The midterm elections in the United States ended in a crushing defeat for the current administration, led by President Donald Trump. Congress, which includes the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, is now in the hands of the Democrats. This electoral defeat of the Republicans, more than a success for the Democratic Party, sounds more like a sanction against the foreign, economic, and immigration policies of the current administration. This could give rise to a glimmer of hope for immigrants, against whom the government has waged a relentless battle for nearly two years.

“It is the federal government that defines the country's immigration policy. With a new Congress where the Democrats are in the majority in both chambers, there is a golden opportunity for definitive and profound changes on immigration issues,” asserts Me Eddy Laguerre. According to the lawyer, protests against the aggressiveness of Trump's immigration policy, which prominently marked the election campaigns of the midterms, should facilitate a bipartisan approach by the new elected officials to shift the lines against this widely criticized immigration policy.