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Victims and members of the community protest the stealing of their vehícles by the SFPD and then stored at the property of the tow company, SF Auto Return, for a ramson of large sums of money. (PHOTO COURTESY OF PODER)
Washington, DC – Near to a hundred Salvadorians congregated on Sept. 24 in Washington for the First Summit of Salvadorian American Leadership, organized in groups, visited approximately 42 U.S. congress people and senators to ask for support for an immigration integral immigration reform that will cover to approximately 12 million undocumented immigrants, of whom 1,000,000 might be or Salvadoran origin.
The Salvadoran activists requested democratic legislators and republicans from both cameras of Congress to check the possibility of introducing an agreement of law that facilitates the securing of permanent residence to more than 220 thousand Salvadorians who are covered under Temporary Protection Status (TPS).
Lincoln Díaz-Balart, republican congressman for Florida, said to representatives and leaders of the Diaspora, that it is difficult to introduce another piece of parallel law, while “ the definitive proposal ” has not been defined on the complex migratory system in the U.S.
In spite of everything, Congressman Lincoln Díaz-Balart and his brother Mario Díaz-Balart, also a representative in the low camera for the State of Florida, they affi rmed that his vote would be in favor of an integral migratory reform that does not break and destroys families.
On his part, Francisco Rivera, President of Salvadorian in the World (SEEM), said that the United States must refl ect on the roll of the immigrants and make distinctions without passion at the time of packing the suitcase of undocumented people who live in this country.
opportunity, the president ofOf the many millions undocumented immigrants who live in this country, the overwhelming majority is hard-working people, not delinquents, who deserve an SEEM said.
Funes asks at the ONU “for the vote of ours brothers and sisters in abroad. “
The President of El Salvador, Mauricio Funes, went up to the podium of the United Nations in New York and there he advocated the vote of Salvadorans abroad.
In addition to the suffrage for the migrantes, the Salvadoran chief spoke about the big problems of his country, in which it highlighted the crime, the insecurity, the emigration, and what his government is doing to try to solve them.
The President of El Salvador, Mauricio Funes, was raised to the podium of the Nations Joined in New York and there he advocated the vote of the Salvadorans in the exterior.
In addition to the suffrage for migrantes, the Salvadoran chief spoke about the big problems of his country, in which it highlighted the crime, the insecurity, the emigration, and what his government is doing to try to solve them.
Funes dedicated a good part of his speech to speak especially about the migratory problem and the escape of talent and labor of El Salvador that has marked alarming records in the last 20 years.
The emigration is “a family diffi cult task to carry and the permanent evidence that we are able to create the necessary conditions to retain our children in house and of that we will never be able manage ourselves individually and collectively as a society if we do not take care of this bad wound,” Fumes said.
About the inclusion of immigrants that the new government is foreseeing, Funes detailed that he is going to get involved thoroughly so that the Salvadorans abroad can vote without regardless the geographical point of residence.
“I have asked the political parties, the intellectuals, academicians and magistrates, to prepare the bases of a political national consensus that pushes the necessary reforms to expand and to strengthen democracy, trans parent the life of the political parties and to improve the performance of the electoral national justice, as well as, and this is an essential point of my request, that guarantee the right to vote of our sisters and brothers abroad,” President Funes said.
