Senator Schumer promises immigration reform at ILIR event in New York

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Senator Charles Schumer with ILIR President Ciaran Staunton

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Schumer told the story of how, during Senator Kennedy’s illness in November, 2009, he had been invited down to the family’s Hyannis Port compound for some lunch and perhaps sailing.
 
Being too windy to sail, Ted Kennedy invited Schumer into his brother, John F Kennedy’s small house on the family compound. Senator Kennedy spent four hours showing Schumer family memorabilia dating form their ancestral home in County Wexford to present day.
 
Senator Schumer saw this moment as a passing of the torch. 

“He was a great man. He asked me to continue his work, to take on the job that he had started. He tilled the fields and we’ll finish the job. This is for Ted Kennedy, for his legacy and finishing the job he started." he said.
 

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