The terrorist attack in Boston may affect immigration reform in the United States

The terrorist attack in Boston could complicate work on immigration reform in the United States, influential Republican Senator Marco Rubio said on Thursday.

“If the events in Boston show that there are problems in our immigration system, then we should take this into account when working on the bill,” he said in an interview with Fox News.

When asked whether after the tragedy in Boston it would become more difficult to agree on the text of a bill to reform the immigration system, the senator answered in the affirmative.

Rubio noted that the new law will have to provide for extremely thorough checks on people who want to settle in the United States.

On April 15, 2013, during the Boston Marathon , two bombs made from pressure cookers exploded near the finish line of the race. Three people died - an eight-year-old boy, a 29-year-old woman and a Boston University student from China. About 180 people were injured.

On April 19, it became known that the suspects in the terrorist attack were Chechens Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who emigrated to the United States. Tamerlan's older brother was killed in a shootout on Friday night; 19-year-old Dzhokhar was detained after a long pursuit . He is in the hospital. He has been charged with organizing a terrorist attack.