U.S. immigration reform blasted at Hispanic event - by the president of El Salvador in Long Island

“Immigrants on Long Island can forget, for now, about the United States passing an immigration reform bill, the president of El Salvador said yesterday at a Central American festival in Deer Park.

“I don’t have any hope that there will be any reform without a new president and a new Congress,” President Elís Antonio Saca told reporters at the fifth annual Central American Day Parade and Festival.

Stalled amid a fierce political debate over undocumented immigrants, Congress failed earlier this year to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill. “It’s a subject of human drama,” Saca said of the Central American immigrant community on Long Island, the largest segment of which are Salvadorans. He added: “The vast majority are good people who are working for their families. Above all, we have faith” in immigration reform.”

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