Causes and Consequences of the Failed U.S. Immigration Reform: One of the Large Debts in the Presidency of George W. Bush

Abstract

The government of the president George W. Bush (2001-2009) has concluded plunged in local problems –the rise in the price of the fuels, hypothecary crises, controversies with the funds destined for medical services, the managing of New Orleans’s catastrophe in 2005, etc.– and international troubles –the conflict in Irak and the antiterrorist fight–, situations that have placed to the president as one of most dismissed by his compatriots in the recent history of the American Union. The article deals with one of the big debts that this government leaves: the unsuccessful attempt for approving a migratory reform, and the short-term consequences that this carries. It also analyzes some of the reasons that avoided to the Bush administration to achieve the necessary support in the U. S. Congress for the approval of the migratory reform that would allow to get out from the shades to more than 13 millions of undocumented that live in the United States.