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Saturday, January 25, 2014

Article published in La Prensa Grafica of El Salvador. 

Rekindling hope in Immigration Reform
January 25, 2014 to the (s) 6:0 - Jorge A. S. Morales

From Washington. DC - President of the House of Representatives, Republican John Boehner recently said in the coming weeks will present a list of "principles" of conservatives for immigration reform with the intention of carrying it out in 2014.

This position of the wing Republican leader in Congress shows signs of life for the reform and boost confidence that flight.

The bill passed the Senate in June 2013 is a comprehensive immigration reform, including strengthening security on the border with Mexico and opens a way to obtain citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants estimated to be living in the country, but the House has objected to analyze the entire document and address it arranged by parts. However, 14 Senate Republicans joined the Democratic caucus to approve the bill, backed by the White House. 

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the population structure in 2011 was: Total of the country, 311 million, of which 51 million were persons of Hispanic or Latino ancestry.Among the most populous countries in 2011 were: Mexico: 33,557,922; Puerto Rico: 4623170, El Salvador: 1977657, 1891014 Cuba, Guatemala 1214076. El Salvador now third formerly occupied Cuba. 

Approval of the Act will benefit all those immigrants who entered the country before December 31, 2011. Receive the "provisional legal immigrant status recorded" Six months after its approval, if not have been convicted of serious crimes or committed three or more misdemeanors and pay a fine of $ 500. Besides favoring the 11 million people who fill the requirements, approval and implementation would generate approximately revenue $ 5.500 million U.S. Treasury, not counting those in fees to law firms or law offices would be paid, payment to schools teaching English, management automotive and other areas of training, purchasing and renting homes, purchase of vehicles, purchase of insurance, fuel consumption and spare parts, etc., which would boost economic recovery, both in the U.S. and in the countries of origin for immigrants. 

's suitable congressional Republicans propose that the principles to present suspension of deportations of immigrants in that lack of documents and, as a special chapter, combating arms trafficking includes both inside the country and externally to help stop violence every day life of innocents throughout the world-charged beings and is one of the major causes of emigration from Latin America and elsewhere, who have been scenarios of war to the United States, known as the land of opportunity, where the law prevails and offers prospects for progress and freedom.