Obama Tells El Salvador He's Committed to Amnesty

...The president also sought to reassure El Salvador - which has nearly 2 million of its citizens living in the U.S. - that he's still committed to shepherding comprehensive immigration legislation through Congress, though he acknowledged the politics are tough.

"America is a nation of laws, and it is a nation of immigrants. And so our job is to create secure borders, to make sure that we've got a legal immigration system that is effective and is not frustrating for families, doesn't divide families," he said, citing declining Republican support for a bill that would lay out a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. "My hope is that they begin to recognize over the next year that we can't solve this problem without taking a broad, comprehensive approach."