César Martínez, an expert on political issues, says that with a Republican majority in the government and Congress, now is the time to seek immigration reform, and for that civil organizations should approach the Republicans.
The workings of democracy in the United States have been put to the test this week, and one expert warns that its strength has seen it through a difficult time, though the challenge remains.
In an analysis of the post-electoral scenario in which the country finds itself, analyst and political advisor César Martínez affirmed in an interview with the Voice of America that an unprecedented campaign has to have an original ending.
"The former governor of New York, Mario Cuomo, said that you campaign with poetry and govern with prose, and now we are in the moment of prose. Protests are a right, and they are exercised by the protesters and the president-elect himself," Martinez says.
But the former are going through a moment of catharsis, while Donald Trump surprises us by tweeting again. Let's hope we have a President Trump and not a tweeting president," says the expert.
Martínez recalls as an example the case of Brexit in Great Britain and the surprise it meant for that country. "We presumed the movie we were going to see and the result was totally different, that's what we experienced this week in politics," says this political consultant.
On one of the most sensitive issues in this campaign and one that compromises the future of many, immigration, Martinez analyzes the prospects under a Republican-majority administration and Congress.
"I have my serious doubts that there will be a mass deportation, I think this is the time to push immigration treatment among Republicans, those are the votes that are missing," says Martinez.
"It is necessary to approach Paul Ryan and Republican political leaders to begin to address the issue and negotiate a path that does not necessarily have to be citizenship, it can be a residence or a temporary status that includes a work permit," Martinez said.
"There are precedents for dealing with this very difficult issue, one with President Reagan in the 1980s and President Bush in 2007," the expert emphasizes.
"What I do worry about is DACA because DREAMers are the best we have in the immigrant community, they are young people who have put all their efforts to get an education and contribute to the community and it would be unfair to abandon them," says Martinez.
At the same time, this expert, who heads the Mas Consulting Group, affirms his hope that there will be no mass deportations.
"I believe that we will not go to that extreme and that a way out will be found along the way, because there are many Americans who live with immigrants on a daily basis and consider their contribution to the country to be important," Martinez concludes.