President Obama claims immigration reform blocked by Republicans

President Barack Obama Says votes are there to pass the immigration reform legislation if GOP wants to

President Barack Obama has claimed that internal Republican politics is delaying an immigration reform bill arriving on his desk.

The bill, if passed, would make 50,000 undocumented Irish legal in the US.



The Bill provides for a 13-year path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million unauthorised immigrants living and working in the US.








In June, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Eamon Gilmore said the Immigration Bill passed by the US Senate was “a positive development”and was a step closer towards addressing the problems faced by undocumented Irish emigrants in the US and “allowing them to emerge from the shadows.”

In July he travelled to Washington DC for two days to lobby politicians on Capitol Hill on immigration reform.