Immigration experts applaud first steps in D.C. toward reform
Photo credit: Faye Murman | Margarita Saravia, 38, of Dobbs Ferry, hugs her tutor, Tom Pettit, of Dobbs Ferry, as Robin Larkins, director of Cabrini Immigrant Services in Dobbs Ferry, looks on. Saravia, originally from Mexico, will be sworn in as a U.S. citizen Feb. 6 in White Plains. (Jan. 28, 2013)
The bipartisan approach to immigration reform unveiled Monday in Washington is a major step to the systemic overhaul that noncitizens and concerned Americans have been seeking desperately for years, said Hudson Valley immigration advocates.
"It looks like what is being proposed now is a comprehensive approach," said Robin Larkins, director of Cabrini Immigrant Services, a Dobbs Ferry nonprofit...
