Mexico, Central America Leaders React to Obama's Immigration Actions Rebecca S. Myles - Latin Post
go to original November 24, 2014

U.S. President Barack Obama (3rd L) speaks as President Otto Perez Molina (2nd L) of Guatemala, President Juan Orlando Hernandez (R) of Honduras, and President Salvador Sanchez Ceren (L) of El Salvador listen during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House July 25, 2014 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

President Obama's immigration reform plan will ease the deportation for nearly 5 million immigrants who are in the U.S. without legal documents, and Mexico and Central American leaders have weighed in with praise for his reforms.

Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto hailed the reforms as the "most important measures taken in several decades."

...The majority of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. come from Mexico and Central America.

Central American leaders praised Obama's reform actions but urged U.S. lawmakers to create lasting security to millions of undocumented residents in the U.S. through permanent immigration reform legislation. Obama's executive action is vulnerable to repeal under a new president, and many of the reforms are only effective for two to three years.

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