Obama might accept immigration bill without help for same-sex couples
President Barack Obama said Friday he might accept a rewrite of the nation’s immigration laws even if it did not allow tens of thousands of same-sex couples to apply for legal status for their foreign-born partners.
Obama, on a visit to Central America in part to tout his support of an immigration overhaul, backs the inclusion for same-sex couples, but would not say if he would veto a bill without it.
“I’m not going to get everything I want in this bill,” he said. “Republicans aren’t going to get everything they want in this bill.”
But, Obama said, the legislation introduced in the Senate “has the opportunity to do something historic that we haven’t done in decades.”
Obama and Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla spoke to reporters in San Jose following a series of private meetings about energy, education and trade.
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