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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says "the moment is now" for Congress to act to overhaul the nation's broken immigration laws.

Obama spoke at a White House event hours before the full Senate holds its first votes on a landmark bill. The legislation would create a path to citizenship for many of the 11 million people in the U.S. legally.

The president says the Senate bill isn't perfect and no one will get everything they want. He says the bill would be a massive investment in border security and would give employers a reliable way to check whether those they're hiring are in the country legally.

Obama also says the pathway to citizenship offered in the bill would be "no cakewalk" for those already in the country illegally.


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    The Chemist wrote...
    US Presidents have always used
    June 15, 2012 8:16 am
    Executive Orders to push ahead their agenda. Or...you folks forgot that Lincoln suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus and issued the Emancipation Proclamation WITH OUT Congress approval?
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    Minuteman wrote...
    Now they have the names
    June 15, 2012 9:56 am
    of the children..Finding and deporting their parents should be easy..Trading one for the other. Divided nation mr President..Why have an immigration policy when your just going to ignore it?
    Protect our borders and our communities
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    Japricka_Joe wrote...
    WEAK...
    June 15, 2012 10:04 am
    Obama is WEAK........ I know that if we dug up George Washington & Abraham Lincoln, they would both be found on their stomachs. They may have rolled over several times in the last 4 years.
    J.Joey
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    Steve wrote...
    Flashback
    June 15, 2012 10:12 am
    For years the administration had said it didn’t have the authority to make such a move, saying it couldn’t decide to stop deporting wide categories of people on its own without approval from Congress.
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    Larry in Glendale wrote...
    What a coincidence
    June 15, 2012 10:39 am
    That this announcement comes just in time for campaign season.
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    icyou wrote...
    Obama
    June 15, 2012 10:43 am
    you are so fired!!!!!
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    Steve wrote...
    Enjoyed the Heckler
    June 15, 2012 11:07 am
    .
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    The Chemist wrote...
    @ Steve
    June 15, 2012 12:32 pm
    Sure you enjoyed the heckler. Imbeciles that that individual go in line with your level of education and civility. Again...how many times were you kicked out of school for being disruptive? How many times did you get your face kicked in on the playground for being a pest? Again?
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    Michoacan wrote...
    A wise decision by the President.
    June 15, 2012 12:37 pm
    Obama knows very well that Republicans will block any effort at sensible immigration reform by claiming that they must see some unachievable "securing of the border" first. Any Republican who now says that this mini-Dream Act should wait to be part of a broader reform package is lying through their teeth. My bet is that Romney would have proposed something similar as part of his campaign package. Repubs are pizzed that Obama took away a possible lure for Hispanic votes.
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    wrote...
    Aren't any of you people ashamed
    June 15, 2012 12:45 pm
    This country was built and put together to make us a country with morals, strength and fiber beyond anything the world has seen before, yet, we continually take it apart, take apart certain segments of the populace and or take apart the opposing party. When Repbulicans were in charge...hate was shot at them...now that Democrats have a little more say with Obama as President...hate is shot at them and their policies.

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