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‘Many South Down families closely watching US immigration developments’ – Rogers

As the immigration debate in the United States reaches yet another critical stage many parents in South Down will share the anxious days that their undocumented family members in the USA are about to endure.

Explaining the current situation in America SDLP Assembly Member Sean Rogers said, “It is expected that the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill will be presented to Congress within the coming weeks.

“The Bill has been prepared by an eight strong committee comprising four members from the Democratic Party and four members from the Republican Party known in political circles as the Gang of 8.

South Down MLA continued, “Whilst there is yet another degree of optimism regarding the success of the Bill our immigrants are conscious that those on Capitol Hill opposed to immigration reform are a very powerful body and they will, as they did before, do all in their power to fend off the Bill.

“All of us interested in what is happening in Washington will take a little encouragement from the fact that the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Sen. Patrick J. Leahy is pushing the Gang of 8 to make urgent progress on the issue.

“The Vermont Democratic Senator has stressed the need for the debates to get started without delay and he did express the view that if action is not taken quickly and decisively America will lose the opportunity it now has to fix its flawed immigration system.

“People might not be fully aware of the huge number of local families that are closely following the US Immigration saga. There is not a parish in South Down and I’m sure that goes for other areas throughout Ireland that has not suffered great numerical losses in recent years due to immigration.

Rogers added, “The anti immigration measures currently in situ has reduced the numbers going to America which is the most popular destination of all. On behalf of the ‘Undocumented Irish’ in the USA and their families back home in Ireland I sincerely hope that an acceptable resolution is reached this time round.”

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