President Obama went to the Texas-Mexico border Tuesday to stump for his "comprehensive" immigration plan, saying it is both "the right thing to do" and "smart for our economy."
"One way to strengthen the middle class in America is to reform the immigration system, so that there is no longer a massive underground economy that exploits a cheap source of labor while depressing wages for everybody else," Obama said in El Paso.
"Immigration reform is an economic imperative," he added.
While touting ongoing improvements to secure the border, Obama again called for an overall immigration bill that would include a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million or so illegal immigrants who are already in the U.S.
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