CNN – It’s time to fix the United States’ “broken immigration system,” President Barack Obama said Thursday, citing bipartisan support to revamp immigration laws.
His speech didn’t reveal anything that hasn’t been said before, but the announcement put the immigration issue back in the spotlight.
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“We’ve kicked this particular can down the road for too long,” Obama said.
Immigration reform was placed on the back burner after the Democratic-controlled Senate passed a bill in June that went nowhere in the House of Representatives. Controlled by Republicans, the House has said it would prefer to undertake a number of smaller bills instead of the one large package passed by the Senate.
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