Obama to Press for Bipartisan Immigration Bill
By Jennifer Bendery
Roll Call Staff
March 11, 2010, 6:23 p.m.
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Updated: 8:42 p.m.

President Barack Obama on Thursday committed to helping to produce a framework for bipartisan immigration reform legislation by March 21 and vowed to press for Senate action on the issue during a hastily called meeting with grass-roots activists.

Obama met for more than an hour with 10 immigrant advocacy groups who, not by coincidence, are the same groups planning a Washington, D.C., rally to protest the administration’s lack of action on the issue. The rally, which is expected to draw tens of thousands of people, is set for March 21, the same day that the groups are demanding an immigration reform outline from the president.

Clarissa Martinez of the National Council of La Raza said the “unequivocal purposeâ€