Obama, Evangelical Leaders Discuss Immigration Overhaul

Jared A. Favole of The Wall Street Journal reports, “President Barack Obama met with evangelical leaders at the White House Tuesday to discuss overhauling the immigration system, part of an effort to keep pressure on Congress to act.” The oval office meeting included leaders from several different faiths including Russell Moore from the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Church and Noel Castellanos of the Christian Development Association. Obama’s spokesman, Jay Carney, said, “Today’s meeting that the president had with faith leaders demonstrates and reinforces the fact that there is a broad, unusually broad, coalition that supports that effort, that supports comprehensive immigration reform.”

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