BY JULIE PACE, AP WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON -- Seeking swift action on immigration, President Barack Obama on Tuesday will try to rally public support behind his proposals for giving millions of illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship, as well as making improvements to the legal immigration system and border security.
The president will launch his push in a campaign-style event in Las Vegas, a day after a bipartisan group of senators unveiled their own plan for addressing an issue that has languished in Washington for years.
Gay and lesbian advocates are expecting Obama's proposals to include recognition of same-sex couples where one partner is American and another is not.
Sen. John McCain called the issue a "red flag" in an interview Tuesday on "CBS This Morning."
The Arizona Republican also said he didn't think the issue was of "paramount importance at this time."
"We'll have to look at it," McCain said. But he added that the highest priority is finding a "broad consensus" behind the immigration bill already being planned. He said the country must do something about 11 million people "living in the shadows."
I actually knew a couple of gay people who moved to canada because they were international = US couples
one of them was a heart surgeon.
Posted by: Stevemd2 | January 29, 2013 at 01:19 PM