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Obama Renews Dedication to Immigration Reform

Posted September 16, 2010 by Patrick Young, Esq.
Categories: Federal Immigration Policy

Following a meeting with Latino Congressional leaders, President Obama renewed his pledge to work for immigration reform. Obama said:

“Today, the folks who yell the loudest about the federal government’s long failure to fix this problem are some of the same folks standing in the way of good faith efforts to fix it,” Obama said tonight. “To make real progress on these or any issues, we’ve got to break the Republican leadership’s blockade.”

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