Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called on Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform this year in a speech to the National Press Club in Washington, DC. He said he took offense at suggestions that immigration might have to take a backseat to debates over gun control and the debt ceiling, arguing that there was time to adress all these issues.
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