President Obama spoke today about the need for comprehensive immigration reform, arguing that “immigrants have always helped to build and defend this country” and that “being an American is not a matter of blood or birth. It’s a matter of faith.”Speaking from Washington, D.C., Obama sounded many familiar points, and said that though “some have rallied behind” Arizona’s controversial immigration policy, it is “ill-conceived.”
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