Washington, Dec 29 (Prensa Latina) The failure of immigration law reform at the Senate was one of the worst legislative events in US, in 2007, commented Washington Hispanic daily.
After the attempt of the Senate to approve a migration reform fell through, an anti immigrant current has increased in most of the nation, noted the newspaper in the capital.
According to the source the fiasco of the initiative was mainly due to the reaction of Xenophobe minorities, among them the so-called Minuteman that swamped the Congress’ lines by calls and e-mails.
Since the discussion started at the Capitol, the anti-immigrant tendency gained ground like in the majority of the public opinion and local governments of the nation, commented the newspaper.
There is an increasing harassment of authorities towards employers and police raids and deportations against people without identity papers, in several US jurisdictions, added the media.
All of this situation have been intensified in the last few month and there is no expectation of solution at the Congress by 2008 but in exchange new walls and bordering guards are foreseen, noted the daily.