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Obama to Meet with Hispanic Pols to Talk Immigration

By Elizabeth Llorente

Published November 15 2010
Preseident Barack Obama and Sen. Robert Menéndez

Sen. Robert Menéndez and other members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus will be meeting with President Obama this afternoon to discuss the need for comprehensive immigration reform and the Dream Act.

Menéndez said in a text message to Fox News Latino this morning that he and Reps. Nydia Velázquez, D-NY and Luis Gutiérrez, D-Ill, will meet with the president at 2:45 p.m. to discuss immigration.

Soon after Democrats lost control of the House of Representatives in the mid-term elections, Menéndez, a New Jersey Democrat, has stressed that the likelihood is small that the new Congress will pass immigration reform legislation that would provide illegal immigrants who meet certain criteria with a path to legalization.

He says that the only chance that legislation could pass that would give illegal immigrants an opportunity to legalize their status would be to take a bill up now, during the lame duck session.

A White House official said the meeting between the Hispanic lawmakers and Obama “will be an opportunity to discuss DREAM Act and Comprehensive Immigration Reform.â€