U.S. immigration reform blasted at Hispanic event – by the president of El Salvador in Long Island
Tagged: El Salvador, Long Island, New York, New York City, reporterPosted on: September 24th, 2007“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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