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    Immigration reform hopes nearly extinguished as Congress approaches end of session

    WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders who hoped to strike a deal on immigration reform before the end of the year faced difficult odds to push proposals through for votes. Democrats saw the lame-duck session between the election and the start of the new Congress as the last chance to pass significant legislation before losing their majority in the House. Among the immigration-related legislation ...
    by Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times Dec 22, 2022 5 minutes
    Roy Blunt as they head to a news conference following the weekly Republican Senate policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 20, 2022, in Washington, D.C. McConnell said that both Republicans and Democrats got what they wanted in the proposed federal omnibus spending legislation that was agreed to early that morning, which would help avert a government...

    WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders who hoped to strike a deal on immigration reform before the end of the year faced difficult odds to push proposals through for votes.

    Democrats saw the lame-duck session between the election and the start of the new Congress as the last chance to pass significant legislation before losing their majority in the House. Among the immigration-related legislation considered were bills that would have offered pathways to citizenship for so-called Dreamers, for farmworkers and for Afghans evacuated to the U.S. since last year; and another that would have removed caps on the number of green cards granted each year to people from any given country.

    As of Wednesday night, none of the bills had advanced.

    "I am not giving up on you — don't give up on me. We are going to fight for you to win," Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., told dozens of Dreamers at a

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