President Barack Obama said Tuesday that an immigration bill without a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants is “not who we are as Americans,” arguing that the GOP-led House should move comprehensive immigration legislation rather than the step-by-step approach favored by most House Republicans.
Asked in an interview with a Telemundo-owned Denver TV station whether he could agree with a bill that does not contain a path to citizenship, Obama said that failing to address the issue of an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the legislation “does not make sense.”
"It does not make sense to me if we're going to make this once-in-a-generation effort to finally fix the system to leave the status of 11 million people or so unresolved,” he said. “And certainly for us to have two classes of people in this country, full citizens and people who are permanently resigned to a lower status, I think that's not who we are as Americans. That's never been our tradition.”
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