yet a coalition never seemed, to well, coalesce and then the obama administration tried to revive the issue but his tough actions at the border failed to mobilize activists and