Jeff Bingaman United States Senator from New Mexico

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman today released the following statement after President Obama's immigration speech.

"I believe President Obama's main objective in giving the speech was to restate his strong commitment to comprehensive immigration reform, and to highlight one of the major pieces of unfinished business we need to come to grips with," Bingaman said. "While it would be extremely difficult to pass a bill this year, I hope we can begin to build the bipartisan support we will need for passage in the next congress."