The White House on Monday acknowledged that immigration reform is unlikely to move in Congress this year.
“I can see the president’s desire for it to happen but understanding that currently where we sit the math makes that real difficult,” said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
Obama will meet with a bipartisan group of lawmakers Thursday. Gibbs added that Obama hopes that “later this year that we can have the beginning of formal debate on that. Obama has consistently put other priorities ahead of an immigration bill.
Since 2010 is the mid-term election year it's highly unlikely the Democrats would bring Comprehensive Immigration Reform to the table. So we're looking at 2011 at the earliest ...
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