Statement by President Obama on Senate Proposal Outlined Today to Fix Our Nation’s Broken Immigration System

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2010.

“It is the federal government’s responsibility to enforce the law and secure our borders, as well as to set clear rules and priorities for future immigration. The continued failure of the federal government to fix the broken immigration system will leave the door open to a patchwork of actions at the state and local level that are inconsistent and as we have seen recently, often misguided.

The proposal outlined today in…