Obama Says It’s Up to Republicans to Fix Broken Immigration Laws

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President Barack Obama urged the Republican-led U.S. House to pass changes to immigration law, focusing on an issue that may benefit his party as the flawed rollout of his health-care law hurts his popularity.

“It’s up to Republicans in the House to decide if we can move forward as a country on this bill,” Obama said in a speech today in San Francisco, calling the nation’s immigration system “broken.”