The president's turn for immigration reform

Latinos and immigrants participate in a rally on immigration reform in front of the White House on November 8,??

One week into his second term, President Barack Obama will unveil his vision for immigration reform in a speech Tuesday in Las Vegas.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said Monday that Obama's speech at Del Sol High School will be about "engaging" the American people on the topic of reform, which Obama has vowed to push through Congress this year. Administration officials said Obama will go into more detail than before about what he wants the bill to look like and will stress that any legislation must contain a clear path to citizenship for most of the country's 11 million unauthorized immigrants. Such a bill may even be in reach as a demographically challenged Republican Party seeks to win over Hispanic voters. Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh commented on his show Monday that "I don't think there's any Republican opposition to this of any majority consequence or size."

Carney wouldn't say at a briefing Monday whether Obama would be willing to endorse the blueprint for reform released that afternoon by a working group of bipartisan senators. The senators preempted Obama's speech by a day and released a blueprint that differs from Obama's earlier immigration proposal in some respects. Both Obama and the senators agree that the nation's illegal immigrants should be given a chance to legalize and eventually become citizens if they meet certain conditions, but the senators' bill includes a spate of border security requirements that must go into effect before the immigrants are eligible for a green card.

Leaders in the Republican-controlled House have not released a significant blueprint or proposal.

The president will not release a draft of an immigration reform bill while Congress is making progress on their own proposals, administration officials say.

"[Obama] will continue a conversation with the American people about how we need to move forward and why we need to move forward with comprehensive immigration reform, why it?s important," Carney said of the president's speech. "It?s something that he talked about a lot during the campaign; he campaigned on this."

Watch Obama's remarks here in our livestream at 2:55 p.m. EST.

--Olivier Knox contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-announce-immigration-reform-plan-las-vegas-113806207--election.html

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