David Jackson
usatoday.com
April 16, 2014
A year after the Democratic-run Senate approved a comprehensive immigration bill, President Obama on Wednesday urged the Republican-run House to follow suit.
An overhaul of the immigration system “would boost our economy, strengthen our security, and live up to our most closely-held values as a society,” Obama said in a written statement.
Obama noted that the Senate bill had some bipartisan support, and its “commonsense agreement would grow the economy by $1.4 trillion and shrink the deficit by nearly $850 billion over the next two decades.”
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