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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