Obama: Republican Rival Mitt Romney

Obama Dept: 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. Obama carried Nevada, a political battleground, in large part because of support from Hispanics in the state, according to Montreal Gazette. The simultaneous immigration campaigns were spurred by the November presidential election, in which Obama won more than 70 per cent of the Hispanic vote nationally, giving him a key advantage over Republican rival Mitt Romney. The results caused Republican lawmakers who had previously opposed immigration reform to reconsider in order to rebuild the party's reputation among Hispanics, an increasingly powerful political force and wASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Tuesday will try to rally public support behind his proposals for a far-reaching immigration overhaul that would give millions of illegal immigrants a pathway to U.S. citizenship, as well as make improvements to the legal immigration system and border security. Administration officials said Obama would largely endorse the senators' efforts, though immigration advocates said they expected the president's own proposals to be more progressive than those put forth by the Senate group, including a faster pathway to citizenship. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.