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Obama reaches out to three key Republicans on immigration reform
President Barack Obama discusses the automatic budget cuts scheduled to take effect next week, while in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House complex in Washington February 19, 2013.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged key Republican senators on Tuesday to help produce bipartisan legislation as soon as possible for a sweeping immigration overhaul that includes strengthened border security and an "earned path" to citizenship for illegal immigrants in the United States.
Obama spoke by phone to three U.S. senators, Marco Rubio, John McCain and Lindsey Graham, part of a group of Republican and Democratic lawmakers working on an immigration reform package.
"As the president made clear when he met with Democratic senators involved in the process last week, that while he is pleased with the progress and supportive of the effort to date, he is prepared to submit his own legislation if Congress fails to act," the White House said in a statement.
(Reporting By Matt Spetalnick and Robert Rampton)
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These people contribute to our country, they do work many American workers feel beneath them or too hard, they pay taxes, they are an important part of the economy.
You cannot round up 11-million people and deport them, it is not going to happen… so suck it up and adapt, because they will be staying here and eventually become full citizens….
Don’t believe everything you hear on FOX or from Rush and Beck, they are just pandering to you guys….nothing more and what they is just bunk….
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