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Obama begins immigration push with series of meetings

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    Wendell Goler reports from Washington, D.C.

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Give me a busy day at the White House say the -- immigration reform agenda today.

President Obama will have closed door meetings with top business and labor leaders at the White House trying to gain.

Their support for his immigration ideas.

Meanwhile senate majority whip Dick Durbin is part of a bipartisan group of senators who unveiled their own immigration proposal late last not.

To think that eleven million are living among us without documentation.

We need to do something to give them a chance to earn their way to citizenship.

Wendell Goler has more on this from the White House so when all the Democrats at the -- to be a bit skeptical.

About Republicans and they're immigration plan that's big -- right.

-- the proposal from Durbin is group tied to the tighter border security the White House -- warned that can't be an excuse to essentially delays citizenship forever.

In Las Vegas last week mr.

Obama said it has to be clear there is a path.

For illegals to come out of the shadows.

Yesterday Homeland Security secretary Janet Apollo tunnel toward the border at San Diego she said.

They're already been enormous improvements in tightening the border.

Now we have manpower.

Factors that twice -- ten times what we had a few years ago.

Now we have records amount infrastructure building including.

Not just it's a single fencing -- some of the areas of San Diego that double and triple -- The -- -- that illegal border crossing attempt to down 78%.

Since 2000.

-- part of the reason for that of course is the slower US economy which makes this country less attractive for job seekers might have.

And did test that's that big factor -- while and -- thank you so much so.

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