Obama will speak on immigration next week in El Paso
By Gary Martin
gmartin@express-news.net
Updated 07:18 p.m., Friday, May 6, 2011

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will use the Texas-Mexico border as a backdrop Tuesday to call yet again on Congress to fix the nation's broken immigration system and address the 11 million immigrants in this country illegally — including 1.6 million in Texas.

Obama is traveling to El Paso, just across the border from violence-wracked Ciudad Juarez, where he will call for massive immigration reform, an initiative that has gotten little leverage in Congress.

“I want to work with Republicans and Democrats to protect our borders, to enforce our laws and also to address the status of millions of undocumented workers,�