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Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton released the following statement after President Barack Obama threw his support behind an immigration reform movement on Tuesday.

The statement has not been altered in any way.

"Yesterday and today, national leaders finally are taking a step forward on immigration reform, and I'm incredibly hopeful that we'll find a solution and achieve results. I met with President Obama before his speech and I told him I was proud of him. He encouraged me to keep encouraging our senators to move forward on immigration reform. I look forward to working on a new beginning on immigration, including border security, a pathway to citizenship, the DREAM Act and modernizing our visa system for high-tech companies. I'm optimistic we will find a solution that will power our economy forward with a talented and diverse workforce that makes our city competitive on a global level."

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    Bearman wrote...
    Obama... what a poser.
    Obama would like to make people think that this is something that he came up with. McCain was trying to reform immigration law before Obama was even an elected official. Most will somehow conveniently forget this though. Sheesh...
    Politically incorrect and proud of it.
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    az83 wrote...
    Stanton you are a traitor
    to this country. Instead of focusing on educating and training Americans to fill these positions you want to bring in foreigners to take our jobs. Adding more legal workers is not protecting American workers. This whole thing makes no sense, unless your goal is to strengthen an already strong, overbearing, almost tyrannical government. You are the government our founders warned us about.
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