Politico ^ | 5/3/11 | Carrie Budoff Brown
Posted on Tuesday, May 03, 2011 2:58:17 PM by markomalley
President Barack Obama is ramping up his push to overhaul the country’s immigration system, launching a sustained personal campaign to pressure Congress into taking up the controversial issue that will rely in part on recruiting outside help.
“He is committed and will be leaning into this issue in a very serious and very vigorous way,” Melody Barnes, director of the Domestic Policy Council, said Tuesday at a briefing for a small group of reporters. “We are upping the intensity on this issue.”
Barnes and Cecilia Munoz, the White House director of intergovernmental affairs, detailed a strategy of pressuring Congress from the outside by deploying Cabinet members, senior staff and business, labor and groups to make the case.
The administration took a similar approach ahead of a surprisingly close Senate vote late last year on the Dream Act, which would have provided a path to citizenship for young illegal immigrants who were brought to the country as children.
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