Boston Events Shouldn’t Delay Immigration, Senators Say

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Efforts to rewrite U.S. immigration law shouldn’t be derailed by the Boston Marathon bombings in which two immigrants are suspected, several senators said today.

People shouldn’t “jump to conclusions” and “conflate” the events in Boston with the immigration proposal, Senator Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, said at a hearing on the plan today in Washington.