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WASHINGTON, July 2 -- Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif. (46th CD), issued the following statement: Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) has issued the following statement in reaction to President Obama's speech on immigration reform: 'President Obama did not ...

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- The office of Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., issued the following statement: U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) released the following statement on President Obama's speech today regarding immigration reform: 'Instead of trying ...

President Barack Obama delivered yesterday the first major speech on immigration of his 18 months in office, demanding an end to political posturing and calling for a path out of the shadows for 11mn illegal immigrants. Obama said that he is ready to ...

4:05 AM Arizona, Barack Obama, Illegal Aliens, Mason-Dixon Political Research, News, Politics Florida Republican gubernatorial contenders Bill McCollum and Rick Scott have been blasting each other over immigration, but joined together Thursday in ...

WASHINGTON: Hoping to breathe new life into the stalled immigration effort, President Barack Obama on Thursday blamed the delay on.. ...

The clash occurred in a sparsely populated area about 12 miles from the Arizona border - a prime corridor for immigrant and drug smuggling. Sonora's Attorney General's Office said in a statement that nine people were captured by police at the scene of ...

State GOP director says he's just blaming previous administration While President Barack Obama's speech Thursday on comprehensive immigration reform was well received, local immigration advocates said the president didn't go far enough in calling for ...

The president singled out Republicans for blocking previous reform measures, and called on GOP senators to find consensus with Democrats on a practical approach that demands accountability from everyone. "Reform that brings accountability to our ...

President Obamas first major speech on immigration had the eloquence and clarity we have come to expect when he engages a wrenching national debate. In declaring the welcome of strangers a core American value, in placing immigrants at the center of the ...

President Obama blamed Republicans Thursday for the impasse on immigration reform, as he called the new Arizona law divisive and claimed the border was more secure today than at any time in the past 20 years. Republicans responded quickly after Obamas ...

WASHINGTON ? President Obama pressed Congress yesterday to adopt a sweeping plan to fix a ?fundamentally broken?? immigration system, taking on a volatile issue that has inflamed passions in a weak economy heading into the fall midterm campaign. In his ...

Obama calls for bipartisan support of bill not yet introduced in Senate President Barack Obama restated his principles for comprehensive immigration reform Thursday at a speech at the American University in Washington, DC, calling on Republicans in ...

MS. MITCHELL: We are joined now by the governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, who knows more about this issue than a lot of our other guests. So Governor, good to see you. From your perspective in the Southwest, you really see all of those competing ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama urged Democrats and Republicans in Congress yesterday to begin work on legislation to fix America's "broken and dangerous" immigration system, endorsing a plan that would provide illegal residents a path to U.S. ...

Tags: Barack Obama, health care, hiring workers, Immigration reform The US President, Mr Barack Obama, has renewed his push for comprehensive immigration reform, his third major domestic priority after health care and financial reforms, highlighting the ...

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UNITED States (U.S.) President Barack Obama has given new momentum behind the push for an immigration overhaul by explaining why he thought a comprehensive approach was the only way to fix what he and others said was a system badly in need of repair. ...

In his first major speech on the issue since taking office, President Barack Obama said that the US immigration system 'offends our most basic American values' and blamed Republican opposition for thwarting critically needed change. It was the third time ...

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Thursday pledged to fix the 'broken' immigration system of America to make it easier for the best and the brightest of the people to enter the country, that has nearly 11 million illegal immigrants. In his first ...

(By William Douglas, McClatchy Newspapers) President Barack Obama on Thursday once again urged Congress to tackle comprehensive legislation to overhaul immigration law, citing the urgency of Arizona passing its own punitive statute in the absence of ...