Local petition pushes for protection of immigrants

This petition is to give Guatemalan immigrants protected status after the natural disasters in their country.     - - Donna Poisl

By Amber Parcher / The Daily Item

LYNN — A group of Latin American immigrants have started a petition in Lynn they hope to take all the way to the White House.

The petition asks the federal government to make good on a 2010 request to provide temporary protected status for undocumented Guatemalan immigrants in light of three major storms and earthquakes that have wracked the country over the past two years.

For more information on the petition, or to sign it electronically, visit whitehouse.gov/petitions and click on “Find a petition.”
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