Obama renews push on immigration reform
President Barack Obama's prospects for a sweeping legislative victory this year now rest almost solely on the immigration overhaul working its way through Congress. Obama signaled during a White House news conference Tuesday that he's backing a bill drafted by the Senate's bipartisan group of four Democrats and four Republicans.
The bill would strengthen border security, allow tens of thousands of new high- and low-skilled workers into the country, require all employers to check their workers' legal status and provide an eventual path to citizenship for some 11 million immigrants now in the US illegally. (AP)
