President Barack Obama plans to push Congress to act in the coming months on an ambitious overhaul to immigration laws that would include a path to citizenship for most of the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants, the New York Times reported.

Obama and Senate Democrats will propose the changes in one comprehensive bill, going against Republican efforts to break the overhaul into separate bills addressing young undocmented immigrants, migrant farmworkers and highly-skilled foreigners. The president and his party will also reject measures that do not allow immigrants who gain legal status to become citizens one day, officials said.

Administration officials said Obama could lay out his plan early next month in his State of the Union address.

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The White House will argue that its solution for illegal immigrants is not an amnesty, as many critics insist, because it would include fines, the payment of back taxes and other hurdles for illegal immigrants who would obtain legal status, the officials said.

The president’s plan would also impose nationwide verification of legal status for all newly hired workers; add visas to relieve backlogs and allow highly skilled immigrants to stay; and create some form of guest-worker program to bring in low-wage immigrants in the future.

Latinos, the nation's fastest-growing voting group, cast 71 percent of their votes for Obama in his November reelection win. Many said they were turned off by the Republican party's harsh rhetoric against undocumented immigrants.

 

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