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I actually recently asked Javier, an old family friend, that question while we were in the car in California. At this point, he’s been in the United States for so long that he goes by Jimmy. Jimmy fled the poverty and violence of Guatemala’s western highlands more than 30 years ago, at the age of 16. He’s almost 50 now, has two U.S.-born children, and is a proud Uber driver in Los Angeles. With his eyes set on the highway ahead of us, Jimmy unexpectedly cracked when his mind traveled back to Guatemala, where he left his mother, Dominga, behind. As he talked, his voice suddenly felt younger. “The idea was always to come back and see her, to hug her,” he tells me, “but unfortunately, it didn’t happen.” After all these years, Jimmy is still undocumented—going back means possibly never being able to reenter the United States. “My children are here. I don’t want to abandon them the same way I abandoned my parents.”
This week, the Biden administration and Democrat legislators formally released an immigration-reform bill that would include an earned pathway to citizenship for most of the country’s 11 million undocumented immigrants and do away with many restrictions on family-based immigration. We can expect a familiar dance to ensue: While Democrats squabble among themselves, Republicans will move heaven and earth to block them. For decades, we’ve been pondering the same questions: What will it take for Congress to finally act? Will we finally be able to give undocumented Americans the ability to look forward and backward, not only to where they’re going but where they’re from?
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