Immigration reform may not be easy to pass, but that’s no reason to give up the fight, President Barack Obama said last Thursday in his White House speech.
The president made his long-awaited return to the issue in a brief White House speech urging advocates to keep the pressure on House Republicans to take action on the Senate’s immigration bill, saying that only public pressure will lead to action.
Obama said: “Just because something is smart and fair and good for the economy and fiscally responsible and supported by business and labor and evangelical community and many Democrats and many Republicans, that does not mean that it will actually get done,” Obama said. “This is Washington, after all.”