As the lame duck session of Congress continues, educational organizations are lobbying for legislation to protect undocumented Americans who arrived in the country at young ages, known as Dreamers.

Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto triumphed in her closely watched race this past weekend, defeating Big Lie pusher Adam Laxalt and keeping the U.S. Senate in Democratic control for another two years. Cortez Masto, the first and only Latina in the chamber, secured her reelection on Saturday following vote counts in Clark County, a blue stronghold.

Heading into the midterms, the Democrats kept quiet about migration as if there was no problem at the border and let the Republicans dominate the debate by making this a political spectacle, blaming everything on migration. It was a missed opportunity.

This picturesque village in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is nearly 2,000 miles from the country's southern border.

Even as Republican candidates continue to pummel incumbent Democrats on a faltering economy and sidestep anger over the overturning of Roe v. Wade, they have launched a fresh salvo of attacks over immigration.

On June 30, the Supreme Court handed down its last and virtually only uplifting decision in an otherwise regressive and chilling term. After killing Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion, limiting Miranda Rights protections, and delivering a blow to climate action, the conservative supermajority decided not to add the rights of immigrants to their list of casualties—at least not entirely—and gave a rare win to the Biden administration.

It was called “The Wave.” The words come rapid-fire, the camera panning over darkened pictures of a border checkpoint and Hispanic men holding guns under a freeway overpass.

"Being able to count on an immigration clinic, which also offers services for free, means a relief for my parents, even for several friends who had not decided to seek legal advice," says Jorge Estrada, a student at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.