Political harmony with immigration reform

During the recent virtual mobilization promoted by the We Are Home campaign, with which it has been urged to fight for citizenship for millions of immigrants and to achieve it this year, voices have emerged at all levels that echo this Permanent call so that, on this occasion, the end is reached and that long-overdue objective is fulfilled.

At the political level, the words of the president stand out, in particular of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, as well as that of the leader of the Democratic majority in the Senate, Chuck Schumer.

Pelosi appealed directly to the debt owed to immigrants saying, among other things, that they “make America more American with their determination for a better future for their families. But the most important thing is that we owe them not only gratitude, but action. ”

Schumer, for his part, set his position in a more comprehensive sense when commenting that“ we have a lot to do with do to make the United States a more inclusive and fair country again… I promise you that I will not rest until those (communities) come out of the shadows. ”

Beyond the The promise that the words of both Democrats carry in themselves, underlies on this occasion the sense of urgency that further drives the need to recognize, with migratory regularization, millions of human beings who have given everything, literally, for this country since decades ago.

Therefore, this time failing is not an option; And, for this, it is necessary and obligatory to go from promises to deeds.

Because either as agricultural workers, beneficiaries of DACA, TPS or DED; Or, more recently as essential workers throughout the COVID pandemic – 19, risking their own lives and those of their families, these undocumented have fully fulfilled their part in the gear of this nation of immigrants, even during the four long years of the last administration, which applied the most draconian immigration policies in the recent history of the country to block their advance in American society. And even so, they resisted.

Indeed, there are many outstanding debts with millions and millions of immigrants who, despite xenophobic, racist and anti-immigrant rhetoric, have shown that their determination It is not taking a step back, not only as an example of persistence to provide well-being for their families, but as the most concrete and irrefutable proof of development in all senses of a nation of the 21st century. Its presence – its demography – represents the guarantee of one or more generations of relief to keep alive a country like the United States and all that it has meant for contemporary history.

Who they don’t see it that way, they continue to show blatantly discriminatory opposition, as if the multiple benefits that undocumented immigrants have provided to this nation are not worth it just because they lack legal immigration status.

That, at the political level, obviously implies a blockade that seems insurmountable. But with the power that the Democratic caucus now enjoys, plus the mechanism of the reconciliation process to settle, without the Republican side, many of the pending issues on the legislative agenda, including immigration, there is no time to wait, nor that to lose. Not anymore, as happened in the past in another Democratic administration, when everything was in hand, but they preferred to look the other way. And everyone paid the consequences.

Thus, the support of the majority of American society to achieve a path to citizenship for the millions of undocumented immigrants who today keep breathing not only the political class, but the entire nation, is another element to take into account in this last stage of a struggle that has lasted for years.

It is In other words, it is completely good and healthy to applaud the commitment made by pro-immigrant political leaders, who show an undeniable political harmony with immigration reform, but we must reserve strength to continue pressing until the end, so that those words do not tone down. Never more.