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Honduran President: We sent the U.S. ‘the best immigrants’

By Joel Gehrke
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Honduran President: We sent the U.S. ‘the best immigrants’

Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández on Thursday urged U.S. leaders to extend legal status to citizens of his country who live and work in the United States, and said transplants from Honduras are the “best” immigrants the U.S. could ask for.

“We recognize that it’s a sovereign decision of the U.S., but we see also how troubled our compatriots are,” Hernández told reporters at a diplomatic conference in Miami.

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