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Immigration Legislation Dept: Obama told an intimate group of high-dollar donors Thursday he is optimistic immigration legislation can succeed within the next few months, because the impact of the November election is breaking through partisan gridlock, according to Montreal Gazette. It was Obama's most candid assessment yet on the prospects of gun legislation in Congress, an issue he has been pushing since a gunman shot and killed 20 children and six educators in a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school in December and ATHERTON, Calif. - President Barack Obama said Thursday that passing new federal gun control measures will be a tougher slog than immigration reform. "People spoke out through the ballot box," he said. "It's going to be tougher to get the kind of gun legislation to reduce gun violence through the Senate and the House that so many of us, I think, want to see, particularly after the tragedy of Newtown. And I still think it can get done if people are activated and involved." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.