Guatemalan president says illegal immigrants in U.S deserve legal protection

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Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom said that ‘his country’s discredited police and justice systems need to be ‘reordered and disciplined’ and that Guatemalan immigrants who are in the United States illegally deserve the same temporary legal protections that have been granted other Central Americans.’ (From the Washington Post report here).

Speaking in a meeting with Washington Post staff during his first visit to the city since his election, Colom said that more than 7,500 Guatemalans were deported from the United States last year.

-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City