Senator chides Obama as pressure rises on immigration

Maybe if enough leaders ask the President to work hard on immigrant reform this year, he will do it. - - Donna Poisl

A Democratic leader says the president must treat the overhaul with more urgency. Schumer writes to the Arizona governor, hoping to delay a controversial state law.

By Peter Nicholas, Tribune Washington Bureau

A key Senate Democratic leader said President Obama must treat the immigration crisis with far more urgency, as pressure over the issue intensified across the country Thursday.

Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, an Obama ally and one of a handful of Democratic senators shaping an immigration proposal presented last week, faulted the president for suggesting on Wednesday that an immigration bill won't be finished until 2011 at the earliest.
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