Posted on May 24, 2010

First Lady Tells Illegal Immigrant’s Daughter That U.S. Must ‘Fix’ System

Michael O’Brien, The Hill, May 19, 2010

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During a trip to an elementary school in Silver Spring, Md., with the first lady of Mexico, Margarita Zavala, Obama took questions from one young girl who said that she had heard “that Barack Obama is taking everybody away that doesn’t have papers,” adding later that her mom lacks such paperwork.

“We have to work on that. We have to make sure that people can be here and get the right kind of papers; that’s exactly right,” Obama responded. “We have to work on that. We have to fix that.”

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