Miguel Tinker Salas, a professor of History and Latino Studies at Pomona College, told the EFE news agency that Democratic legislators “did not want to invest their political capital” to achieve reform in the midterm election year.
“It is a political game in which immigrants have been used again,” the professor assessed with the agency.
The last to try to favor the “dreamers” was Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema, who together with Republican Thom Tillis, worked on a draft to reach an agreement that allows the progress of its parliamentary process.
Sinema, who was elected as part of the Democratic Party, declared as an independent just as she was working on the project in the last week of November.
The initiative gave permanent residence to the dreamers and left Title 42 standing, among other measures to stop the flow of migrants, which has seen an increase and has helped Republicans maintain an avalanche of criticism of the Biden government.
A more feminine congress
But the change in this new cycle will not only be political. The new Congress will have a record 149 women (106 Democrats, 42 Republicans and one independent), 124 of them in the House of Representatives.
Women will hold 28.5% of the seats in that hemicycle and 25% of those in the Senate and for the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) they will be the most diverse group so far at a racial and ethnic level, with new records representation among Latina/Hispanic (19) and Black (27) women.