Lawmakers working on an immigration reform and border security deal failed to gain traction before the start of a new Congress, in which Republicans are set to take control of the House, making their path even more perilous.
Now, Democrats and Republicans are likely to continue their clash over immigration, setting stages for court battles and a fight at the ballot box in 2024.
This week, the Supreme Court ruled the policy will remain in effect while legal challenges continue, ensuring federal officials will be able to continue to expel immigrants at the U.S. border swiftly without considering their claims for asylum. The duo ultimately ran out of time to draft the legislative text and whip up support for the deal.
“There were just so many other things lawmakers were doing that protections for DACA recipients fell on the back burner,” Guzman said. “So right now, a lot of the 'Dreamers' that are recipients of DACA, I mean ... they're kind of, like, in limbo waiting to see what happens.” While congressional aides involved with the more high-profile immigration framework believe it could serve as the basis for a bill in the next Congress, many remain skeptical that a House Republican majority could actually strike a deal on immigration, pointing to the failure of the last compromise bill under the previous GOP House majority in 2018.
However, some outside groups with visibility into negotiations in Congress believe there could be solutions implemented incrementally instead of a wider-ranging piece of legislation. Lawmakers had considered bills that would have offered pathways to citizenship for farmworkers and Afghans evacuated to the U.S. since the end of the war, as well as a proposal that would have removed caps on the number of green cards given each year to people from specific countries.
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