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Obama urges Congress to act on immigration plan
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Published: June 26, 2009
WASHINGTON -- President Obama told a bipartisan group of legislators yesterday that Congress should begin debating a comprehensive immigration plan by year's end or early next year, but Republicans said they would support a bill only if it included an expansion of guest-worker programs.
In the State Dining Room, Obama met with about 30 legislators for the first substantial discussion on immigration since he took office. Obama named a group to work with Congress that will be led by the homeland security secretary, Janet Napolitano, the former governor of Arizona.
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