Vol.62/No.11 March 23, 1998
New York: 400 Demand Immigrant Rights
About 400 people demonstrated in front of the Federal
Building in New York February 19 to demand permanent U.S.
residency for Salvadoran, Guatemalan, and Haitian refugees who
came to the United States on or before Dec. 1, 1995. Miguel
Ramírez, president of Centro Salvadoreño in Hempstead, Long
Island, said that the U.S. immigration law passed last fall
grants permanent residency to Nicaraguans and Cubans who
arrived before or on the December 1995 deadline. He added
that a national demonstration with the same demands will be
held March 23 in Washington, D.C. According to a report
released by the national cop force in El Salvador, at least
438 Salvadorans were deported from the United States in
January 1998.
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