Obama: Undocumented Immigrants ‘Shouldn’t Be Let Off Easily’

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President Obama on Tuesday said that immigrants who came to the United States illegally “shouldn’t be let off easily.”

“Yes, they broke the rules,” Obama said in a statement on immigration reform at the White House. “They didn’t wait their turn. They shouldn’t be let off easily, they shouldn’t be allowed to game the system.”

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